I plan to take mine apart, use the HDD (300GB) in an portable external box, replacing my current 80GB unit. I'll copy over all the data to...
I have one of the early Kindles and love it. We travel a lot in our motorhome, and taking the 8-ounce Kindle sure beats hauling a 100 pounds of...
Convenience, mainly, so I don't have to log in and out of each mail box frequently. I can just switch between browsers, as they're both up. I'd...
I have both IE and Chrome on my computer. We have two e-mail addresses, one for personal messages and one for on-line shopping and non-family...
Pete: That Arris device is a combination router, modem and telephony gateway. My desktop is wired to it by an Ethernet cable, the phone system by...
I have Xfinity bundled service with ISP and land-line phone going through an Arris TG862 modem. I use both IE8 and Google Chrome as browsers....
Pete: Boot-up to the desktop is fairly quick, unless it hangs up before the icons appear or the task bar doesn't show. Either of those needs a...
There is a Microsoft program that will test your system to see if it can handle Windows 7. It was in a post from one of the administrators here a...
As I said a while back, I can't imagine why MS is abandoning all the medical facilities that have XP. I had cardiac surgery in 2011 and every...
It's never been faster than 10 minutes boot-up, Evan, even when it was fairly new. My wife's ASUS netbook (which was also XP and has been replaced...
Well, that's a surprise, Neil. I was sure it pre-dated the purchase of our '03 Kia Sedona by at least 3 years. Incidentally, I have an eMachines...
I still run XP and really can't afford to go out and get a new computer. I have only just enough capability to run Win 7, and I think I'll be...
My last new car was in 2003. My computer is maybe three years older than that. In my last post, I said it was 10 years old, but thinking back, I...
Yes it does. I can understand why Alan Mullally said a few days ago that he had "No interest whatever in coming to Microsoft" and will...
I took DW's iPad to our local library, which has a wi-fi facility. I was surprised to find that it couldn't log in there either - same "could not...
Thanks, Tony, I'll try that this morning. I'm not quite sure what's going on with wi-fi. I'm not familiar with the iPad way of doing business,...
Buzzmag: I still have a Belkin wifi router from the system we had before the TG862 arrived. It has an RJ45 ethernet output and the TG862 has four...
A few months ago, Xfinity/Comcast offered a no-cost replacement of the existing modem with the TG862. It was rated about 10x faster and included a...
Gordon: I'm coming around to the possibility of buying an HP machine, since they are selling them with Win 7. Whether a desk-top or a lap-top is...
We shut down both my PC and DW's iPad every night when were done for the day. I don't want to risk Internet outlaws getting into our stuff while...
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