Did you know when you do a clean install of Vista it doesn’t erase all your useful stuff like documents and program files? That’s crazy, mostly because you’d think a clean install would be clean, but way useful. Your system is technically clean, just with a really big folder with a bunch of junk in [...]

After my sound driver breaking (and I’ve tried every other driver I can get my hands on), MS Word breaking, OneNote Printer dissapearing, and a few other weird things after upgrading to Vista (yes, I upgraded instead of doing a fresh install), it’s time to clean house. I think it was viewing all the squeaky clean [...]

That’s precisely what I did last Thursday, and it wasn’t a happy experience. When everything you do revolves around what’s on your computer or the internet (OK, that’s a little sad, but what can I say), not having your computer can put you at a loss. So what’s a student to do?

1. Know where the [...]

Week four was fraught with frustration, mostly involving OneNote 12 crashing in the middle of Calc class. I ended up using Journal and then copy and pasting my Ink back into OneNote. The price of beta testing I guess.

This week was better though, I ran the Office 12 checkup utility and while it didn’t say [...]

NetDrive is a very neat application that lets you add an FTP location as a letter drive. Just download NetDrive and off you go! Now some of you may have noticed that Windows already provides a feature very similar to this. In fact, Windows does, however, it is also a very cluncky service and does [...]

With the holidays upon us and with most students inbetween semesters, right now is a great time to either refine or create a back-up strategy for the new year. I highly, highly suggest heading over to TabletPCBuzz.com to take a look at their “Back-up Strategies and Tools” thread that has several ideas to pull from. [...]