Unable to Write to Flash Drive

Jerome Safer wrote recently about a problem with his USB flash drive: Terry, I have a 4GB USB flash drive I am trying to use in my USB 2.0 port on the front of my Compaq Presario computer. When I try to save something to it I get a message "I don’t have authorization for [...]

Virtual Memory & When You Need More Real Computer Memory

Memory, Virtual Memory, and where can you get memory to add (hint: Crucial Technology). New subscriber Yogesh Anand wrote to ask: Hi, This is Yogesh Anand and I just have registered myself on your website and have a query if I could any solution for this, my query is :-Its about "virtual memory" We all [...]

SD Card Vanishes – Computer No Longer Finds SD Card

Subscriber David McCartney wrote to ask about a problem he experienced using an SD memory card in his Windows Vista computer: Hello Terry David McCartney again with another problem. When I boot my laptop I am able to recognise the sd card as another drive letter, however if I remove the sd card and replace [...]

SD Memory Card Not Recognized When Inserted into Computer

I had a question this week about a flash drive problem. Well, it wasn’t really a flash drive — it was an SD card from a camera… but the symptoms and the procedures are the same. In this case, a family member had taken some pictures with her camera and then removed the SD memory [...]

Is your computer slow?

If your anti-virus and anti-spyware are up to date (your ARE running both, aren’t you?), the problem usually falls into one or both of these categories: There are too many slightly-valuable programs running all the time Not enough RAM — not enough physical memory in your computer WinPatrol and WinPatrol Plus can help you control [...]

PC Getting Slower? Add More Memory

One of the real challenges in the PC world is keeping up with the program changes. I’m not talking about staying current on your updates, although that is a problem, too. I’m talking about still having enough computer power and memory to be able to use the computer, after all the bloated “upgrades” and “updates” [...]

Computer Loads Up and Slows Down

Subscriber Ross wrote about his computer slowing down: Help please. My computer loads up from visited sites. I clear history and all other things but still loaded up, very much. I deal with geneology. I save everything to external media. Help. Ross I had to responsd to Ross that I didn’t understand his problem. I [...]

Firefox (and other programs) on Drive C:

Reader Ian Hulland from the Island of Malta wrote to say: Hi Terry, I had wanted to try Firefox for years, but it simply refuses to install. I contacted them at Mozilla / Firefox fora, but never had any replies. ( I use Thunderbird quite happily too !) It seems Firefox either doesn’t like my [...]