I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what is the best option when ordering cable Internet for you home. Is there a difference owning the cable modem as oppose to renting the model the Internet provider provides for an extra fee on the bill? Just wondering.

Believe it or not this is not another "Vista sucks" rant. Sure, my experience with Vista, so far, has not been perfect but not to that point. I am, so far, actually quite pleased with Vista. I have had a couple of issues with some games that won't work but I'm sure I will find a version that does. It just a matter of doing the research online.   So, down to business. This is my baby, an HP Pavillion dv9740us. Here are the specs;   PC Wizard 2008 Version 1.82 ---------------------...

I just bought a Linksys wireless router but no matter how I follow the instruction I can connect both wireless laptops but can get Internet on them Help please. Thanks in advance.

Well now you can. Introducing Windows Vista SP1 toilet paper. Now you can actually take Windows Vista and wipe your behind with it, you can crush it, burn it, flush it and even blow your nose with it. According to Tomshardware.com, this baby is a quality 3 ply toilet paper with all of Vistas features on it. The only problem is it is written in Japanese Kanji so have fun trying to translate it while cleaning your behind. Then again you could always kill two birds with one stone if so...

I have 2 things I would like to know about Vista. I have Windows Vista Home Premium on a HP Pavilion Laptop witha 1.66 Dual core Pentium M and 3 gigs memory. 1st question is a problem. Every time I start up my wife's laptop Internet explorer runs and opens a blank page that turns the entire screen white. I either have to hit the windows button on the keyboard to be able to see the taskbar and right click it to close it or runs task manager and close it from there. Any ideas as to why? I have ...

I think portable apps are the best thing ever created, especially for a person like me. Due to restrictions and company policies, I am not allowed to install any kind of software onto my work PC. Hell, I can’t even update the dam thing. Luckily I got myself a Sandisk 4GB Cruzer Micro with U3 software. This baby allows for software to be installed directly inside the memory stick without the need for it to be installed directly onto any PC. This is great such as if you need a word processin...

Hey all, I have an HP Pavillion Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium, fairly new. I like reinstalling Windows every so often on my PCs, it's nice to have a fresh install of the OS and software and I enjoy learning new stuff in the process. With my new laptop I simply need to restore to factory settings and install my software. But now I have a small but annoying issue and was hoping someone here could shed some light on it. I have a WD 500 GB hard drive from my old PC that I turned into...

OK, so I have this 250 GB Western Digital Passport portable hard drive that I replaced my Sandisk Cruser 4 GB memory stick with. My memory stick has the U3 software allowing me to carry portable software I can not install on my job PC. I like using Firefox and all its featured compared to IE6. Here's my problem. I installed the Portable Apps Suite onto my WD portable drive since it basically works just like the U3 software on my Sandisk Cruser. I did this cause my drive was 250 GB compared t...

OK this is the deal. I have 2 HP laptops. Both laptops have Windows Vista Home Premium. My laptop is connected directly to the linksys wireless router thru the cable. My wifes laptop is set up as wireless in our bedroom. I have a 500 GB external hard drive that connects via USB to my laptop. I want to be able to share the external hard drive to my wifes laptop. We are both on the same network and can see each others PCs. She can not access mine but I can access hers with a password. Can someo...

OK, I need some help from our local JU geeksquad (that's all you people who know a lot more about computers than I do). I am currently experimenting with PCLinuxOS. I have never used any other OS besides Windows but am curious to expand my PC knowledge and keep some open ption in case of future OS issues. Now, I have heard many times before how a Linux server is much better than a Windows server when it comes to have a home network. I currently have 3 PC's at home that currently share interne...

I don't know why but all of a sudden joeuser.com has shrunk on me and it's very annoying. The only thing I can remember doing was cutting and pasting and all of a sudden the web page would shrink. First it was the home page, then individual articles, now all the pages look shrunk. I did notice the pages were not showing to well (not organized as before with the different web page sections all over the screen rather than ther way they were before) ever since I saw the article about the site being...

I have Vista Home Premium and I was wondering if it's possible to change some of the folders on the Start Menu since there are some I don't actually use. Using the image above as a reference, please look at the part of the Start Menu where the Document folder is. In that section there are 6 icons from the Document folder to the My Computer icon. I would like to be able to exchange the Games icon folder for the Video icon folder. I don't use the Games folder but I do use the Video folder...

OK, so I have seen a few articles about dual booting XP on a Vista PC. I have also seen tons of websites with info on this but they all seem so confusing and they don't all seem similar so I can't get specific ways to do it. I would simply like a link to a site that explains how to dual boot XP on my laptop. Vista can sometimes be very slow on my laptop even with dual processors, 3 gigs of memory, an 8600 nVidia card and 360 GB of space. I just hope XP works better on it, I would like to play...

Hey all, I have an HP Pavillion laptop, fairly new, with 2 160 GD hard drives and would like to replace the main drive with a bigger and faster drive, maybe a 500 GB WD 72,000 RPM. My question is this: My computer has the extra hard drive with the back-up to my Windows Vista that allows me to restore the computer to it's factory settings. Is there a way to transfer all of this to a new, bigger hard drive? Basically, I wanna keep the computer the way it is, but just with a bigger and faster...

So I came across IslandDogs article PC Magazine's Best Free Software of '09 where he talks about how Stardock's ObjectDock was the second best freeware. Congrats Stardock, Objectdock (free version) is the best program I have installed on my PC at this moment, look forward to the Plus version as soon as I am able to afford it. I decided to check out the PC Magazine article to see what other cool, and free, software was listed. I came across this program called Zoundry Raven v1.0.375, a blog edi...