TECHdodo

I was using my PC today when HP prompted me that I needed to install an update for my printer. The first annoying thing it did was shut down the PC autmatically when it was finished. It didn’t give me any warning or ability to delay until later. All of a sudden it shut down [...]

Windows can be such a pain. Really it can. A month or so ago I had my hard drive fail on an old desktop PC. I restored the original OEM disks onto a new hard drive. It was old enough that it actually came with discs, imagine that. Well, I don’t use that system too [...]

I wanted to see how DVD playback worked on the lt2005u netbook I recently purchased. I don’t have an external USB dvd drive to test it out with, so what I did was share the DVD drive of my desktop PC over my home network. Then, I stuck in a DVD and tried to play [...]

With Windows 7 being released this week, it got me thinking about netbooks and Linux and Windows 7. When netbooks first started being made, Vista was coming out and netbooks just couldn’t handle Vista. Microsoft was phasing out XP and telling everyone they were going to have to use Vista instead. If Microsoft had their [...]

Today I finished the clean install of Windows. Hours of downloading, and more reboots than I can remember and the system is up to date. The last thing I needed was antivirus software. I think I can get McAfee through my ISP, but I thought I would see how the free antivirus programs were doing [...]