March 6, 2008
Your contributions help us sponsor needy kids
One thing that editor-at-large Fred Langa and I agree on is that it's important to help disadvantaged people around the world. Ever since the LangaList newsletter and Windows Secrets merged in November 2006, we've continued to sponsor children in developing countries with a portion of your contributions — we just haven't taken the time to write about it. Read more »
Get yourself an XP system while you still can
With Windows XP scheduled to disappear from store shelves on June 30, time is running out to buy a computer with that venerable OS preinstalled. As manufacturers stop producing XP drivers, finding hardware that still supports XP is becoming a challenge, but I've produced one last shopping guide for you before the clock runs out. Read more »
Sizing up your boot drive's pagefile
My Feb. 28 article discussed ways to save space on your Windows drive when you have multiple hard drives or partitions. You can save even more space by shrinking the Windows pagefile on the boot disk, as long as you don't care about preserving some complex debugging data. Read more »
The art of water-balloon tossing
What was it about throwing water balloons as a kid that was so appealing? Throwing them at each other, your pets, moving cars. It was thrilling! Would it explode? How would your target react? Not to mention the ever-pressing question of how full could you actually get your balloon. Read more »
Hackers broke into my site — yours might be next
Last week, somebody using a Russian Internet address stuck a line of unwanted HTML code — an iFrame exploit — on the AskWoody.com main page, and my life suddenly got very complicated. It could happen to you: once the province of propeller heads and tech terrorists, hacking Web sites has become as easy as running a kiddie script. Read more »
Use Process Monitor to find hidden information
I'm finishing my Process Monitor (PM) series with a couple of examples of the kinds of behind-the-scenes information you can get by using it. Remember that the best feature of PM is that it catches transitory events that you might never see, even if you time things perfectly with some tool that only shows you your PC's current state. Read more »
