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Enclosures with fans are good, as long as you check the fans from time-to-time. One of my pet whinges is that suppliers tend to use cheap sleeve-bearing fans which seize up after a while (often...

I use 8 WD MyBook drives (from 0.5TB to 2TB) and have never had a failure. Had a couple of warnings after power outages, but these have always been recoverable. I also have 2 Freecom Toughdrives...

It may seem a bit off the wall, but I had a similar problem with an XP PC that was caused by a faulty PSU: the load of the DVD drive caused the power rail to go out of spec and the PC rebooted. The...

It seems that my password was changed/corrupted, as I could not log in:(. Fortunately the reset password system worked flawlessly:).

It is (technically) possible to use just two of the four pairs in a Cat-5 cable to transmit 100Mbps Ethernet - hence you can get two independent Ethernet signals down a single cable. You have two...

It's not so much the number of restarts: it's the mechanism. If you let Windoze shut itself down then restart, you'll (usually) be fine. If you get impatient and hit the power button/pull the plug...

I suspect that these are temporary files created during application installs/updates. They are probably images of Registry entries (if you search your registry you may find lots of them e.g. in...

Although your problem is most likely blocking caused by the mobile phone mast, there are other possibilities. Any device that uses the 2.4GHz band (such as "microwave ovens, security cameras, ZigBee...

Unfortunately, high-power transmissions can block lower-power signals (such as wi-fi) even if they're on a different frequency. Either the signals or a sideband of them are in-band and cause the...

There's a lot of BS talked about static. Generally, friction-generated static is not a problem with a properly assembled PC: It's mostly a danger to disconnected boards and components. I've...

Great article, shame about the links...

I've had all sorts of problems with PC fans seizing up: CPU and video cards failing, PC mysteriously freezing or re-booting. The groaning sound is typical of a fan that's on its way out due to a...

1) It is possible to connect to the 'secure' network if the owner failed to set a password. Bit pointless securing it, really...

2) You can normally set an option in your wireless software to...

Open DNS is only really useful against non-Internet-savvy users. Anyone with Admin access to the Windoze/Linux system settings can bypass it. My advice is to set up all the blocking you can at...

Oh, and another thing...

If you used to use your desktop as your Internet connection (with a usb modem, for instance) do your laptops have the desktop set up as their default gateway (check your...

A number of questions about your router settings:
1) Do you have a DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) server set up on your router or do you use fixed IP addressing? If you use fixed IP...