Why report all your program crashes to Microsoft? It isn’t like they are going to provide you with an immediate fix for the crash. The best you can hope for is that your crash report is similar to a huge number of other reports that they receive and that they will therefore consider a fix [...]

Wondering how many words there are in that article that you wrote? Before computers the word count on articles used to be estimated by counting the number of characters in an average line, dividing that by an expected number of letters in a typical word, and then multiplying that by the number of lines. That [...]

Plenty of hype everywhere I look the last few days about a new browser that Google is developing which they call Chrome. The browser is only at the first beta stage at the moment which puts it a lot further from final release that IE8 (which reached second beta a few weeks ago).
The hype seems [...]

Word Processing programs have come a long way sinced the early days and modern word processors such as Microsoft Word contain features that used to only be found in Desktop Publishing programs. Character spacing and Kerning is one of the options that Word supports, which will allow you to adjust the gap left between the [...]

Windows XP was shipped with two web browsers from Microsoft. Internet Explorer 6 is the one everyone knows about while almost no one even realises that MSN Explorer is there. This “hidden” web browser can be removed from your computer to free up resources and increase the security of your computer.
Removing MSN Explorer from Windows [...]

And now for something that is both new and on a completely different topic from the other new material this week. Today’s article is about the object tag which is supposed to be the way that you embed other content such as video, sound, images, and other HTML files etc into your web page instead [...]

Star Office and Open Office (which is what the free version is now called) can easily process Microsoft Word documents almost as well as Word itself can. It also has the advantage of running on operating systems that Word itself doesn’t support. This makes Open Office the ideal choice of office suite software for anyone [...]

I would have thought that everyone would have upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP by now given that it is now several years since Microsoft dropped support for that old DOS antique. Not so as I still get the occasional question about that old operating system. Some of those are looking to make the [...]