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Helpful Site Pick Of The Week
There are places on the internet to find all sorts of helpful information. Finding good computer tips and fixes for problems you may be having is usually not hard. Now finding one place, that seems to have it all, can be a problem. Here’s a place that seems to cover just about any PC topic you may be interested in. This is our Helpful Site Pick of the week! The How-To Geek. Check it out!!
The Blue Screen Of Death
The Blue Screen Of Death–Your Computer Has Crashed
By: John Mowatt
Some kinds of computer errors will completely shut down your computer. An error of this kind is called a Stop Error for obvious reasons. There are a number of different kinds of Stop error and one quite well known and feared example is the blue screen of death or BSOD for short.
In the case of a BSOD error you will be shown an error code and a message on the blue screen. The error code and the message will help you find a starting point for correction of the problem. A BSOD problem can be the result of either a hardware or software malfunction. A hardware problem is however the most likely cause.
Solid Ink Color Printers
Solid Ink – How Does it Compare With Color Inkjet
If you want to buy a color printer, there are three choices: color inkjet printer, color laser printer or solid ink printer. Both color inkjet and color laser printers have been around for a long time while solid ink printers are relatively new to most people. So what are the differences among solid ink vs color inkjet vs color laser printers?
Home Networking
Setting up your home network is not as hard as you may think. All you need is a Cable/DSL Router to plug into your cable modem or other high speed Internet service. You plug the 
router into your cable modem just like it was a computer. After it negotiates with the modem and sets itself up you can plug your computer into one of the routers LAN ports and after your computer does a little negotiating you should connect to the internet. Routers normally will have 4 ports that you can plug computers into. With wireless capability you can plug in 4 computers or devices and also connect with Wireless Computers and Laptops. You can also plug your internet ready game system into your router or a Network Ready Printer. Routers are usually setup by default to do everything automatically so you normally don’t have to do any configuring. With the exception of wireless. If your Router is a Wireless Ready Router you will probably have to access your router’s setup screens and set up some parameters like security keys if desired. Wireless functions are usually off by default and you have to log in to the router and turn it on. Instruction for logging into your router were probably included with your router on paper or on a cd in PDF format. If not most manufacturers website have all you need.
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Saving A Screen Picture
So many people don’t know this simple but useful Windows trick!!
Suppose you need to include a picture of a particular Web site in a newsletter or memo. There’s no need to go to a lot of trouble. All you have to do is press Alt + Print Screen. This will capture the active screen and save it to the Windows Clipboard. Now, you can run Paint or another graphics program and press Ctrl + V to paste the picture into the paint program. There you can crop and edit to get exactly the part you want. Or, if you’re currently working on your newsletter and you want the whole image, you can just paste the picture directly into your word processor.
Network Printing from DOS programs
There are still old DOS based programs being run today on many computers. Mostly older retail systems or custom systems that were created many years ago and they just keep running. Here’s some info on network printing in a DOS enviroment with Win XP or Windows 2000.
Printing from DOS Programs under Windows XP or Windows 2000
In Windows 9x, there was a button in the printer properties to “capture printer port”. Windows 2000 and XP don’t have this button, so to print from a program running a Command Prompt window or an emulated DOS environment you may have to use a subterfuge. There are three cases:
- The printer is a Local Printer and the print device is connected directly to a parallel port (e.g. LPT1).
In this case, you should not have to anything to be able to print from a Command Prompt, from an emulated DOS prompt (command.com) or a DOS (16 bit) program.
- The printer is a Local Printer and the print device is connected to a USB or some other kind of port (e.g. a Standard TCP/IP port).
In this case, you need to either:
pool the port the printer is on with the LPT1 port
or
create a share for the printer and map the printer to an emulated local port that DOS knows about (e.g. LPT1). Do steps 1 through 7 below
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