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DEL.ICIO.USSimple home repairs for a PC
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Working on your own computer can be fun - frustrating at times too. Even if you didn’t save a dime by doing the job yourself, knowing your way around the innards of your machine can be a lifesaver at times.
Most people - even if they aren’t computer hobbyists - can replace power supplies, add accessory cards and replace hard disks. All these tasks have gotten easier over time. Nowadays computer hardware is modular - there’s no soldering required and most of these jobs can be done in 30 minutes or less.
I’m going to include some links that will take you to pages that do a good job of making each of these tasks easy-to-understand. And I’ll offer my usual qualifier - a bad job can wreck your computer. If, after reading how to do the job you find that you are uncomfortable trying - don’t. Also follow the directions on each page as far as protecting yourself from electric shock.
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By Harry Schlegel
January 16, 2007 08:41 AM | Link to this
Bill:
I am looking at various e-mail accounts (some of which are free). My question is, how do I evaluate them? They are:using for my wife.
I need to know if inbox.com will give me the same features/security that msn.com does for my wife. Thanks again. Harry…
By Bill
January 16, 2007 08:45 AM | Link to this
Hi, Harry - I’m a big fan of GMail. You can read more about it by clicking this link.
By Ashley
January 16, 2007 01:53 PM | Link to this
I second Bill’s Gmail vote. It has the best web-based email management I’ve ever seen—bar none.
By Booger
January 17, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this
1/16 - Simple home repairs??
Replacing a hard disk. The writeup seems to me to be installing a second drive, and I am interested in replacing my current drive with a larger one.
After I take the 40GB drive out, and put the new 300GB drive in and connect the cables———what do I do now???
How do I get it running and how do I get my original data on the new one. NOTE: I have done a full backup onto an external drive
Thanks for any help
By Jim Roberts
January 17, 2007 04:42 PM | Link to this
Sorry, but I left the link. http://www.geeks.com/techtips/default.asp
……Jim Roberts