In-Depth Articles
Converting your Vinyl Records and Tapes to Digital format and recording a DVD sound track to replay on an audio CD.
Ever thought of having a go at transferring your old 45 records and LP's along with cassettes to CD/DVD? Well here's something to whet your appetite having had a go myself recently. I hope it helps you to try it out!
Taking care of your valuable data
Taking care of your valuable data shows you how to back up your data and protect yourself in order not to lose all your hard work in the event of a disk crash etc.
An Introduction to using PCs with Windows 98
This booklet introduces the user to the PC and shows them basically how to use it. Very useful for novices and new users.
This document requires a pdf reader in order to read it,such as Acrobat or FoxIT.
If you require a pdf file reader, then a very good, small and fast reader can be found at Foxit Software. I use this and prefer it as it is much smaller and quicker to open than Adobe Acrobat, which at >27Mb is far too big if you include the Yahoo Toolbar and Photoshop Album Starter Edition!
Try the Foxit pdf reader, it's good!
Tips on Using Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer Tips can be opened here by left clicking your mouse or downloading by right clicking your mouse, on this « link ». (These notes were compiled by Alan J Weston and are written around IE5.x but the contents also relate to IE6.x too.)
Due to the size of the upgrade from 5x to 6x I would suggest you pick up a free ISP disk and run the install/upgrade from that. Do NOT however run the CD automatically and allow it to auto install as it may decide to change all your connections to their settings! You have been warned!
Fitting a second Hard Disk Drive
This article deals with the fitting a second Hard Disk Drive to extend your storage space and create a backup image of your main drive, C: for safety!
I advocate the fitting of a second drive in order to make an image of the C drive as a back up in the event of either a hard disk failure or a corruption of the Windows image on the C drive for whatever reasons. It then makes restoration of your suystem that much easier! For this you'll need some additional software like Symantec Ghost or Powerquest's Drive Image or something similar. There may even be some freeware to do this available nowadays, so I guess a search via something like Google Search may find something.
Convert Vinyl LPs to CD format (old article but still relevant - see above)
Want to convert some old Vinyl LPs to CD format? Check out this « document » and it might help you. All you need is a record deck, amplifier and a link to your computer.
Microsoft Office Tips
Microsoft Office Tips can be downloaded by left clicking your mouse on this « link ».
(These notes were compiled by Alan J Weston.)
Windows 2000 and XP Performance Tips
This article explains, in simple terms how to improve the efficiency and power of a computer's Hard Disk Drive File System by using a more powerful file system, NTFS.
To download this document, click « here ». You'll need a pdf reader installed in order to view the document.
