A “How to” on cleaning the dust out of your Laptops fan area to extend your Laptops life, link to Article: How do you clean out the fan on your Laptop?

My wife has an Acer Laptop running Windows 7 64 bit and was trying to view Power Point files and kept getting the dll error. To solve the problem I uninstalled Power Point Viewer 2007, then went here Power Point Viewer 2010 download and installed the new version. Then go to Windows Update in the Control Panel and run it, there should be 3 or 4 updates for the Power Point app. Install the updates, shut down the computer so they install, restart and you should be good to go.

I recently cleaned up a friends Laptop, a Dell, it would run fast all the time and shut down after 20 minutes or so. The problem was the Fan that cools the Heat Sink was totally blocked with lint/dust. I had to remove the Heat Sink which sits on top of the CPU usually there are 4 screws that you remove, then lift the Heat Sink off the CPU, I needed to do this to hers because there was no other way to blow the dust out. I blew out the fins of the heat sink with a can of compressed air which you can buy at computer stores and had to use a tweezers to remove all the built up dust, the fan was unable to spin because of all the dust. Then I used the compressed air to blow the rest out. Before you put the heat sink back in you need to clean the heat sink where it sits on the CPU and the CPU where the heat sink touches it. You then put some Thermal Grease Compound (info about it at Amazon) on the CPU and then carefully lay the heat sink down on top and screw in the 4 screws. If you do not know what I am talking about take your Laptop to a computer Shop/Tech and have them clean it out.

For regular maintenance buy a can of compressed air around $5.00, you shut your Laptop down, remove the Battery and then Unplug the AC power plug, turn the Laptop over. Next take the can of Compressed Air attach the red tube and blow into the opening where the fan is and where the fan blows the air out, if dust comes out Cool, keep doing it until no more dust comes out. Do not soak it with air do short bursts. When done let the Laptop sit a few minutes to let any liquid air on the parts evaporate. Then put the Battery back in and plug the AC plug back in and fire it up. If you do this every month or so it will extend the life of your computer.

A “How To” on cleaning your Laptop fan: How do you clean out the fan on your Laptop?

If you have a Dell Laptop with Media Direct and it is typing slow, you can try this and see if it fixes the problem.
This worked on a Dell Laptop running Windows XP:

1. Click on Start -> Run.
2. Type in “msconfig”.
3. Go to Startup Tab (last Tab).
4. Uncheck “PCMService.exe”
5. Click on OK.
6. This will prompt you to restart your computer. Restart your computer.
7.When it starts back up a box will appear telling you you made changes to msconfig, you can check the box not to prompt you at start-up, click OK. See if it types faster.

These are some interesting articles about why we are running out of IP addresses. Most of the problems are because of the explosion of data that is about to happen, one of which are mobile devices. We need to implement the IPv6 Protocol that uses a 128-bit address. We are currently using the IPv4 Protocol which uses a 32-bit Address. As a Home PC user we would need a new Router that would be able to handle the IPv6 packets, which are much bigger then the IPv4 packets. Also the Internet Service Providers will also have to update their equipment, they are the companies that provide us with our IP Addresses.

This article explains what the two Protocols are and the differences on Wikipedia: IPv6

This article on ReadWriteWeb discusses why it is needed, what companies such as Facebook and Google are doing: Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses

This is a video of Vint Cerf of Google urging ISP’s to move to the IPv6 Protocol before we run out of IP Addresses:

My firefox 3.6.3 was running really slooooow, where IE was fast, I found these instruction to speed firefox up and they worked!!
These are at Dennis Yuppy blog: Tips n tricks Gnoted
1. Firefox running slow when starting?
2. 3 Hacks for firefox to double your speed!
These helped speed up my firefox hope it works for you!

Whenever you get that from IE check in the Tools – Internet Options or go to the Control Panel and open Internet Options there, then go to the Security tab and click each Icon, Internet, Local intranet, Trusted sites and Restricted sites, click one and then click the Default Level button, after you have reset them all to the Default Level, click the Apply Button and then OK to close, you should be able to connect. If not reopen Internet Options and go to the Connections tab, then go to the LAN settings button, { this only applies to Broadband connections } uncheck everything in that panel and click Apply. Then go to the Advanced tab, click the Restore advanced settings button and then click Apply and OK to exit, try opening IE. This will happen when you upgrade IE, rollback to an earlier version of IE, or if your computer got infected and you remove the infection and cannot connect.

I recently help a lady with her Laptop running Vista and she wanted her pictures to show as thumbnails instead of Icons. If you go to Documents, then go to Organize, then choose Folder and Search options, then open the View tab, uncheck the first line that reads Always show icons, never thumbnails. Click Apply and OK, your pictures should now be displayed as thumbnails. This works in Vista and Windows 7.

I just recently installed Windows 7 on one of my computers which had a Linksys NC100TX Network card in it. 7 will not load drivers for it and Linksys has no updated drivers for this card. I bought a brand new Linksys LNE100TX EtherFast card and that will not work with 7 either, it is not even listed on the box that it will work with Vista and I learned on the web that Linksys does not plan to make driver updates for these cards. So before you install 7 use the compatibility program and see if your Network card will work. I will no longer be buying any Linksys products. I bought a new D-Link Network card and it says on the box that it will work with Vista so it should work fine with 7, I ended up putting in a Realtech Network card in place of the Linksys and it work perfectly and they had new drivers for it that I downloaded and installed. I guess Linksys doe not give a hoot about their customers so why should I give a hoot about them. I can not believe they did not even update their drivers for Vista, sad shame on you Linksys.