Recent content by BobSmith809

I guess the message is buy yer gadgets now...

Thanks for the great article! I had to comment here as I have this exact model of APC 1000 still running strong after over a decade. And believe it or not, the ORIGINAL battery is still working although it was offline for 3-4 years while I was using a Belkin (which was quieter but charging...

I think that'll get you where you want to go faster. I did so many builds with retail, various OEM versions of XP through the years, that I always had SP3 on a CDRW and later on a thumb drive ready to go. I can't tell you how many times I went through that routine, install XP raw, next install...

Thinking about this a bit: In the last couple of years I have installed XP Retail with none of the service packs. After I do the install the first thing I do is install SP3 either via CDRW or thumb drive. Once that is on there you can download Firefox, go to Microsoft and get IE8 and go from...

Can you somehow get some iteration of Firefox on there? Like from another PC via a thumb drive? Once Firefox was on there that would enable you to find and download a copy of a newer version of IE, say IE7, and you could then get the windows updates you need to then get all the way to IE 8 and...

I should also add, regarding what ever adapter you might get, to pay attention to the power needs of whatever drive you're attaching. Some of the adapters come with external power adapters and some don't. You would need to attach the old drive to the PSU of your new PC in the latter case...

Depending on the interface type, some sort of IDE or SATA to USB adapter should work. Then you would just hook the drive up to your new PC via the USB port to access the data.

I have a single boot Win 8.1 Pro (upgraded from 8 Pro) on a modern Core i7 PC on a wired/wireless network. I had an issue where I could not print to two previously network connected printers connected to another machine that is Core i3, dual booted WinXP Pro 32 and Win 7 Pro 64. The printers are...