Jim Coates

Q--I formatted my wife's PC, reinstalled Windows and now, after my screen saver kicks in, the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock indicator lamps blink in unison, and I...

If I say Linus and you say Charlie Brown, you're probably not a hard-core computer geek. If I say Linus and you think Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the free...

Q--I was looking at a friend's new computer with Windows 98 the other day and noticed that the program list, the one that appears when you click Start/Programs, was not...

Q--I am looking for a new computer. I heard from a good salesman at Gateway that Intel is coming out with its Pentium III processor this spring and Microsoft is...

Intel Corp., which bobbled a huge public relations crisis by downplaying math errors in the original Pentium back in 1994, once again has the public up in arms. This time...

Q. I want to record from my tape player to my hard drive. After I plug my cassette player's line-out into the computer sound card's line, what do I do...

Q--I searched your past columns that I have saved and can't come up with the right solution to my problem with the Windows 98 Start button, which currently is at...

Fervid users of the Palm Pilot hand-held personal digital assistants will love Pilot Island, a new $30 CD-ROM loaded with software that lets one use these hand held personal organizers...

Q. Can someone help me? I lost my copy of WordPerfect 6.0. A neighbor then installed 5.2, but it is a real come-down and I can't use the data I...

Q. I have an HP Pavilion 6330 running Windows 98. About once a week or so, I run into a mouse pointer glitch. The arrow will jump up about 1...