What Is CaTrayLauncher.exe by Angela on February 9, 2008
Q: My new computer running Windows Vista runs a program at startup called CaTrayLancher.exe but I have no idea what it is or what it is for. Can you please help?
A: What I found was that catraylauncher.exe is from a program called Vongo. The program is installed into your startup menu so that each [...]
New Drive Missing In My Computer by Angela on February 8, 2008
Q: I am in the process of buying a computer and the guy I am trying to buy it from says that it has 512GBÂ hard drive but when I went to My computer and clicked on C: Drive it says that it only has 30.1GB. He says that he just put in a [...]
What Internet Service Providers Support Torrents? by Jay on February 7, 2008
Q: I am considering changing Internet providers. The one I am thinking of joining has some details about it. One of them says, “Doesn’t participate in any peering networks “. Does this mean that I cannot use torrents?
A: There are a lot of aspects an individual looks at before selecting an Internet Service Providers (ISPs) [...]
Should I Get An AMD Quad Core CPU? by Mark on February 7, 2008
Q: I am about to rebuild my computer, which was a 3GHz socket A AMD Athlon with 2 gig of DDR RAM. The motherboard has developed a heat fault on the chipset and it is not fixable. I am looking at getting a new motherboard, processor, and RAM along with a new case with a [...]
Toshiba USB Drives Not Working by Angela on February 7, 2008
Q: I have a Toshiba Satellite running Windows XP Media Center Edition and I have four USB Ports but I seem to only be able to use one at a time. Regardless of which port I use it is always listed as the E:\ drive. I have tried using the “map network drive” function, [...]
Internet Gets Slow At Night When Geek Is Home by Jay on February 6, 2008
Q: I have a 6-yr old Gateway desktop connected to a Verizon DSL modem. I have a “computer geek” student temporarily staying on the 3rd floor of our house. All day long, I have no trouble accessing the Internet but when he comes home and powers up his laptop computer my Internet access is slower [...]
System32/drivers/fastfat.sys Is Corrupted Or Is Missing by Jay on February 6, 2008
Q: My computer shut off one day and I had to restart it. When it came back up it said “System32/drivers/fastfat.sys” is corrupted or is missing so I tried to reinstall but the system shuts down midway through the install. What should I do?
A: The error you are getting, has number of causes attached with [...]
Desktop Icons Randomly Appear And Disappear by Angela on February 6, 2008
Q: I have Windows XP SP2 loaded on my PC and my computer is updated regularly using Microsoft Update. Recently my desktop icons have started disappearing and appearing for no apparent reason. I have defragged and error checked my computers hard drive but that did nothing. I also have an anti-virus program from AVG installed [...]
Different Types Of DVD Media by Jay on February 5, 2008
Q: What is the difference between the different types of burnable DVD’s, single layer, dual layer, 16x spindle and what is the most versatile?
A: Hi There, the versatility you are looking for in a DVD type will primarily depend upon your purpose of DVD burning, which isn’t clearly being stated here. Every type has its [...]
Roxio Easy CD Creator Detected Errors by Jay on February 5, 2008
An Into Tomorrow listener submitted the following question!
Q: I have been using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.2 which came with Windows XP when I bought it. It used to work wonderfully to download my pictures to a CD but now when I do it I keep getting an error message. It says: Easy CD Creator [...]