Sharing Home Network Printers

by Juan Ruiz

As more people become used to computers, they may even have two or more of them at home.  Computers are becoming more powerful and less expensive in a short amount of time.  However the disparate technology from a few years back does not make those computers obsolete.

Even though one might have bought a new computer to upgrade the old technology, one may find that it is very possible to continue using the old computer and form a home network.  And because of that, one also may find a need to share resources such as printers.  In this paper, I put together three separate tutorials that are very closely related: sharing a printer; connecting to a shared printer; and finding the computer name of the shared printer.

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The "blue" Troubled Waters of Color-Calibration

by Emy Nelson Decker

Images not projecting through an LCD projector the way they look on your laptop screen? In this article, Emy gives us a run-through of the easy way to adjust color-calibration to fit whatever LCD projector you may be using.

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Importance of Routine Maintenance

by Juan Ruiz

Question:
Like a lot of people, my neighbors use their computers constantly without understanding the importance of routine maintenance. On a recent visit I was asked why the main one was (now) running so slow. My first move was to do the obvious. I cleared out the cookies, temporary Internet files, history, recycle bin, etc. Then I downloaded and ran AdAware to clear out any remaining spyware (any that didn't come out as a standard cookie).

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Desktop Background Mystery

by Juan Ruiz

Question:
In Appearance and Themes, Display, Desktop, there are about 31 choices to pick for a desktop background that comes with Windows. My list also contains pictures I have in my files, photos I have taken and saved in My Pictures. I do not add them to the provided list; they somehow end up
there. Do you know why or how that is possible?

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