If I have an external hard drive connected and running (but not being used or accessed through my overt actions) and I get the message "The device ... cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.", would be safe to turn off the...

I've received an email from "suspend@msn.net" asking for billing details and threatening the end of my MSN service. Contacting MSN resulted in referral to a support alias, but no answer. Is this a problem, or a forgery? • ...

Why do I have a 45Gb folder - C:\Windows\system32\1025 - where no files show up? It is killing my 75Gb disk (only about 5Gb user data). • I don't know why there's 45Gb there, but we'll look at a couple of options that might be...

My daughter got an offer at a song lyrics website that had a pop-up, and as always she clicked 'cancel' to get rid of it, then it came back that she had accepted the offer because clicking 'cancel' was to accept the offer! Now we are having problems...

Two of your favorite themes are image backup and TrueCrypt. I've not seen you write about the two together. I've bought an eSata 1TB drive and I'm planning to put TrueCrypt on it and then back up my Vista system and files before upgrading to Windows...