Lincoln Spector - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lincoln Spector

Article | 30/08/2002 SmartDisk pushes external drive capacity

SmartDisk has announced production of two external, USB, large-capacity hard drives that will support up to 120GB of data.

Article | 20/08/2002 PowerQuest Drive Image 2002

Drive imaging, the best way to back up your entire hard drive for disaster recovery, used to require rebooting to DOS. Now you can do much of the chor...

Article | 19/06/2002 Dr. Hardware 2002 3.0.0e,Cacheman 5.1, TweakMaster 1.61

Want to know what's in your computer and how it's configured? Want to fine-tune that configuration for peak performance? I looked at a trio of try-bef...

Article | 26/04/2002 VCommunications System Commander 7

A lot of people want to upgrade to Windows XP but are scared of losing the operating system they know. Microsoft doesn't make it easy. VCommunications...

Article | 19/04/2002 CD-RW drives hit 40X -- but where are discs?

With the emergence of fast new CD-RW (CD-rewritable) drives, you can burn CD-RW discs at a full 12X speed, and CD-Rs (CD-recordables) at a stunningly ...

Article | 20/03/2002 PowerDesk powers up with release 5

Loyal fans of PowerDesk have waited more than two years for an update, and Ontrack Data International is finally answering the call, releasing PowerDe...

Article | 26/02/2002 Windows 9x: Transfer Outlook Express settings

Moving your Outlook Express settings to a new machine is not an easy task. Your Outlook Express setup has four different pieces that you may want to m...

Article | 18/02/2002 Invasion of the browser snatchers

Ron Zorko was only trying to get to PC World's web site. But when he accidentally mistyped the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), a porn site popped up.

Article | 12/02/2002 X-Card Pushes PC Video to MPEG-4

The MPEG-4 standard, released more than two years ago but only now appearing in consumer devices, may be the next big thing for putting a big picture ...

Article | 17/01/2002 Xbox sales success isn't without bumps

Like a million and half other people, Jonathan Crain set up the family's new Xbox on Christmas morning. The game machine, released by Microsoft Corp. ...

Article | 28/11/2001 PKZip Suite 4.5, WinZip 8.1

Compressing files is even easier now, thanks to new versions of WinZip and PKZip. Both compress one or more files into .zip archives, and both restore...

Article | 20/02/2001 Make Your Hard Drive Work for You

DriveWorks lets you copy, partition, and maintain your hard drive with one inexpensive package.

Article | 10/02/2001 Win 9x - Share desktop settings

Increasingly often in the hectic workplace environment, you may find yourself using multiple computers, all of which are also used by several people. ...

Article | 3/02/2001 Win 9x - Lost clusters explained

Often, users find that when they run a system monitoring tool, such as Norton Utilities, it reports that their PC has lost clusters. Many readers have...

Article | 17/01/2001 Clean the right-click menu

Uninstalling a program should remove all the changes it made to Windows, but, sometimes, to get rid of the context-menu options an uninstalled program...