Windows Illiteracy Filter. Help me help my mother via long-distance to understand the difference between memory and hard disk storage, and how to access information on her Windows XP machine that will tell her how much memory she has, if there are any empty slots, what type of memory her computer requires, and how large her hard drive is, including used/available space stats. [more inside]
posted by Devils Rancher on Nov 29, 2008 - 14 answers

How can I force Windows to allow an application (Stata) to allocate itself more memory, when I have plenty of unused physical memory? [more inside]
posted by matthewr on Nov 18, 2007 - 12 answers

How can I optimize my computer, or any computer, for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop? [more inside]
posted by idledebonair on May 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Why can't I format my SD card? [more inside]
posted by bradn on Dec 31, 2006 - 9 answers

I've been having this error crop up for some time now and the address is usually 0x00000000, but today it popped up with a new number. What is causing this? It happens to many applications (was happening with firefox occaisionally, too). The whole text of it follows: [more inside]
posted by IronLizard on Aug 10, 2006 - 18 answers

The Windows task manager tells me the CPU and memory usage by each process. Is there a utility that can tell me which of the running processes are responsible for current HDD activity?
posted by Krrrlson on Aug 19, 2004 - 5 answers