Of all the "under the hood" components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

Every time you visit a web page Internet Explorer makes a copy of the content of these web pages as files on your computer. These files are called Temporary Internet Files and are used to allow for ...

The file is in use by an application or system process The file is locked The user does not have permission to delete the file The file is damaged or otherwise ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default program ...

The Tutorial Files that accompany Computer Music's guides can now be downloaded, for the benefit of those reading via Apple Newsstand or Zinio(these files are included on the DVD that comes with the ...