Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey 5,200-rpm ...

Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

Reader P.J. Schultz is attempting to reach across the great Mac/PC platform divide but has been thwarted. She writes: I am trying to install the software for my Canon printer on to my husband’s ...