The F12 key: a follow-up Regarding whether holding down the F12 key still causes the CD tray to eject (as covered yesterday), several readers found that it does still do this. However, you now have to ...

Printing problems produce headaches. They can eat up a business day to troubleshoot and resolve, leaving you no closer to the printout you need than you were when your hardware began acting up.

The computing industry is flooded with obscure technical terms like printer spooling. Spooling happens automatically in the background, and you might never notice this feature as long as it keeps ...

In context: It's been a rocky start for Microsoft's latest revamp, Windows 11, to say the least. The OS has been subject to several issues in the past few weeks. While some have been patched, another ...

Continuing FireWire Vs. Panther coverage Firmware updates on unsupported drives Yesterday we reported that although number of MacFixIt readers have reported success in using a firmware updater from ...

There are reports all over of the Windows June cumulative updates – KB 4560960 (Win10 version 1903/1909), KB 4557957 (Win10 2004), KB 4561608 (Win10 1809/Server 2019) and KB 4561612 (Server 2012) – ...

Ever since I moved to a new computer I have been having problems printing to my USB printer.<BR>Basically if I want to print something i have to unplug the USB cable for a couple seconds and then plug ...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has two operational IBM 1401 mainframes, which use IBM 1403 high-speed printers. They aren’t some decades-old notion of “high speed” that barely looks ...

Here is the problem:<BR><BR>We just got a HP Officejet K550 for work. The printer is hooked up via USB to a Windows XP computer and shared over a network. On the network are three Windows NT 4.0 SP6 ...

Printers are common computer accessories, and like most accessories will begin to experience performance loss and other problems over time. Whether you replace a printer because a newer model has ...