For anyone even remotely familiar with the old DOS command-line tools, you'll be familiar with that command above and will feel right at home here.  For anyone too young or inexperienced with the old DOS commands, that instruction above says "using the character wild-card *, find any files that have characters before, and after the period, then delete it".  The humor about it all is that EVERY file "back in the day" had SOME kind of character before AND after the period; it was called the 8.3 format, or eight characters for a file name, followed by a three character file extension.  By issuing that command above at the prompt, it would delete everything on your hard, leaving it clean, devoid of all your stuff, and best of all, as full of free space as the day it was "born".

Have you ever been so frustrated with your computer you just wanted to delete everything and start over?  Have you been spittin' mad at that "Personal Confuser" of yours because it won't do what it's supposed to, or even worse, what it USED to do?

You've come to the right place.  I'm a 20+ year 'veteran' of the "PC Wars" battling virus, worms, trojans, bad software, and yes I'll come out and say it;  Bad Users!  I wasn't "born" or even "hatched" knowing how to fix computers or being able to spend five minutes with a piece of software, then knowing it enough to teach an advanced class.  Like you, I started with no knowledge and worked my way up from there.  I too was a "bad user" once!

This site will change that.  Just like when you first learned to drive, or even walk, you weren't that good at first.  It's only through experience, and trial and error that we as humans learn, and this site is your best friend when it comes to you and your computer.  Here you will find everything you need to learn to operate your computer more efficiently.  You'll find how to optimize it to run it's best using built-in tools like Defrag and Scandisc.  Here you can find easy to follow, step-by-step instructions that you can save, print, or even email to friends on everything from trouble-shooting printing errors, to installing updates.  You'll find how-to's on upgrading your drivers to the latest version, installing new video cards, sound cards, USB cards, hard drives.  You can even find tutorials on how to change out your old CD-ROM drive with a brand new DVD-RW (DVD"burner").  In these pages I'll teach you everything I've learned during my career and all my "trial and error" experiences taking you from a full "format & reload", system restores, re-installation and complete patch / update procedures to ensure your system doesn't crash.