Peoria Online Trader's Resource Center

This is spot that we have created for keeping some useful tools or information that we have created or found on the internet.


JAVA Powered Tools!


JavaScript Car/House Loan Calculator - a very handy tool to figure out the payments for that new car or house that you are thinking about.

Javascript Unit Convertors - Here are several unit convertors that utilize the power of Javascript which will help take the guesswork out of English to Metric conversions.


Microsoft Information

Check out this article on how to "Cut Internet Explorer from Windows 98 with your own bare hands" by Brain Livingston. See how to remove Internet Explorer from Windows98.

Are you having intermittent problems with your Ultra-DMA hard-drive? Do you want to get the most speed out of your hard-drive. See these articles on how "You can fix problems with Ultra DMA drives in Windows 95/98, NT" and "How to use Windows' DMA check box to speed up your drives" by Brain Livingston.

Windows95 Internet Dialup Server Setup in Windows 95.  Some helpful hints if you are having trouble connecting with your internet service provider.

 Netscape Navigator Default Browser setup - Instructions on how to make Netscape Navigator or Netscape Communicator your default browser.

Dial-Up Networking improvements for Windows 95 - Four articles by Brian Livingston of Infoworld on how to upgrade the Windows 95 Dial-Up network dialer and optimize it.  There is a free upgrade available from Microsoft. This upgrade improves your current modem performance as well as allows for ISDN connections. You can even monitor your modem's performance with the Windows 95 system monitor.


RegClean 4.1 could solve problems with conflicting apps - The Windows 95 registry has always been something of a mystery. Most Win95 settings are stored in the Registry files, which are called User.dat (for user-specific settings) and System.dat (for hardware settings). When you install applications on your system, they often add whole new sections to your Registry...

Smoke out those mystery activities with free WinTop - One of Windows' endearing little habits is to periodically take over your system for no apparent reason. Seemingly out of the blue, Windows will spin your hard disk, make an odd sound, or generally do something that you're sure you didn't actually command it to do.

Microsoft Windows communications ports are more like `Plug and Pray' - In my experience, most serial-port and modem problems are due to one of two conditions that Windows 95 does not handle well. The first is a "skipped" port number (for example, you may have a COM1, a COM3, and a COM4, but COM2 is either absent or used for a mouse)....


Hardware Information


Read about The Hardware Horror Story! We are quickly running out of IRQs on the existing PC bus structure. Take a look at this article to find out more.


General Information

"Computer users are mad as hell" - check out this article from BusinessWeek.



 
 

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