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Blu-Ray is fine for storage, but it depends what you are storing. Like everyone else said, optical, tape, spinning hard drives, solid-state hard drives, they all have their pros and cons. Personally, I’m not a fan of DVD / Blu-Ray storage because it’s hard to organize and slower to read. If I...

I guess it really depends on what the budget is. I know many graphic designers and photographers who are more then happy with 24” iMacs in full production of the cs4 suite for 8+ hours a day 5 days a week. Apple has also made great strides in improving the quality of the LCD screens used so...

Going off how old the hardware is, I’m going to go out on a limb and say the case itself probably wasn’t designed for airflow to cool it, not that mid 40’s is high, like others have said. Can you go into the BIOS setting and see what type of fan settings you have? Need the mobo model number...

Is the mapped network drive an NAS / Server / Workstation? Is it loosing power at all? Also turn power saving settings OFF for the NIC card. Gabriel Blanc-Laine VP Sales & Marketing www.Qtask.com

DVD disks generally read much slower than CDs to, and if he’s browsing PDF files, it could take even longer for the PDF application to load. If it is PDFs he’s reading, I’d suggest trying Foxit, way faster than Acrobat. For the drive itself, make sure you have the newest drivers installed and...

A few questions. What operating system? Is the SD card reader built in? Is it a desktop model plugged into a USB slot on the computer? Like kestrel1 said, you shouldn’t have to unmount it every time you pull it out, but in the past, Windows towers that came with built in card readers that...

Have you tried 1. not allowing software updates to install at midnight. Set Windows update to download when they are ready but you choose when to install them. Or 2. updating to IE8? Gabriel Blanc-Laine VP Sales & Marketing www.Qtask.com

Open the case and unplug the IDE / SATA cable and the power cable, then plug them back in, reseating the cables fixes most problems. In a more drastic approach, uninstall and reinstall your burning software. Gabriel Blanc-Laine VP Sales & Marketing www.Qtask.com

Glad you fixed it, but as a point of reference, when moving a computer to a new monitor, it’s important to check the resolution running on the old monitor and ensure that the new one can handle at least that. Since resolutions are kept on the computer and not the monitor, the native resolution...

Are you running any Norton products? I’ve found Norton products (with the exception of Ghost, cause more problems then they fix / prevent). When did the problem start? Have you tried sweeping your computer with SpyBot or MalwareBytes? My last suggestion is, forget about IE, get Firefox and...

In more than 12 years of working on computers, I’ve never moved .dll files from one Windows computer into another to resolve an issue. My suggestion is probably the most drastic and / or the most painful, but will eliminate the problem. Pull the drive, put it in an external enclosure, back up...

Stop trying to boot from it, get it in an external enclosure and try to access it that way. Unlike some of the other people here, I’ve had great success putting drives in zip-loc bags and in the freezer for 20-30 minutes at a time. Gabriel Blanc-Laine VP Sales & Marketing www.Qtask.com

I’ve fought with this for way too many years, then I found http://www.xxclone.com/idwnload.htm - it’s free and makes a true clone from one drive to another without the trouble of resizing the partitions. I’ve moved the contents of a 40GB drive to a 250GB drive with no issues, and it’s much...