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For all those Mac users here is a very useful tip. In Mac OS X you can configure hot corners, which will trigger a certain event when the mouse is moved to a particular corner of the screen, such as showing the screen saver or minimising all windows and displaying the desktop. To configure hot corners, go to the Apple menu > ?System Preferences? and open the ?Desktop & Screen Saver? preferences. Click ?Screen Saver? and the ?Hot Corners? button.

I have bought a SanDisk Cruzer 1 GB thumb drive, which incorporates something called the ?U3 System?. I only wanted the thumb drive to be a data repository, and have found the U3 to be distracting and very annoying with all its pop-up windows and menus that appear when the drive is inserted into the computer. The thumb drive appears within Windows as a removable disk and also a CD-ROM drive. In an attempt to remove U3 I found a program called ?Launchpad Removal Program? on SanDisk?s website, but this does not seem to work. Subsequently, I also tried formatting the drive but this also did not remove U3. Looking through Disk Management I found that the removable drive and CD-ROM drive portions of the thumb drive are classified as partitions on the thumb drive, but cannot be removed (as the ?Delete Partition? button is disabled). Can you please explain how U3 can be removed from the thumb drive?

I recently connected an HP Photosmart printer to my computer running Windows XP. Now, every time I boot Windows the printer is re-detected and reinstalled. This means that I end up with several copies of the same printer installed. How can I prevent this from happening?

In early May, Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released. This service pack contains all the updates which have previously been released for Windows XP, plus some new features. Although these new features do not greatly affect the user experience, they do provide some added functionality for back-end services. While you may not notice a major difference after you have installed SP3, it is good practice to install this latest update for Windows XP. Service Pack 3 is available for download from Windows Update (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com).