Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Dr. Emilio Bombay Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Oct. 6--DEAR DR. BOMBAY: You always write about not changing any settings unless you know what you are doing. I read in a magazine how to set swap file settings to make my computer faster. Can you tell me if it is all right? I am an avid reader of your column, and I don't want to be one of your "stupid" readers.

-- Thanks for the Memory

DEAR THANKS: No, to qualify as a stupid reader, you'd have to be totally unwilling to learn anything at all about your computer and not have a clue about where to look for help or be too dim to use it correctly if you found it. Then you'd start whining loudly when the free advice you get doesn't work exactly as advertised …