Computer Knowledge Why Is/Does... FAQs

Computer Knowledge and the related FILExt (file extension) site are not general support sites; they are, instead, repositories of certain information. However, questions come in anyhow and various issues are discussed in the FILExt forum. The information that comes out of these discussions will be documented here and/or there as appropriate. This page links to all of the FAQs dealing with Why Is/Does things with the last modified at the start.

• Why Aren't Different Display Colors the Same on Different Monitors? Often computer users complain that images viewed on one computer do not look the same when viewed on another.
• Why am I Having a MSN MAILHOST/DOWNLOADHOST Problem? Now and again the controlling DLL file(s) for MSN becomes unregistered and MSN users receive MAILHOST and/or DOWNLOADHOST problem messages and can't connect to their mail. Here's how to fix this.
• Why Does a File of the Form TFTPxxx Try to Run at Startup? A file of the form TFTPxxx (where xxx = numbers) attempts to run at system start and Windows does not know how to do that. Why does it happen?
• Why Can't I Copy a Large File Despite Having Larger Free Space? In these days of extra large hard disks many try to copy large files from a DVD but find that can't even though there is plenty of free space on the hard disk. Why not?