With Internet users growing impatient with waiting to log onto the Web, they are demanding high-speed access.

Time Warner’s Roadrunner access system offers several advantages over current Internet connections. Transmitted through cable wires and a cable modem instead of telephone lines, its speed is 10 to 1000 times faster than the existing service providers.

Tampa already has 20,000 customers since it was launched at the beginning of this year, and the system is being installed at the rate of 600 homes per week. By midsummer, homeowners in Seminole and Orange counties will receive the service. Volusia County residents are scheduled to receive installation by summer of 2000.

A network card is installed in the computer. There will be a separate outlet for Roadrunner installed inside the home, but there is no interference with cable programming.

It is a lot faster than ISDN lines.

Installation costs $99. Cable subscribers will pay monthly rates of $39.95. Prices for non-cable subscribers have not been determined, but average $49.95 nationally.

Roadrunner eliminates the need for a separate phone line which typically costs $15 monthly and the monthly Internet service fees, also $15. Prices will continue to drop once companies such as Thompson and Toshiba begin selling cable modems in retail outlets.
 
 

Windows 98 helps you with this chore. Open MY COMPUTER. Right click on C: Drive and choose PROPERTIES. Right below the pie chart you will see a button named DISK CLEANUP. When you push this button, a window opens and gives you choices of emptying the Recycle Bin – Temporary Internet Files – Temp Files. By placing a checkmark in front of the Temporary Files and then clicking on OK, this will delete all of the temporary files that are stored in the C:\Windows\Temp directory (as long as they are not in use at the time).

In Windows 95 and to remove other temporary files in Windows 98, from the START menu, choose
FIND – FILES & FOLDERS. Where it says Named: -- type *.TMP Be sure you are looking in C:\ and you have a checkmark in front of INCLUDE SUBFOLDERS. Then click on FIND NOW. This will return a list of all of the temporary files that are on your hard drive. Once it has finished finding all of the temporary files, sort them by date (by clicking on the word MODIFIED – remember, by clicking on any of the titles of the columns, you are sorting by that column). Click on the first file that does not have today’s date on it (this will highlight it) – then scroll down to the last file that it found and while holding down the SHIFT key, click on it (this will highlight all of the files from the first one that you clicked on to the last one). Right click on anyone of the highlighted files, and choose DELETE from the menu.