Subscriber Ken wrote with a short and simple question — he wants to reformat his laptop computer’s hard drive and to reinstall Windows. However, his question has some underlying possible issues and answers: I have a laptop HP. It is about 4 years old. It did not come with a windows Cd. My question. How [...]
Saving Bookmarks and Favorites for Portable Use with Other Computers
Subscriber Suzanne Veilleux wrote with a great question I hadn’t considered before this: Hi Terry, Do you have an article that explains how to import SOME Firefox bookmarks, (not all of them) into Internet Explorer or to a disk so that I can use it on someone else’s computer while traveling when that someone else [...]
Outlook 2007 – Opening an HTML eMail in Your Web Browser
This week, I got an interesting question from reader Lew Gazaway, who had started using Outlook 2007 as his email program: Hi Terry, I find your newsletter informative and interesting to read. I am using Windows 7 and Office 2007. How do I open your newsletter in Outlook and view it as an attachment rather [...]
Firefox Add-on to Add “Run” to Download Options
The new subscriber wrote “Default Browser is Firefox 3.6.10. And I have the “OpenDownload Addon” Which gives me the “Run”” as in IE. I also have Secunia installed which points out updates required. Say I’m upgrading Java and I click on “Run”. It downloads the update into a temp folder I guess, but I get this Download error [...]
Very Slow Web Browser
New subscriber M. Bangirov wrote to ask about web browsing speed problems: Hi Terry, My problem is very slow web browser.I have tried different browsers- mozilla,explorer7,opera and so on but i still have slow browser.Although the speed is ok with other computers with my EeePC 1000H i could not stand.I am becoming very angry with [...]
Web Browser Suddenly Goes Black & White
Subscriber Philip wrote from Belgium with a web browser problem: Dear Terry, I installed my previous desktop for my son. Although he worked fine til than, suddenly when opening GMAIL, we see the screen just in black&white. Sometimes on sides where you have to click a download button, the buttom is not visible but if [...]
Firefox Hesitates Occasionally When Links Are Clicked
Subscriber Tom wrote to ask about problems after he upgraded his Firefox web browser: Terry, Since upgrading to Firefox 3.5.7 (or it appears to have happened then because I cannot remember anything else I did ) I have been experiencing a problem. After using it for a while and usually with 3 or more tabs [...]
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