Using Bookmarks and Favorites with Flash Drives

Several readers provided suggestions about my recent article Saving Bookmarks and Favorites for Portable Use with Other Computers… Rohn wrote: For my use, I have installed a Firefox add-on called "PlainOldFavorites". It allows FF to use IE "Favorites". IE Favorites are simply "shortcut" files, 1 per link. I have several thousand, so I have them [...]

Problem Copying Web Pages into Microsoft Word 2007

Subscriber Nathan Schor was having problems when he tried to copy and paste content from some web pages into Word 2007, so he wrote to ask: I've run into a problem — both interesting and difficult — for which I can't seem to find a solution. And I've asked quite a few 'experts' but to [...]

Reformatting a Notebook Computer’s Hard Drive

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 [...]

Dead Links in Thunderbird Emails

Subscriber Allan Pendlebury wrote with a problem when reading emails in Thunderbird: Hello Terry Windows 7. Thunderbird 3.1.4. Firefox 3.6.10. All of a sudden links in Thunderbird don’t open a default Firefox browser. I’ve googled and while there are similar complaints; nothing recent. I don’t recall changing anything and while I could revert to a [...]

Uninstalling Internet Explorer 8 from a Windows 7 Computer

Longtime subscriber John used an article comment to ask a question on my Terry’s Computer Site. Unfortunately, no one answered him there, so here it is: I have an HP mini 110 netbook with Win7 home premium. I set up a user account and all programs run from both user and administrator account except IE8. [...]

Multiple Copies of “the Internet” Open When Starting Windows

Reader Helen Provencal wrote to ask about a strange phenomena on her computer: hi terry I recieve your e-mail all the time but I am having a problem. My problem is Internet comes on every time I open my PC. Not only 1 but several of them. So how can I stop Internet from coming [...]