Finding Answers on My Terry’s Computer Tips Web Site

Do you ever wonder how to quickly find answers to your computer problems? I like to answer questions — and I’ve been answering them in my email and online Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters for well over five years. But, I can’t always answer them instantly. In the 5.5+ years of writing my newsletters, I’ve answered [...]

32-bit Windows 7 Networking Problem After Service Pack 1

Long-time subscriber Bernard Huber found that he had an interesting problem. He updated Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, and then could not access the Internet from that computer. He did some extensive debugging, and it got even more interesting… Dear Mr. Stockdale, I just installed SP1 on a netbook ASUS Windows 7 32-bit that [...]

Finding and Restoring Firefox Bookmarks When Firefox Won’t Run

Web browsers are great, but when they won’t work, they’re a real pain. That’s what caused new subscriber K. K. Jain to write about Firefox: While watching online movies, suddenly my Firefox brouser has crashed. Please let me know how to set it right or otherwise at least how to retrieve my bookmarks so that [...]

Silverlight and Windows Live Questions

Recently, subscriber Ed McDowell wrote with questions about Silverlight and Windows Live, both from Microsoft. In his first email, he asked: Terry, Received my new laptop and am busy loading software. OS is Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I am continually asked to download an update to Windows Live Essential. I looked at what Windows [...]

A First Look at Firefox 4

A First Look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 made it out of the Beta and Release Candidate stages this week. The Mozilla Foundation has released its Firefox 4 web browser for Windows, Mac OS X (the one based on BSD Unix, but not earlier versions of Mac) and Linux. If you’re already running Firefox 3, [...]

Internet Explorer 9 – Displaying the Tool Bars – the Menu bar, Favorites bar, etc

When you start up Internet Explorer 9 for the first time, you have a very bland and semi-transparent frame for the Window. Not only that, IE9 has done away with the usual display of web page’s title on the top bar of the Window. Now, it’s just a plain program header that merges into the [...]

A First Look at Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 this week, so I decided to take a look at it… Google has released their latest Chrome version, Mozilla Foundation is scheduled to release Firefox 4 this coming week, but Internet Explorer is still the "standard" since it’s included with Windows. I’m running Windows 7 64-bit version on my desktop, [...]