Windows Live Mail crashes were giving long-time subsriber Raman problems, so he wrote to me to ask: Hello Terry When I try to open any attachments to my mail, the Windows Live Mail freezes. I checked on line and found many people have the same problem. Apparently this started after downloading Microsoft’s recent 11 updates. [...]
Friends Help Friends With New PC’s
It’s Christmas time — a lot of people are purchasing a new computer for their home, sometimes purchasing their first computer, or a computer for their children. Unfortunately, many of these new purchasers don’t know how to protect themselves properly on today’s Internet. That’s where we, as more experienced PC users (of whatever experience level!) [...]
To Update Web Browsers Or Not?
Longtime subscriber Chet wrote to ask about the need to update Internet Explorer and Firefox: Hi Terry Is it wise to update every time you get an email…for instance I’m still using IE8 and am hesitating to go to IE9…and now it seems FIREFOX, MY BROWSER OF CHOICE, (V3.6.18) is updating every 10 minutes! I [...]
Did Windows Updates Delete Google Earth?
I recently received an email from longtime subscriber and friend Jack Carmena, who had an interesting problem: This week, Microsoft has downloaded updates to my computer on two occasions in the middle of the night. I didn’t notice until this morning when I tried to use it that during that process, GOOGLE EARTH was deleted/removed/hidden [...]
How to Copy IE Favorites to Another Computer
I answered a question in a computer help mailing list this week about Internet Explorer Favorites. The computer user had just upgraded to a new Windows 7 computer and he wanted to move his Favorites to the new computer. One way that he could do this would be to use the Export and Import functions [...]
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