Long-time readers of my Terry’s Computer Tips email newsletters will recognize many of these New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve updated them a bit and I think they’re still very valid. New Year’s Resolutions are a traditional, annual opportunity to make resolutions for the ways we’re going to improve our life in the coming year. Here are [...]
The Joys of Migrating to a New Computer
You know, no matter how much you prepare to move from one computer to another computer (not just upgrading the old computer, but replacing it), things never seem to go smoothly. No, I haven’t had any real problems. The aggravations, though, have been when I got ready to do something on the new computer but [...]
Computer Maintenance Time – Spring & Fall Cleaning
It’s time to clean up your computer! This time, I’m not talking about cleaning our computers from adware, spyware, viruses, deleting old files we no longer need (You buy a bigger hard drive so you can store more, right? I do!). I’m talking about real cleaning. PC’s get dirty in their insides, too. We use [...]
Thoughts on Buying a New Computer Now
Subscriber Mickey wrote this week to ask: Terry, I am considering buying my wife a new laptop, probably a Dell since friend works there, and I don’t want to change the OS and programs she is using. Is there a way I can buy the new laptop and re-format the drive and then load the [...]
When a Question Is Unasked…
I got a shock recently when a subscriber (let’s call her "Alice") unsubscribed, and left me a brief message explaining why… I am older, and none of what you talk about are things that pertain to what I do on my computer. Alice As I do sometimes when I get a comment like this, I [...]
Turned On Computer and Everything Is Large
Subscriber Kelley wrote with a couple problems: Hi Terry, I turned on my computer yesterday morning but when it loaded up, all of my icons were very large. When I open programs like Word, Wordperfect and even Internet Explorer and AOL, and the font, screen and everything is large. I have no idea what happened. [...]
Dealing with Automated Phone Answering Systems
I’m sure you’ve had the same experience I have had — calling a company’s phone number, only to hit an automated switching system (e.g., "press 8 or say Eight for Technical Support"). Longtime reader and friend Sam Boggs wrote about a web site that he found which can guide us through the maze to actually [...]
Customizing My Yahoo!
I’ve been a user of Yahoo.com for a long time. Several years ago, after routinely visiting www.yahoo.com for months, I finally decided to set up my personal "My Yahoo!" page. Unlike a MySpace page, this isn’t something that is shared with anyone else. I don’t add anything to it — for that matter, I can’t [...]
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