Subscriber Allan Pendlebury wrote to ask for help with a Thunderbird problem he was having: Hello Terry This is driving me nuts. I had gmx.com as an IMAP account in Thunderbird 9.0.1. I deleted my account on line with gmx (too much spam), but do you think I can get rid of it in Thunderbird? [...]
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Unable to Delete an IMAP Email Account in Thunderbird
Filed Under: Communications, Computers, Email, Software, Thunderbird, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: account, account setup, accounting, computing, delete, e mail, free software, imap, imap account, imap email, internet message access protocol, mozilla thunderbird, portable software, post office protocol, roaming profiles, solve, Thunderbird, unable
Updating Drivers
Subscriber William wrote me to ask about updating his computers’ drivers. Tech Tip What are drivers? They’re software that allows Windows to talk to your computer’s hardware – like the video card, the printer, the USB ports, the Ethernet port… Hi Terry. Thanks for the newsletter. Please tell me the best way to update drivers. [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Hardware, How To, Software, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: computing, drivers, laptops, newsletter, sony desktop, update, update drivers, xp
Power Problems With A Notebook
Subscriber Ken Gibson wrote recently asking for my thoughts to help him diagnose power problems with his laptop: I have a question. I have an hp laptop about 5 years old. The labtop will not power up. Occasionally it will come on and work well, but then when you try to shut it down it [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Hardware, Notebook, System Control, Troubleshooting Tagged With: hp laptops, labtop, laptops, notebook, notebooks, power, power problems, power switch, problems, shutdown
Preventing Windows Auto-Restarting on System Errors
Ever had a problem where Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 would have an internal problem, flash an error message at you, and immediately reboot while you were trying to figure out what happened? One of the default settings in Windows is responsible for that automatic reboot. Fortunately, it’s also one that’s easy to change. [...]
Filed Under: 64-bit, Computers, How To, Operating Systems, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows - Other, Windows 7, Windows Registry, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: auto-reboot, auto-restart, control panels, dialog box, error, microsoft windows, preventing, reboot, rebooting, restart, system, system errors, system reboot, windows, windows 7, windows update, windows vista, windows xp
Outlook Express 6 Prints Email Headers Only
Subscriber Marc Taylor asked for some help solving a problem with Outlook Express 6: Searched the site but found nothing re: this problem. Currently running OE 6 on a Toshiba laptop running XP SP3 and it quit printing the body of an e-mail. Just prints header info. Have tried different printers. Any ideas? Thanks, Marc [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Email, Operating Systems, Outlook Express, Repair, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Updates, Windows, Windows XP Tagged With: computing, e mail, email, express, ftp clients, headers, home theater, internet explorer, internet explorer 7, internet explorer 8, microsoft windows, mozilla thunderbird, OE, outlook express, outlook express 6, prints, rss aggregators, solve, toshiba laptops, windows 7
Windows Live Mail Freezing When Opening Attachments
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. [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Email, Free Software, Security, Software, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows Live Mail Tagged With: attachments, e mail, email client, gmail interface, internet message access protocol, live mail, mailing, mozilla thunderbird, open attachments, opening attachments, post office protocol, window live, windows live mail
Thunderbird Button Bar Not Showing
Subscriber Oz Fisher wrote about a problem he was having with the free Thunderbird email program (which I use): Hi Terry, Thanks for publishing so many informative and useful tidbits of information on the Thunderbird email system. In order for me to create a message screen to send a message in Thunderbird, I have to [...]
Filed Under: Communications, Email, Free Software, Software, Thunderbird, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting Tagged With: bar, button, buttons, computing, e mail, email client, free software, informative, mozilla thunderbird, screens, showing, Thunderbird, tidbits, useful
More Positive Feedback on WinPatrol Plus
After my recent article about WinPatrol, long-time subscriber Al Soroka wrote about his experience with WinPatrol and WinPatrol Plus — and how they had helped protect his computer: I followed your recommendation last year and purchased & installed WinPatrol Plus. Earlier this year I purchased a new Kodak AIO printer and as part of their [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Free Software, Software, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows Tagged With: boot files, conime exe, feedback, kodak, social issues, trojan virus, winpatrol
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