I’m not going to call these “problems” because we all do these things at one time or another. A subscriber wrote this week: I have done it again. Two things have happened that I can’t fix. 1. Suddenly, the task bar is on the left of the screen and not on the bottom where it [...]
Multiple Email Copies Received
Subscriber Luanne Scholten wrote to ask about receiving multiple copies of emails: Dear Terry: I’ve been receiving emails that are duplicates & sometimes triplicates. I have a Dell XP, w/ MS Outlook Express. What can I do to stop this…it’s annoying. I enjoy your newsletter & have just signed up for it to come regularly. [...]
One Computer Will Talk to the Router But Other Two Computers Won’t Talk to the Router
Reader James Biddle wrote to ask for help with a strange networking problem: I ran into a unique problem that has defied the experts so far. I have three computers hooked to a router. One day two of the three won’t connect to the internet via the router. They will on direct connect. On the [...]
The Router Password Was Changed
I don’t normally include articles in my email newsletter that I’ve already published in my online newsletter, or vice versa, but sometimes readers don’t read the online newsletter. It’s a special message to the roughly 2/3rds of my email subscribers who don’t read my online newsletter also — the two issues are different and you’re [...]
USB Ports Don’t Work – Followup
Reader and subscriber Sandra Day wrote: Hi Terry. I just read your Computer Tips article on “My USB Ports Don’t Work” and I wonder if a problem I’ve been having is related to that. A year and a half ago I bought a LaCie backup drive for my now 5-year-old Dell Dimension 4300S; my computer [...]
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