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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – February 19, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)?Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)? I’m beginning to think that I really do… For a lot of years, I kept UPS’s supplying power to all of my family’s computers. I was concerned over power outages and their impacts on [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – February 12, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Windows Media Player and Windows 7Long-time subscriber J. P. Biddle wrote with a question about Windows Media Player running on Windows 7: I have an interesting question. I noticed in Windows 7 64 bit under active tasks windows media player. I try to kill it but you can’t or [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – February 5, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: "Warning: Unresponsive Script" ErrorSubscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 29, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: What’s This Desktop.ini (or Desktop) File on my Windows 7 Desktop?One of the strange changes that came with Windows 7, at least for those of us who previously used Windows XP, is that some of the operating system options don’t work the same. Advanced Windows users often want to [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 22, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Unable to Delete an IMAP Email Account in ThunderbirdSubscriber 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 [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 15, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Preventing Windows Auto-Restarting on System ErrorsEver 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 [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 8, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Displaying Hidden Directories and FilesLongtime subscriber Mike G. wrote to ask about a hidden directory on his computer. One of the cleaner utilities reported temporary files in a directory he could not find: Hi Terry, When using "cleanup software", such as CCleaner, The analysis frequently shows temporary files from [...]

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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 1, 2012

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This week’s email newsletter articles are: Where Are The Windows 7 Libraries?Longtime subscriber Stephen wrote with a question since he had recently shifted from WinXP to Windows 7: Seasons greetings Terry I did have my data saved on a second drive on my old XP box and followed a good backup procedure Now I have [...]

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