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 19, 2012
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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – February 12, 2012
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
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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Google’s New Privacy Policy — Read it and Weep
Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]
Filed Under: Communications, Computers, Privacy, Security, Updates, Web Browsing Tagged With: bad news, computing, google, human computer interaction, privacy, privacy policy, read it and weep, scary, world wide web
What’s This Desktop (or Desktop.ini) 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 way. Advanced Windows users often want to display all the hidden files and folders, including protected operating system files(which is a separate [...]
Filed Under: Computers, Operating Systems, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: computing, desktop, desktop icon, desktop ini, desktops, features new to windows 7, graphical user interface, hidden files, ini, microsoft windows, operating system, start menu, windows 7, windows desktop, windows explorer, windows nt, windows shell, windows xp
Can’t Send Reduced Size File Attachments
Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand to ask about a problem he was having in emailing photos… Hullo Terry, Here’s a problem that’s new to me. When sending photographs by e-mail I always use the Send To > Mail Recipient feature of Windows Explorer to reduce the file size and make the pictures viewable [...]
Filed Under: Communications, Computers, Email, How To, Operating Systems, Software, Thunderbird, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows XP Tagged With: attachments, computing, e mail, email smaller images, email smaller photos, file attachment, file sizes, filing, microsoft windows, mozilla thunderbird, reduce, reduce file size, reduced size, richard fuller, send, shrink images, Thunderbird, window, windows 7, windows explorer, windows vista, windows xp
Unable to Delete an IMAP Email Account in Thunderbird
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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Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 22, 2012
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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