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 22, 2012
Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: computer tips, computers tips, computing, e mail, email client, imap, internet message access protocol, mozilla thunderbird, newsletter, subscriber, Thunderbird, tips, windows explorer, windows vista, windows xp
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
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
Displaying Hidden Directories and Files
Longtime 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 the internet at "T:\temp\Temporary Internet Files\IE5….". However when I open [...]
Filed Under: Computers, File system, Operating Systems, System Control, Tips & Tricks, Windows, Windows - Other, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: attrib, computer file, computing, directories, directory, displaying, file managers, files, filing, hidden directories, hidden file and hidden directory, hidden files, hidden folders, microsoft outlook, microsoft windows, show hidden files, special folders, temporary files, temporary folder, temporary internet files, windows explorer
Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 8, 2012
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 [...]
Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: 2012, ccleaner, computer tips, computers, computers tips, computing, internet explorer, microsoft, newsletter, outlook express, temporary files, temporary internet files, toshiba laptops
Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 1, 2012
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 [...]
Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: 2012, articles, automatic responder, computer tips, computers, computers tips, computing, microsoft, new computers, newsletter, publish article, subscriber, weekly, windows explorer, windows live, windows live mail, windows vista, windows xp
Friends Help Friends With New PC’s
It’s Christmas time — a lot of people are purchasing a new computer for their home, sometimes purchasing their first computer, or a computer for their children. Unfortunately, many of these new purchasers don’t know how to protect themselves properly on today’s Internet. That’s where we, as more experienced PC users (of whatever experience level!) [...]
Filed Under: Anti-malware, Anti-spam, Anti-spyware, Anti-virus, Computers, Firewalls, Free Software, Privacy, Security, System Control, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: computer networking, computers, computing, dsl modem, dsl router, friends helping friends, help, internet, internet security, internet services, linksys, networking hardware, new computers, pc user, pcs, residential gateway, router, technology, wireless bridge, wireless router
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
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