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 [...]

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 [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – December 4, 2011

This week’s email newsletter articles are: Prevent Windows Update Automatic RebootsLongtime subscriber Clif (who used to write the Clif’s Notes newsletter) wrote to ask for some Windows 7 help, since he doesn’t use it much: Hi Terry, Since you are often looking for problems to write about, I’ll share one with you. A few weeks [...]

Thunderbird Feedback from Subscribers

Subscriber Keith C wrote from Australia to comment on my Thunderbird 8.0 article recently: This latest Thunderbird (8.0) is a truly solid release. I used to notice some issues with earlier versions similar to what your article mentions Terry eg errors when sorting mail. Nothing like that since, rock solid Mozilla stability. Thunderbird is a [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – October 16, 2011

This week’s email newsletter articles are: Excel Problem “Too Many Cell Formats”I ran into an interesting (which, under the circumstances means aggravating and frustrating) problem this week with an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. I ran into an apparent bug in Excel 2007 which results in a “Too Many Cell Formats” [...] Not a subscriber? It’s easy [...]

Adding Another Address Book to Thunderbird

Subscriber James Biddle wrote asking for help with a problem he was fighting with Thundebird. Here, I’ve just started using Thunderbird, and I’m already getting questions that assume I know what I’m doing. Fortunately, it worked… I have a question about T-bird. I currently have 3 address books, Friends, Personal Addresses, Collected Addresses. I want [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – October 2, 2011

This week’s email newsletter article is: Reader Feedback on the Thunderbird Email ProgramAfter my articles in my recent email newsletters, in which I wrote about dropping Eudora OSE and switching to Thunderbird, I received several emails from current Thunderbird users. In one case, it was a question about something the reader couldn’t do. In this [...]

Using the Thunderbird Address Book When Sending or Forwarding an Email

Since I’ve started using Thunderbird, I’m starting to get questions about Thunderbird, too, like this one from subscriber Bert: I’m glad you like Thunderbird email – I have been using it for some time now and also think it is good. However, one thing that either I can’t figure out, or is a feature that [...]