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Note: When porting the columns over to this website, I discovered that I had accidentally given two of them the issue number of 143.  See, this is why I need computers — to keep track of details like this! -Geek Q: Over the past few months, five separate computers in my office have suffered a total loss of […]

Q: I don’t get this “malware” you keep talking about.  Isn’t it just the same as a bug?  Why don’t these companies just fix their software?  – R. N. Santa Rosa Beach, Fla A: An interesting question, and no offense intended, but it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what I’ve been trying to […]

Q: Whenever I close Outlook Express I get the following: “To free up disk space Outlook Express can compact messages.  This may take a few minutes.”  You then have the obligatory “Yes” and “Cancel options.  Well once I said “Yes” and it was the biggest mistake I’ve made with a compueter in a while.  I […]

Q: I have a simple system; Dell, 2.39GHz, 256MB of RAM and I run widows XP.  Everything runs great for my use, except Kodak Software for my pictures.  I download the pic’s, cut and paste them to the external hard-drive, delete the pics on the “C” drive if any, then go into Kodak Easyshare and […]