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Happy Halloween all you Geeks!  I hope you have found a technologically sufficient way to celebrate the occasion!  For me, this marks the start of Christmas Light Show season.  The latest wave is already beginning to appear in some of the big box stores, and it will only get better as the season goes on.  […]

Q: I’m having trouble opening “hyperlinks” that come in my e-mails.  Can you help me? – Teresa R. Odessa, Tex A: Well, Teresa, “having trouble” doesn’t give me much to go on, as there can be lots of ways for trouble to manifest.  Are you getting an error message?  Is the browser opening, but the […]

Q: I have Dell Vostro 1700 with Vista, and added McAfee Security System at time of purchase, 9/2008, as well as Webroot SpySweeper. Over the past month, multiple updates seem to be crashing my computer.  I have been able to Restore back to some semblance of a working system but it is very slow and […]

Q: I have a problem that was frequent for a while, and I was about to ask you about it.  It then went away.  For a long time I haven’t seen it.  Now, suddenly it’s back and I can’t figure out why.  I’m running Vista on a Toshiba Satellite laptop.  The icons in the Taskbar […]

Dear Readers: It is my pleasure to welcome all the new “It’s Geek to Me” readers picking up the column over in Texas in the Odessa American.  The e-mails have already started coming in from your neck of the woods, and I look forward to conversing with many of you.  Welcome to the Geek side!  […]