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Q:  In my Notification Area I like to see my power charge, my volume control and wi-fi net icon. But every time I get a Windows update or Java update I lose those notifications off the taskbar. Then I have to remember how to get them back because when I right click on the taskbar […]

Q: I have Vista OS and the hard drive is divided into “C” and “D”.  It appears that Vista sends any file I make to “D” drive as backup. The “D” drive is almost full and I would like to delete those backup files. The following is what appears when I click on “D” partition: […]

Q: Will I be able to free up some space in my pc by deleting a bunch of downloads (e.g. .pps, .mpg)?  It’s giving me “your computer is running low on virtual memory” warning thing and webpage loads soooo slow, slower than being on old dial-up.  My OS is XP and it is a compaq.  […]

Dear, sweet, kind, gentle Geeks: I’d like to use a bit of precious column space to remind you that I.G.T.M. is a just a newspaper column.  There are a few people out there in Geek-land who like to think of it as a computer repair business, and who have unreasonable expectations of what they’ll get […]