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Q: I use McAfee Total Protection as my antivirus.  I’ve tried to run other anti-malware products but the McAfee product tells me that they interfere with it and have to be removed.  I’ve used AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Malwarebytes in the past but always see the popups from McAfee.  When I once had […]

Q: I enjoy your newspaper computer Geek section–very helpful.  Question:  What could have happened regarding my ability to ‘post’ a comment to an online newspaper story?  I must have changed a setting in Windows because, the comment block is no longer showing at the end of each story to write a comment using Facebook. It […]

Q: I have a laptop and desktop, both running Windows 7.  Windows Live Messenger has an icon on the taskbar of both. I can run MSCONFIG and take it out of the startup listing. Upon reboot it is gone. But, at the second reboot it returns.  Do you have a suggestion where else to stop […]

For the humor impaired among you, last week’s column was a JOKE (April Fools!).  I trust none of you actually went out and attempted to invest your life savings in Micr-Ap.  But enough of this frivolity!  Let’s try to solve a few problems, shall we? Q: I activated Outlook Express to check on another browser […]

There have been some amazing developments in the world of tech this week, Geeks!  Let’s take a quick look at some of what’s making news. In what is sure to cause ripples through the computer industry for years to come, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook announced that his company has pushed through a successful takeover […]