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August, 2012
Issue #266: August 26, 2012
Q: I’ve read your remarks about the danger of running our personal computers in “administrator mode”. What happens if we run them in whatever the alternative mode is? How will that affect everyday usage? Our household has 3 PC’S, running XP, VISTA, & WIN 7. – Louis A. Niceville, Florida A: Now that’s what I […]
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Issue #265: August 19, 2012
Q: Outlook 2010 has all of a sudden begun to freeze. Clicking on an email results in the screen going opaque and the [Not Responding] message atop the screen. Task Manager requires multiple attempts to shut it down. Happens in both normal and /safe mode. It appears to be triggered when clicking on emails that […]
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Issue #264: August 12, 2012
Q: I have 2 Dell Dimension desktops, both running XP. In the 4100, I have a hard-drive that has alot of info on it that I want to keep as well as pics, games, etc. In the 8250, I have a master and slave drive. The slave drive doesn’t have much of anything on it […]
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Issue #263: August 5, 2012
Q: Please send instructions for searching your archives; otherwise, here is my question. I am using latest version of Firefox. Have recently been experiencing pop-up ad windows even though I have disabled pop-ups. From what I understand from Firefox help, these ad are windows, not pop-up ads, and they can’t control them. Is there another […]
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