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November, 2014

Issue #384: Nov 30-Dec 6, 2014

Q: Recently, short audio ads will boom from my laptop. Some have been for automobiles or insurance, and don’t seem to be related to any ads on web pages I may have left open. They are so loud I can hear them rooms away. I will delete my browsing history and reboot and the problem […]

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Issue #383: Nov 23-29, 2014

Q: I’m running Windows 8.1 on an Asus N53S laptop. During a recent trip after several days of no problems I tried to access the internet via the motel’s WiFi and found the laptop’s WiFi adapter turned off and the WiFi switch greyed out. The [fn]+F2 key combination has no effect. Attempting to fix it […]

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Issue #382: Nov 16-22, 2014

Q: Lately some spammers have spoofed my email address and are sending out spam with my address in the “From” and/or “Reply To”. As a result my inbox is being flooded with bounced emails coming from whenever the spammers use a bad “To” address or when the recipient has an active anti-spam mail box that […]

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Issue #381: Nov 9-15, 2014

Q: I can no longer open Excel or Works. I get a message, “click-2-run configuration failure”. What can I do? Are the programs lost? – Dave L. Niceville, Florida A: No, they’re not lost, Dave. In fact, I’m pretty sure that, in a sense, they were never really on your computer in the first place. […]

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Issue #380: Nov 2-8, 2014

Q: Your thoughts and suggestions for understanding various computer problems have always been my most anticipated read for the Sunday paper. Your solutions have always been my mid-week project, and are always “spot on!” I hope you can help with this situation.  Over the last ten or twelve years I have used a system of […]

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