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Q: In the research I do I often search for images in Google. I use IE9 and have Win7 Home Edition. My problem is that when I find the image (which is a hyper-link) that I want and I click on it the IE just sits there and does nothing. Sometimes it freezes up altogether. […]

Q: When I start my Toshiba laptop (Satellite A505), I have recently been getting a dialog box with the title “taskeng.exe”. It has a few words about MS Windows and then disappears. This dialog box has only appeared within the last two months.  I googled the title and got the following information: “This is the […]

Q: I bought a new computer two months ago and had the person I bought it from transfer all my files from my old computer. I use this in my office with all computers hard wired into a network. My old computer is still hooked into the network. I use Outlook for email and have […]

Q: The message “MS Office Word has stopped working” comes up when exiting Word. This has been happening for quite some time. I have searched the net and tried remedies with no success. I have reinstalled word with no success and I have upgrade from 2003 to 2007 to 2010 with no success. Is there […]

Q: Whenever I go to a website for information, on the screen appears the following phrases:  “Security Warning — Do You want only website content that was delivered securely?”  there are also 2 boxes on the screen; one says YES, the other NO.  I click the yes box.  This never happened when I went to […]

Q: Internet Explorer Security popup keeps popping up every time I click on a site saying website wants to open web content for Adobe Flash Player – Adobe Systems Inc.  How can I stop this? – Linda L. Odessa, Texas A: My knee-jerk reaction to your question is to say “Well duh – install Adobe […]

Q: My computer CD drive was missed from my XP computer so I had it reinstalled by computer repair shop about four month ago.  I just realized that I cannot copy to the CD from my Picture folder but if I put in a CD and play it will work. The pop up sentence on […]

Q: I’m an old guy, and not too bright on these computers. I hope you can help me.  Whenever I try to get on certain websites I get a pop-up with the following: Top Banner = Microsoft Visual C++ RUNTIME LIBRARY, then in the box below Program C:\ PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXP\ ixplore.ex.  Sir, I have […]

Q: I am a long time PC user (Windows XP) and plan to switch to the Apple iMAC very soon for reasons that are too numerous to mention here.  I have many documents and files that I wish to transfer over to the iMAC along with numerous software applications, i.e. MS Office, Adobe Photoshop Elements […]

Q: I have an older iPod with my collection of older songs that I converted to MP3 and loaded but my hard drive fried and I lost everything because “I was going to back up everything later”. I got a new Computer and loaded iTunes but it won’t let me save the songs on the […]