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Q: I am working on a Dell laptop, Inspiron E1505, with Windows XP home edition, service pack 3, which I purchased in 2006. I use Mozilla Firefox as my web browser. Up until 10 mos ago, everything seemed fine – now, I keep getting a notice from my Norton Antivirus program that there is high […]

Q: I’ve been contemplating upgrading my old dual cored computer that’s maxed out at 2 gigs memory and running XP for a spell now, but after reading reviews, blogs, etc. on Windows 8, I’m on the fence. Being presumptuous, it’ll be interesting to hear your take on this latest “Thanks, Bill!”. – Robert T. Shalimar, […]

Q: How do I eliminate or stop this instruction across the bottom of the monitor, “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”. This comes up quite frequently and all I can do at present is close it.  Only options given are Ask me later or Don’t disable. My operating system is Windows 7. – Jim W. […]

Q: I am using McAfee for my security and I am not impressed. I am now looking for the best free security software I can get. Please help I am not a computer geek and need all the help I can get. I also heard getting rid of McAfee can be a problem, any help […]

Q: Is there a way to block all e-mail from a certain sites? ie: Could I block all e-mail from “username@gmail.com”. I’m getting e-mail from someone that keeps changing the username but has the same domain. Appreciate your articles. – Glenn H. Niceville, Florida A: I can think of a few ways to do what […]

Q: This is kind of a weird one. At least no one online seems to have an answer. About 6 months or so ago, I noticed that all streaming content – music on Pandora, songs on YouTube, lectures on websites – stream the video just fine on my computer, but the sound “clips” almost constantly, […]

Q: My Win XP taskbar icons suddenly changed to small. I managed to get two icons on the quick launch back to large, but cannot figure out how to get taskbar icons back to full size.  Enjoy your column, keep up the good work. – Glenn H. Shalimar, Florida A: For clarification, for my readers […]

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 […]