ItsGeekToMe.co

Happy Memorial Day, Geeks!  To those of you lucky enough to still be employed in this economy – enjoy your day off, but please don’t forget the real reason for the day is to remember and pay homage to those who have served, and continue to serve our country and who defend the freedom we […]

Q: My granddaughter performed in a musical program and the video is on YouTube. I wanted to download to a DVD so I emailed it to myself and put it on a flash drive, then put it on a DVD, but it won’t play.  Is it possible to do this? – LeRoy T. Navarre, Florida […]

Q: Several friends, much more computer savvy than I, have said to leave the computer turned on, in sleep mode, rather turning it off when not being used. They said this helps the computer last much longer.  Other voices say, turn it off when not being used–otherwise it is vulnerable to being accessed by hackers, […]

Q: As a non-geek and an old one at that, I really enjoy your column, and I’m glad to know I can access some of your past columns on the web.  A few weeks ago, something popped up on my monitor as if it was from Google, so I clicked on it and downloaded it. […]

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 […]

Several of you have written in to ask about the controversy with Google’s new privacy policy that went into effect on March 1, 2012.  The main points of these questions are “What’s the big deal?” and “Should I be concerned?”  I can tell you what the deal is, but you’ll have to judge for yourself […]