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Q: I have two questions for you. First, I have seen an increasing number of television ads for computer programs that can be downloaded which either ‘speed up’ one’s computer. Are these ‘TV ads’ truthful? I realize that they are not free and are a ‘pay for services’ operation, but are they all and do […]

Q: I read your column every week and have learned lots of valuable stuff. I bought this laptop new about a year ago. Trying to open an attachment to an email, it asked me which program I wanted to use to view it. I mistakenly selected ‘Word’. Now whenever I try to open an attachment […]

Q: I got a new camera and accidentally deleted the pictures on my memory card! Do you have any ideas where to take it so it can be restored? In God We Trust. – Tammy S. Lakeland, Florida In God We Trust, indeed, Tammy. While I appreciate the sentiment, God doesn’t have much of a […]

Q: Hello! Sent from my iPod – Corey C. City Withheld A: Hello back! Sent from my newspaper column Q: I can’t save an imbedded picture using 2007Microsoft Outlook. When I have the e-mail open and right click on the picture the only option I have is “COPY”. This problem started a month ago. I […]

Q: I have both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Microsoft Security Essential on my computer. When downloaded the programs allowed me to set a time and date to run. I believe the programs are running but neither Malawarebytes nor Microsoft Sec. Essential runs the latest update. I have been performing this manually. I get a message “Some […]

Q: Please help. How do I get rid of this? It started coming through my e-mail. It states TXCONNECT ALERT. Cannot unsubscribe to this or reply to them to tell whomever to remove me from mailing list. Thanks for your help. Did you play football? You look like a football player. Dallas Cowboys could use […]

I think I may have been writing in some foreign language in last week’s column, because rarely has a column generated so much e-mail by reader-geeks who were either confused by it or simply couldn’t get it to work. Let us take this time to ease the collective consciousness of all Geekdom, shall we? First […]

Q: I read in your column about Google’s auto complete being a nuisance. This is especially true on older/slower machines (like mine). “Googling” the other day I stumbled on a process which helped this problem. Type what you’re looking for in Word Pad or similar program, then copy the entry, go to Google and paste […]

Q: I have Vista and loaded the Office 2010 Disc on my desk top computer. It seemed to load correctly and I put Word, Powerpoint, Excel and oneNote on my user account desktop screen with icons. As you can tell I am not a techie. All seemed ok. Then I opened my wife’s user button […]

Q: I read your column religiously.  After booting my laptop, it gave me a choice of starting in SAFE mode and 4 other choices … all led to the below message. Any thoughts? … the dreaded blue screen appeared with this message:  STOP: C0000219{Registry file failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software or […]