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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 […]

On this 10th anniversary of 9/11 it seems fashionable for everyone to ask “Where were you when the towers fell?”  Well, I was sick with the flu in a saggy old military cot in a 10×11 foot cinder block barracks room on Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul, South Korea.  I slept through the whole thing […]

Q: HELLO, I READ YOUR NOTE TO SOME ONE WHO, LIKE ME WANTED TO DOWNLOAD ‘OUTLOOK EXPRESS’ TO A WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM. YOU GAVE tinyurl.com/2ahcq7z AS THE ADDRESS TO GO TO FOR HELP. TRIED & TRIED, JUST GET  (SOME RATHER SUGGESTIVE-YUCK!)  STRANGE SITES. THEN HOW CAN I TRANSFER JUST MY ADDRESS-BOOK TO THIS NEW SYSTEM, […]

Riding in the car the other night, Spouse Peripheral asked me “If I’m on an Internet shopping site on my computer, and I put items in my shopping cart but don’t check out, how come when I go to the same site later on my iPhone, my shopping cart is empty?”   Well, to me that […]

Q: I have Window 7 Ultimate and Microsoft Outlook 2010.  My sent box will have the same message twice – in other words I send a message and it duplicates the message.  I’m told the recipient receives message only once but it clutters my sent box and trash box.  Also, I can only attach 5 […]

Q: I have Windows 7, IE9 and yahoo.com for internet thru Cox.  For weeks I have been unable to bring some sites up because of unable to open Flash Drive.  Looking at Control Panel add remove programs Flash Drive 10 shows installed.  I can run all programs using Google Chrome. – David S. Fort Walton […]

Q: I read your fix: tinyurl.com/27ao94m   [I.G.T.M. #210 – July 31, 2011].  I tried it and got sent to the Ask website.  I could not get to the Microsoft fix.  I am stuck as I can’t open links in websites or emails…   Contact my administrator… I will I am administrator…I don’t know what to do. […]