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Q: I have a Dell desktop Studio XPS 7100 running Windows 7.  It has a neat feature to defragment the hard drive daily.  I have set the schedule, but it does not defragment as designed.  Is there a way to turn this thing on? I like your Christmas lights too. – Bill W. Niceville, Fla […]

The parking lot at Geek Tower was mostly empty this week, and the halls and offices of of Geek Central were eerily quiet, as I decided to give the entire research staff a few days off to celebrate.  Celebrate what, you ask?  Well, since you asked, this is the fourth anniversary of It’s Geek To […]

Q: YOu are abOut the Last hOpe I have tO get my prObLem sOLved. As yOu can see the Letters O, L, the dOt next tO the QuestiOn mark and the Number Nine dO nOt wOrk On this keybOard unLess I use the shift Key.  In Order tO get a LOwer case letter I have […]

Q: I’m hoping you can help me to avoid a nuisance that has popped up recently.  I’m running MS Vista on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, and it works fairly well.  I use Internet Explorer (IE) 8 to connect to the internet.  Lately, Windows Update has been wanting me to upgrade to IE 9.  I made […]

Q: I’ve been wondering for years how to use the Print Screen key, so I was excited to try your directions in today’s paper (I.G.T.M #205. – June 26, 2011). Long story short, it didn’t work. I followed all the steps as far as opening Paint, but there was no image there to paste or […]

Q:  In my Notification Area I like to see my power charge, my volume control and wi-fi net icon. But every time I get a Windows update or Java update I lose those notifications off the taskbar. Then I have to remember how to get them back because when I right click on the taskbar […]

Q: I have Vista OS and the hard drive is divided into “C” and “D”.  It appears that Vista sends any file I make to “D” drive as backup. The “D” drive is almost full and I would like to delete those backup files. The following is what appears when I click on “D” partition: […]

Q: Will I be able to free up some space in my pc by deleting a bunch of downloads (e.g. .pps, .mpg)?  It’s giving me “your computer is running low on virtual memory” warning thing and webpage loads soooo slow, slower than being on old dial-up.  My OS is XP and it is a compaq.  […]

Dear, sweet, kind, gentle Geeks: I’d like to use a bit of precious column space to remind you that I.G.T.M. is a just a newspaper column.  There are a few people out there in Geek-land who like to think of it as a computer repair business, and who have unreasonable expectations of what they’ll get […]

Q: Last February my Microsoft scanner & camera wizard program stopped working.  When I plug my camera in a box appears with options to do.  It does not matter what option I click on the program does nothing.  When I click on accessories and scanner and camera wizard the computer will cannot find the camera.  […]