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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. […]

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 […]