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Issue #223: October 30, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #222: October 23, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #221: October 16, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #220: October 9, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #219: October 2, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #218: September 25, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #217: September 18, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #216: September 11, 2011
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 […]
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Issue #215: September 4, 2011
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, […]
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Issue #214: August 28, 2011
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 […]
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