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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 […]

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: […]