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Well, we’ve come around to the end of another year, fellow Geeks!  Only 52 short columns ago we were welcoming in 2010, and now we’re ready to do the whole New Year thing all over again.  It’s been another banner year here at It’s Geek to Me, and at the Geek Lights on the Corner.  […]

Merry Christmas my faithful geek minions!  I say that now, almost a week before Christmas, because by the time my next column comes out, Christmas will have come and gone.  I’m sure for many of you that will mean a new PC or laptop under the tree this year.  This week’s column is intended to […]

Dear Bernie,  It’s possible that my HP PC with Windows 7 is going into the garbage soon if I can’t get relief from the inability to get through security (or something) blocking my access to Ancestry.com’s enhanced census and other reports which are crucial to my genealogy research. Before this, with my Vista, it was […]

Q: I read your answer regarding the Internet Explorer “reset” button with interest.    However, before I pressed that button I decided to contact you about my problem first.  I have an 11 month old HP computer running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer.  I also use MS NBC as my default web browser page driven by […]

Q: I’ve had my Toshiba laptop for about 3 years.  I was having a few problems and had it checked out last January.  Since then after awhile (does not seem to be a predetermined time or for any particular reason) the screen goes dark (with a blue haze in the background, actually looks like the […]

Happy Thanksgiving Geeks, Geekettes, and Geek wanna-bees!  I realize it’s still a bit early to say that, but by the time my next column publishes, it’ll be too late, and I’ll be wishing you a Merry Christmas instead.  Speaking of, for those of you in the greater Niceville area, the Geek Lights on the Corner […]

Q: Every time I try to run an update for my Adobe reader in my Windows XP computer I get an error that says “invalid F:/ drive.”  The F drive used to be my Seagate external hard drive.  I started having trouble with it trying to reset itself all of the time so I moved […]

Q: In trying to clean my computers I know that a deleted file isn’t really gone. It only has a wild card inserted in the name sequence.  Where do I go to fully eradicate a file or files completely? (Is there a DOS wildcard to search for them all? File name and extension)   – Cliff […]

Happy Halloween all you Geeks!  I hope you have found a technologically sufficient way to celebrate the occasion!  For me, this marks the start of Christmas Light Show season.  The latest wave is already beginning to appear in some of the big box stores, and it will only get better as the season goes on.  […]

Q: I’m having trouble opening “hyperlinks” that come in my e-mails.  Can you help me? – Teresa R. Odessa, Tex A: Well, Teresa, “having trouble” doesn’t give me much to go on, as there can be lots of ways for trouble to manifest.  Are you getting an error message?  Is the browser opening, but the […]