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Q: I just bought a new laptop with a 17-in. widescreen.  I am a little disappointed in the 17-in. widescreen.  I had thought the bigger the screen, the bigger the type would be on the screen.  But it seems the type is smaller than on my old 15-in. laptop.  I am able to increase the […]

Q: My daughter got the computer in her divorce and she said it was running slow.  I went in to see what all was on it.  It’s a 40GB, but all the free space she had left was 6.5GB.  I started cleaning out all the kids’ music, pictures etc and got it up to 12.6 […]

Q: I noticed a problem similar to mine in your March 20 response to Becky T.  I use Outlook Express 6 for email and have a problem deleting some emails.  Like her, I’m getting a pile up.  Some messages WILL delete from the Inbox fine; perhaps 1 in 5 doesn’t.  Can you help? – Bill […]

Q: I bought a new laptop that was loaded with Windows Vista.  My problem stems from the email system and I don’t really know if it’s related toVista or not – just thought I would pass along that info.  Quite often when I try to delete a read email, the message “unknown error has occurred” […]

Q: I somehow deleted some of my “Saved on My PC” folders.  I am not sure how it happened.  It might have been while I was add and deleting programs.  I have AOL 9.0 Security Edition SE.  And I have Windows XP.  Can you tell me how to retrieve these if they are still somewhere […]

Q: I bought some Avery labels that came with a program CD that was designed for MS Office, which I don’t have, and it would not install.  I do have a current version of Open Office that I just installed.  Is there any way that I can use it to load the Avery program?    […]

Q: have an older computer with windows 98 that started giving me warnings that I can’t seem to fix.  The first one is “The OLEAUT32.DLL file cannot start.  Check the file to determine the problem.”  I have found two of those files, but don’t know how to find or fix the problem. The second warning […]

Q: I used to be on Earthlink and switched to Cox high speed.  I have several friends who send attachments with a .eml extension.  When I switched to Cox, I could no longer open the attachments.  I used the Windows help and followed their directions but they still won’t open.  On the bottom of the […]

Q: I always use a computer at the public library.  Often when I sign into Hotmail, someone’s e-mail address is there.  They didn’t click on the two blocks below their password.  Isn’t that risky?  I might not be a nice guy. -Frederick N. Fort Walton Beach, FL A: Any time you use a computer connected […]

Q: I recently installed a Nero 7 program and now when I open a photo (jpeg etc.), it opens with the Nero picture viewer, which I don’t want.  How do I get it to default back to the Microsoft picture viewer program when I open a picture? – John G. Shalimar, FL A: This is […]