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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 […]

Q: I have Dell Vostro 1700 with Vista, and added McAfee Security System at time of purchase, 9/2008, as well as Webroot SpySweeper. Over the past month, multiple updates seem to be crashing my computer.  I have been able to Restore back to some semblance of a working system but it is very slow and […]

Q: I have a problem that was frequent for a while, and I was about to ask you about it.  It then went away.  For a long time I haven’t seen it.  Now, suddenly it’s back and I can’t figure out why.  I’m running Vista on a Toshiba Satellite laptop.  The icons in the Taskbar […]

Dear Readers: It is my pleasure to welcome all the new “It’s Geek to Me” readers picking up the column over in Texas in the Odessa American.  The e-mails have already started coming in from your neck of the woods, and I look forward to conversing with many of you.  Welcome to the Geek side!  […]

Q: I receive emails often with pictures attached.  Sometimes there are a lot of pictures and  maybe I would like to print one or two but not all of them.  Outlook express will not allow me to do that .  Is there someway I can avoid printing all of them if I don’t need them? […]