Ads at bottom of AOL e-mails won’t be going away soon
Q. Unbeknown to us, AOL has been inserting little advertisement messages into our outgoing e-mails, despite the fact that we have a paid account and use AOL as our Internet...
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How to transfer 8,000 family photos to DVD
Q. In the course of 40 years, I managed to take some 8,000 slide family photos, which are nicely stored in Bell & Howell little boxes. Now I want my...
Reinstall Media Player to fix glitch
Q. I received an update for the Windows Media Player, and now my player will not work. I receive the following error message: "To finish installing Windows Media Player, restart...
Temporary files causing long-term woe
Q. I am unable to right-click on an image on a Web page and save the .jpg or .bmp photo files as I used to do. A message comes up...
A fix that will set everything right, or left
Q. I use Microsoft Office at work, and when I start to compose a new document, the text alignment defaults to the center position. I can use the alignment icon...
Good options for retrieving e-mail photos
Q. Your recent answer to the question from Howard Hand about receiving e-mail with red Xs instead of pictures left out one important step. After clicking on Tools in Outlook,...
Old programs should be OK on new Vista
Q. I am quite old and computer-ignorant. I need a new computer, as mine is about 6 years old and on its last legs. I took your suggestion and waited...
He needs help deleting files from his PC’s hard drive
Q. I have often heard that even though you delete files, they are actually still retained in the hard drive and can be pulled up by any computer-literate person. Exactly...
My Word Art is too attached to my text
Q. I am having trouble with the Word Art tool in Microsoft Word that lets one create sophisticated lettering. When I create one of these elegant text graphics designs, there...
Web sites too small to read? Internet Explorer 7 has a solution
Q. Some time ago, I was told how to install a magnifying system that would magnify the small print on many Web sites by simply holding down my Control key...