Anti-virus software goes crazy with screen saver
Q. I have the screen saver on the Windows My Pictures slide show. The problem is, along with the picture slide show, I get a lot of clutter. Items such...
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Wiping out hard drive needs some software
Q. I am planning to sell my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2800 series, about five years old) and want to know how I go about wiping out my hard drive of...
E-mail access just a matter of right digits
Q. I cannot access my e-mail account through Yahoo any longer. I opened this account about 10 years ago. I have used it without any problems and I never changed...
How can I transfer old computer data to my laptop?
Q. I have a desktop computer, and I want transfer all the information from my hard drive to a laptop. What is the procedure? -- Dianna Joslin A. The safest,...
All is not lost: Here’s how to retrieve missing file images
Q. I don't know much about computers, but to begin with, I lost all of the photos that were on my Windows ME computer when I upgraded to a new...
U3? USB? What’s going on with small memory drives?
Q. In recent columns you mentioned using 512 megabyte USB memory drives. In that vein, could you explain, in English (!), the pros and cons of the new U3 flash...
Put the pep back in your computer by purging a few files
Q. My laptop is about a year old and is becoming slower and slower. I have heard people say that I need to delete things such as temporary Internet files,...
Grandkid’s on/off games are driving PC, me crazy
Q. Recently, because of some corruption (which occurred, I think, due to frequent playing by my 2-year-old grandson with the on/off switch), when I open the My Computer folder, it...
When I uninstall a program, why won’t it go away?
Q. Sometimes when I try to uninstall programs that I download and try then don't like, I'll try to use the uninstall routine that came with the program, or use...
What keeps bad guys from picking the lock on my browser?
Q. I have read that to protect yourself from the bad guys when transacting business online, e.g. using a credit card, you should only use sites that display "https," instead...