Backup OE Messages

Archive for January, 2009

Backup OE Messages

By The Computer Lady on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady: I need to reload windows XP on my hard drive. Can you please tell me how I an back up my e-mail files to my external hard drive and be able to retrieve them once my XP is reinstalled? By the way, I never miss an issue of your letter. Stanley

Saving Files in Vista

By The Computer Lady on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, I tried to save a document into the “My Documents” folder on Windows Vista, it pops up a box saying it was being stored into a temporary files and now I can’t find the document. How do I get what I save to go into the “My Documents” folder? Thank you, [...]

Why People Hate Vista

By The Computer Lady on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, I love your newsletter. You make things very easy to understand. Brief to the point and simple! I have passed it on to so many of my friends. You always rave about Vista. Every single one of my friends that has Vista has had many, many problems with it and hate [...]

Error Checking

By The Computer Lady on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off

Dear Computer Lady, I use Error checking and it helps my pc. Some people don’t even know where to find it in XP or why they should use it. I wish you would send some info on this in your newsletters. Everyone knew and used it in windows 98. Thank you, A

1/22/2009 Ask The Computer Lady

By The Computer Lady on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off

~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ The Dollar Stretcher presents Ask The Computer Lady Volume 12 Issue #4 [...]

Saved By My Backup

By The Computer Lady on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

Dear Computer lady. Just wanted to let you know that the Carbonite Online Back up is worth it’s weight in gold. I have writing two novels and about a dozen short stories and always save them after every update or revision (I thought) After not working on any of my writing for a few [...]

Create Email Group

By The Computer Lady on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments

Dear Computer Lady, How do I create a list of email addresses, to which I send the same message on a number of occasions? Thank you, Carol

Email Photos

By The Computer Lady on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Emailing Your Photos with Windows Photo Gallery: Windows Photo Gallery makes it easy to email your digital photos, but only if you are using a local, POP3 email program on your computer.