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Archive for February, 2010


Quick Launch in Vista


Dear Computer Lady, I love your newsletter for many years now. thinking that uninstalling quick launch was the answer to my lower right side icon loading; i now realize that i need that handy program. can i get it back somewhere? i use vista home basic w/windows Jacqueline

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Auto Hide Taskbar

Dear Computer Lady, The bar that pops up at the bottom of my screen – the “task bar” I think it’s called – it’s got the “start” button on the far left side. Well, I can’t get the dumb thing to go away. It used to slide down and away, but not anymore! HELP! What [...]

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Internet Explorer Error Message

Dear Computer Lady, On my 5 year old laptop which does not have enough memory, every time I disconnect from the Internet I receive a message “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.” Options are: “Send Report” or “Don’t Send Report”. What am I doing wrong? Please advise. Gale

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Send File To Mail Recipient

Dear Computer Lady, When i right click on a file in my documents and choose send to then scroll down to mail recipient I get a message saying this. “there is no email associated to perform the requested action,please install an email program or,if one is already installed,create an association in the default programs control [...]

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Quick Access to Excel Commands

Dear Computer Lady, I read your answers faithfully, and I hope you can help me learn how to get used to the new 2007 version of Excel. It seems like finding common commands is a lot harder than it used to be. For example, printing my worksheet used to be one click, but now, I [...]

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Sending Photos in Outlook Express

Dear Computer Lady, I read your tutorial on “How to send pictures by email”. I followed your instructions successfully reaching the final step using Windows XP. Everything loaded just as you instructed except there is no “SEND” button on the email page which Windows xp provided via Outlook. It would seem that your instructions fell [...]

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