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Dear Computer Lady,
Short description, I bought new Dell AMD Hard Drive, after seven days
of help (for hours) from computer wizs at Dell, they finally fixed the
drive, problem I.E. 8. Removed it and everything worked fine. I don’t
know if I am at I.E. 7 or I.E. 6, and I never want to speak to those
people again. [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I have a dell laptop with vista. Whenever I type a letter t, a new tab opens up. I know there must be a simple solution, but I can’t figure it out.
Thanks, Deborah

Dear Computer Lady,
I created a DVD of my wedding photos – spent days and days on this project, was so excited to get it all done. Once it was complete, I realized that the computer I created it on does not have a DVD burner (only a CD burner). I got frustrated and [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
How can I eliminate reminders from HP to register a printer which I no longer have?
Thanks for any help you can give me. This is very annoying to receive these reminders on an almost daily basis even though I check “do not remind me”..
Mary

Once you have created events in your Google calendar, you have different options for receiving event reminders. You can have reminders emailed to you, sent via cell phone text messages, or if you keep your calendar open most of the time, you can have simple pop-up messages in Google Calendar itself.

Google Calendar Lesson
Adding events to the calendar.
Now that we have created our own calendar, and adjusted the basic settings, it is time to put our appointments and events in the calendar.
Google calendar appointments can be one time events, or events that repeat on a regular basis. You can have them just show up on the [...]

Fizzball
Works in Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
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Google Calendar Settings.
When I start using a new program, I like to go to the settings and customize the program to my preferences. There are lots of things that you can customize in the Google Calendar settings, so let’s take a look.
To access your Google calendar settings, open your calendar, and click on the link [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I purchased Office 2007, home and student edition for XP and I thought it had a calendar feature, but it does not. I wanted to be able to use it to upload my work schedule and sync to my IPhone.
Office 2007 only has outlook express. Do you know of a compatible program that [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I have been a fan of yours for a while. I hope your pup is doing better.
My question is I recently bought a new laptop (my 50th birthday present to myself). I used Detto to copy files from my old computer to my new one.
I have a friend who [...]