How to Save Favorites & Mail

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How to Save Favorites & Mail

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I have a newer HP computer about 2 years old. It has become slow at startup and lots of virus scan popups when its running. I think I should just reformat and start over but save my favorits and saved emails before I reformat to start clean. I can save documents on [...]

How To Make Details the Default View

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Whenever I search for files on my computer, using a windows-based operating system (XP or Windows 7) I have an option to view them as Thumbnails, Icons, Tiles, List or Details – I usually like to see the files in a default view of “Details” with the most recent at the top. [...]

How To Backup Outlook Express Emails

By Computer Lady on Saturday, January 14th, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Two years ago, my pc crashed and I lost all the email folders and the files in each of the many folders. I was devasted. Now I have a 2 year old dell which i like and I have a lot of outlook express folders with files within each one. I would [...]

Lost Program Shortcut

By Computer Lady on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I had a tax program on my computer,It was listed in the programs. Some how I lost it from the program list . There is a short cut on the desk top to access it . How can I get it back onto the program list? Thanks, Johny

Upgrading from XP to Windows 7

By Computer Lady on Friday, January 6th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Dear Computer Lady, After getting your emails for several years now, I have a predicament I haven’t seen yet. My wife’s computer “bit the dust” so to speak. I did religiously have her HD backed up. My problem is her new computer has Win 7 Home Premium, and her old one had XP. How can [...]

Mozy Saved My Recipe File!

By Computer Lady on Friday, December 16th, 2011 | 6 Comments

This week, I had a computer problem that I want to tell you about, because it illustrates how suddenly and unexpectedly you can lose important data on your computer. As you know, I have been telling you about my new recipe program, Cook’n from DVO software, and how great it works. I have begun the [...]

Installing Service Pack 1

By Computer Lady on Friday, November 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Do recommend my doing the Windows 7 SP 1 update to my computer or are there any negative side effects yet remaining to the Win 7 Service Pack 1 update? Thank you for your reply, Tony

Should I Upgrade?

By Computer Lady on Friday, November 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Dear computer lady, I have a Toshiba laptop with XP windows that is about 4 or 5 yrs old, I have not installed either of the IE 8 or IE 9 updates. Is it to late to update or will I have trouble now if I do load in the IE 9. Also I was [...]

Can I remove Old Service Packs?

By Computer Lady on Friday, November 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I have enjoyed all your news letters. I have found a lot of help and very good ideas from you. My problem is… Is it safe to uninstall service pack 2 as I am now running service pack three, and the old service pack 2 takes up a lot of space. so [...]

How To Run Scandisk

By Computer Lady on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, My computer told me to run scandisk. I have XP. HOW DO I RUN THIS? THANK YOU, Dpaul

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