New Folder Shortcut

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New Folder Shortcut

By Computer Lady on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Thank you for all your help though out the years, it has made using my computer easier. Is there a shortcut key for making a “new folder”? I am using Windows Vista and every time I need to make a new folder I have to right click then hover over “new” then [...]

Move the Taskbar

By Computer Lady on Friday, March 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Thank you for your great newsletter, I always learn something new. I just read over your lesson on the taskbar, I can’t wait to see the same topic in a Windows 7 tutorial. I just wanted to make an observation. Since many notebooks and monitors now come with wider screens with less [...]

Time is Always Wrong

By Computer Lady on Friday, March 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Dear Computer Lady, I have a HP laptop. In the bottom right hand corner is the time.. It never is right. I go to control panel, set the time, click on apply then OK, and it is the right time, but then it runs 2 hours behind time. Can you help? Thank you, Barb

Show Notification Icons

By Computer Lady on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear computer lady, I too have received important help from your informative emails. Thanks so much. I have a question about the little far right box on the status bar. It only gives time of day, day of week, and date. By hitting the little arrow head other programs appear for a very, very short [...]

Quick Launch in Vista

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | No Comments

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

Auto Hide Taskbar

By Computer Lady on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Recently Changed Folder

By Computer Lady on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, I am running vista on my laptop. Every time i save a document in my documents it goes into a folder called Recently Changed. If i delete the contents of this folder i lose my document. Or when i save a document , then go to my documents folder, the document is [...]

Change Folder Name

By Computer Lady on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Dear Computer Lady, Your Letter each week is soooo informative . Thank you for all your help! I have a question, I have XP and when I name a folder and then decide to change it, How do I do that? Thank You, Carol

Easy Vista Shutdown

By Computer Lady on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Have you noticed that shutting down your computer is not as easy as it used to be now that you are using Windows Vista? When you click on the “Start Orb” and then click on the power button symbol, it puts your computer to sleep instead of turning it off. If you want to really [...]

Default Folder View

By Computer Lady on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Dear Computer Lady, Is there a way to set the Window’s Toolbar VIEW to default to Details instead of Tiles? Keep up the column of great Q & A’s. Dave

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