Ask The Computer Lady

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 up and [...]

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

Dear Computer Lady,
Dear Elizabeth! I am hurting! Need familiarization course on Windows 7, can you help? Simple, free, or reasonable cost please.
Willie

Dear Computer Lady,
I love your column. How to you feel about windows 7. I currently have windows XP. I have installed on that wordperfect 6.1 As as one of my word processing programs. I like it for it’s simplicity…. Will windows 7 accept this program.
Thanks, Sandy in Fryeburg, Maine

Dear Computer Lady,
Seems like MSN decided to remove the ability for an individual to add toolbars as you could in XP & Vista. Know of any good program or way to add the Toolbars back. I used to have one on the left that had my Desktop icons like Word, Excel etc. It would disappear [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I have been with you for many years, and this is my first question. I just purchased a HP PC and it has a wirless lan. Besides losing some of the wires is there any other advantage for having this feature and will it low my computer down if I do utilize this [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I am running an new Dell Home Premium computer with Windows 7. Somehow Mahjong Titans.exe was put on the desktop. Now the .exe will not open. I don’t know where it resided before the desktop, so I cannot replace it. Do you have a fix for this issue? Thanks for your help. Your [...]

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 did [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
Is Windows 7 fully compatible with the free download of Open Office?
Dick

Dear Computer Lady,
I have a new computer with Windows 7 on it and it is so different than XP or 98 or 95 that I have had previously. Are you going to have lessons on Win7 like you do for Vista? I haven’t been able to find out where to go to learn about some [...]