Ask The 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 feature. Thanks for all the help thru the years and I hope one day you will give lessons for Windows 7.

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 newsletters are terrific. I learn something new from almost every one.

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 time. Is there any way I can make them appear continually, or at least a longer time?

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

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 I do wrong?

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?

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 panel”.

Hope you can understand this. I use hotmail as my email.

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 have to click at least three times before my worksheet is sent to the printer.

Do you have an easier way?