Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’


SMART Hard Drive Errors

Dear Computer Lady, Windows xp purchased in 2002 cybertron from tiger direct. Been having slow start up problems always get started but not easy latest problem computor said pri master hard drive disk s.m.a.r.t. status bad backup and replace. Also lots of error messages says program not responding.once said system has recovered from a serious [...]

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Error Checking

  Dear Computer Lady, I use Error checking and it helps my pc. Some people don’t even know where to find it in XP or why they should use it. I wish you would send some info on this in your newsletters. Everyone knew and used it in windows 98. Thank you,  A

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Upgrade RAM

Dear Computer Lady, Before my question, I must say when my brother sent me your newsletter many years ago he did me one of the greatest services a big brother can! May I ask how I can check the amount of RAM on my Dell laptop? It is only a couple years old, but things [...]

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Change Resolution

  Dear Computer Lady, Is there a way I can resize the displayed webpages so I don’t have to use the scrolling from side to side, basically I want to know how to see the entire webpage left to right without scrolling side to side. Thanks for any help, Angela

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Change Display Properties

  Dear Computer Lady, How do you change your color under properties from 16 colors to 256 and more. I have tried and it said it will happen if I restart the computer but nothing never happens. Will

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Firewall Protection

Dear Computer Lady, For the past 2 months or so, I’ve been getting these text-only pop up messages, even when I don’t actually have a web browser open.  I have a cable internet connection, not dial up so I’m always connected to the internet.  Some of the messages that pop up say that my computer [...]

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