September 2005

Virus Free Backups

  Hello Computer Lady, I am using an external hard drive and a backup program to save multiple sets of backed up files.  I am saving a total of 5 duplicate sets of backed up files, scheduled to backup once per day.  My question is if a virus invades one of the newer backup sets, […]

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Axielbal Winter

aXiebal Winter Works in Windows  http://www.ideesoftware.com Be sure to click on the American flag for the English version of the website. aXiebal Winter is a game of skill and puzzles that will give you hours of fun. Play alone or with a friend, select one of many game types and difficulties, and roll the little ball […]

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IE Download Settings

  Dear Computer Lady, My computer is 98 windows Compaq. On the download dialog box the “close when download complete” is checked. The box disappears so fast no chance to work. I want to uncheck and have option to go to download folder. How?  Thank you, Dorothy in Arkansas 

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BVS Solitaire Collection

BVS Solitaire Collection  Works in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Cost: $19.95   BVS Solitaire Collection 5.4 is an award-winning collection of 390 solitaire card games and it includes a lot of original variations you won’t find elsewhere. BVS Solitaire Collection features: “Show Next Move” command, multi-level undo/redo, statistics for multiple players, selectable backgrounds, automatic card moving, restart […]

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Burn Music CDs

  Dear Computer Lady, When I burn a music file to my cd-rw and then try to play it on an external device like my Walkman, or Sony disc player the disc will not play….what am i doing wrong? TD

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Excel Address Book

  Dear Computer Lady, I have Microsoft Excel.  On my old computer I had a program on Excel that had a place to type in names, addresses etc.  On my XP version however, there is no place to do this.  Am I missing something? Thank you for your help. Clara

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The Font Thing

  The Font Thing Works in Windows 95, 98, NT4  http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html The Font Thing is a freeware program for managing TrueType fonts.    With The Font Thing you can:

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Install Windows 98

  Dear Computer Lady, I just wanted to write to you, we have a windows 98 second edition computer. It was previously used for a business. We wanted to erase the entire hard drive. We went through dos and hit c:\format  and yes we formatted the drive. Now it will not let us reinstall windows […]

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Slow Computer

  Hello Elizabeth,  I have been receiving your letter for possibly a couple of years now, something that you have to be congratulated on because I have learned more from your letter than speaking to all the so called computer buffs.  I have emailed you on a couple of occasions without being lucky enough to […]

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Leave Mail On Server

  Dear Computer Lady, I have been encouraging my parents to check their emails regularly using outlook express.  They both have separate logins on window XP but have the same email address.   The problem is if one of them checks their email using outlook express in their in log, the emails go into their […]

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