October 2009

Password Protect Folders

Dear Computer Lady, Can I give certain folders in Document a password so that I cannot open them. If so how do I do that? Thanks, Peter

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Low System Battery

Dear Computer Lady, I have a Dell computer. I have just started getting this message; Alert System Battery Voltage is low when I turn the computer on. Where would I find the system battery and is it something I can take care of myself? Thank you, Barbara

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Programs to Speed Up Your Computer

Dear Computer Lady, Do you know if any of those web sites claiming to make your computer faster actually work? Thanks, Bob

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Phishing Aftermath

Dear Computer Lady, I stupidly gave my e-mail and password to an e-mail using the Verizon logo and you know what happened next.. Anyway I , with the help of Verizon, rectified that problem but now am receiving far too many garbage e-mails and wonder how I might stop them. I’ve tried everything but to […]

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Uninstall Programs

Dear Computer Lady, How can I eliminate reminders from HP to register a printer which I no longer have? Thanks for any help you can give me. This is very annoying to receive these reminders on an almost daily basis even though I check “do not remind me”.. Mary

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Outlook 2007 Viewing Contacts

Dear Computer Lady, I am currently using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 as my address book. In the former version (2002 I think) I could categorize groups and show them but then I could show all the contacts if I wanted. Since I imported the old list into the new software I am unable to do […]

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Remove Favorites

Dear Computer Lady, I just today found your Website, and it is absolutely the greatest, so easy to follow and understand your solutions, especially for a 70 year plus senior, that just recently purchased my first computer! Don’t know why I waited so long. I noticed that I have duplicated a few programs or files […]

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Corrupt inbox

Dear Computer Lady, I use outlook express for my email. I cannot delete any email in my in box. At first it was only email with attachments in my in box, the sent box and delete box was okay but now I can’t delete anything! I can send and receive but that’s it. About a […]

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Word Document Shortcut

Dear Computer Lady. You have helped me so much with your information, but I have a question. I have a very long document in Word that I add to daily and would like to reverse the order so that I don’t have to scroll down so far each day. Can you tell me how to […]

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Movie Database

Dear Computer Lady, I am trying to find a simple database program that will let me enter all of my movie DVD’s. All of my movies are on shelves in numerical order. I need to enter the movies into a database starting with the number and then the title of the movie. After all of […]

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