March 2011

Cubetastic Game Review

Cubetastic Game Review From Big Fish Games Works in Windows XP, Vista and 7. Also available for the Mac. I have never been very good at the old fashioned colored cube game, so I wasn’t very surprised when I was nearly stumped on the third level of this one, but with some serious thinking, I […]

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Remove Facebook Friends

Dear Computer Lady, How can I prevent people from posting on my Facebook page unpleasant mails or photos. When I try to delete them I am asked SPAM or ABUSE, and whatever I answer they do not go away! (You need to remove the person from your friends list) How do you remove friends? From […]

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Sort Email Messages

Dear Computer Lady, I have a 5 month old Windows 7 Home Edition computer. I somehow switched my most recent emails to start at the bottom. How can I get my most recent emails to start at the top? I tried to restore to a former date and they still go to the bottom. Thanks […]

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Erase Before Donating

Dear Computer Lady, I am wanting to rid myself of several old computers.  How can I make sure everything is deleted from it before I give them to someone else?  I don’t want any of my information left.  Is there a way to delete everything from the hard drive?   Thanks and Many Blessings, Heather

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How To Find Drivers

Dear Computer Lady, I love your site, I have learned more from you than taking computer classes. I want to know if there is a site I can upgrade my drivers free, not free scan but free updates. I have xp and just did a clean install. Thanks, Carol

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How To Use Webcam

Dear computer lady,                              How I love to read your very simple and straight to the point answers. My problem is that I just bought a windows 7 laptop which has a webcam.  I have no idea how to use the webcam.  Can you please explain each step? Thanking you in anticipation. Michael

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Cleaning Up Emails

Dear Computer Lady,   To start, love your site!  I know I received an email from you about cleaning up your emails by using a separate acct. for some things.  I’m getting lost with all my folders and where to put things.  I believe you said to get a gmail act. but I need the […]

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Missing Favorites Bar

Dear Computer Lady, I didn’t do anything that I know of, but I can’t see my toolbar in Google, with “Favorites,” etc. and the space to type in URLs. How do I get a “normal” view with these visible? Thanks for your help, Marianne

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Free Antivirus

There are still a couple of free antivirus programs, but, I would think twice before I depended on only free antivirus programs to protect my computer.

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Damaged Hard Drive

Dear Computer Lady, I recently lost my hard drive. (Don’t know why.) I hired a local computer repairman who told me only that I needed a new drive. He could not “rescue” my data. Could I send you my old drive to see if you can get it off and onto a cd or flash […]

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