January 2012

How To Backup Chrome Bookmarks

Hello Elizabeth, Enjoy your site very much. Your information is priceless. I use bookmarks extensively and it occurred to me, if chrome crashes all those sites are not backed up. How can I store them on my external drive? I have win XP and use google chrome. Thank You, Sam from Berwick Me

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How To Remove Kindle Books From My iPad

Hello Elizabeth, I’ve subscribed to your newsletter for quite a while now, and have had some problems solved by you after reading questions posed by others. My dilemma now is related to my Kindle and my iPad. I love being able to download books to the Kindle which my husband and I share, and I […]

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How To Create Excel Template

Dear Computer Lady, Is there a way to set Excel 2007 so that a header and footer appear on all new documents instead of entering it on each separate document? I read your column all the time. Thanks for all you help, Jayne

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How to Save Favorites & Mail

Dear Computer Lady, I have a newer HP computer about 2 years old. It has become slow at startup and lots of virus scan popups when its running. I think I should just reformat and start over but save my favorits and saved emails before I reformat to start clean. I can save documents on […]

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How To Set Up Signature in Live Mail

Dear Computer Lady, Your column continues to help so many of us. Thank you. How do I automatically have my contact information added to outbound emails under Windows (7) Live Mail? Charlie

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How To Make Details the Default View

Dear Computer Lady, Whenever I search for files on my computer, using a windows-based operating system (XP or Windows 7) I have an option to view them as Thumbnails, Icons, Tiles, List or Details – I usually like to see the files in a default view of “Details” with the most recent at the top. […]

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How To Clean Up iPad Cache

Dear Computer Lady, Thank you so much for 10 years of computer education and help! I have an iPad and I know you do, too. I know how to empty my Email Trash. My question is about all the other mucky muck than might be on my iPad because of downloads or websites I have […]

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Laptop Cursor Runs Amuck

Dear Computer Lady, The cursor on my lap top goes out of control. It repositions itself  when I’m in the middle of typing something for example… or it literally runs amuck on the screen. I know  that it’s a rather common problem from googling it, but no one seems to have a solution.  I hope you […]

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Installing Adobe Flash Player

Dear Computer Lady, How do you download and install Adobe flashplayer and does it cost anything? Thank you!!!!! Kathy

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How To Backup Outlook Express Emails

Dear Computer Lady, Two years ago, my pc crashed and I lost all the email folders and the files in each of the many folders. I was devasted. Now I have a 2 year old dell which i like and I have a lot of outlook express folders with files within each one. I would […]

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