December 2012

How To Remove IE History

[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I find your information to be valuable; however, I have not been on this list very long. I do have a question, I have Windows 7, how do I delete all of the places I have look at once or twice? Thank you so much, Valerie

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How Many Backups Should I Keep?

[ad#mozy] Dear Computer Lady, I’ve received your newsletters for years. I can’t count the ideas from it. My question is, how many complete hard drive back-ups should I keep on my external hard drive? My internal hard drive in my H-P is one Terra-byte, and my external one is also the same. I use Acronis […]

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Internet Explorer Print Too Small

Dear Computer Lady, I have Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. For some reason the print size on web sites has gotten very small. How do I get it back to normal? Thank-you, Barbara

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IP Address Error Message

[ad]Dear Computer Lady, Once recently I saw a message on my screen “Another computer with the same IP address is on the network.” Now does this mean I have been hacked? My second computer was OFF. What info might the “rogue’ computer have access to? Everything in my files? What about my browser history? How […]

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Editing Emails on AOL.COM

Dear Computer Lady, Hi, I am using AOL.com on my laptop and when someone sends me an email with a background like flowers etc. How do I remove it? I was able to do that on the actual AOL program from a disc but not AOL.com thanks, Cecile

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Free Dictionary Program

[ad]Dear Computer Lady, Two or three years ago you gave us one of he best free dictionaries that I have found. You pulled it up by depressing the ctrl key and right clicking with the mouse. I use Windows XP and lost it recently while trying to update it. Will you give it to us […]

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Floppy Disk to USB Drive

Dear Computer Lady, I Have a camera that uses 3 1/2 inch Disks and I would like to know were I could get a 3 1/2 inch disk drive USB port to use on my computer to down look at or down load Pictures. This is still a very good camera. Any help would be […]

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XP Mode in Windows 8

Dear computer lady, Is Windows XP Mode available for Windows 8? Thank you in advance for your help. Ren

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How To Archive Outlook Messages

Dear Computer Lady, I’m a recruiter and maintain client/candidate folders in Outlook 2007 (v12). I keep all correspondence, which over the years has built into hundreds of folders and thousands of messages. I have searched for ways to move this info for storage but the only solution to date would be to open each message […]

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How To Take A Picture Of Your Screen

Dear Computer Lady, How do I take a picture (snapshot) of a page? Sometimes for work when I am composing email, I want to show what I am talking about. Please – help! Thanks, Elaine

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