April 2014
How To Save OneNote in the Cloud
Dear Computer Lady, Love your newsletter. In today’s newsletter, you were answering a question about One Note which is a program that I love. You mentioned saving to the cloud and I honestly don’t know how to do that. Do you think you could explain that in one of your future newsletters? Since I have […]
Computer Clunking Sound
Dear Computer Lady, Recently I had to take my computer back to factory level because it was behaving as though it had a virus. Since then at odd times it makes a clunking sound. What is this? And can I eliminate it? I have a Hewlett Packard (5 years old) and Windows Vista. Thank you […]
Phishing Email Message
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have received this type of email (see below) a few times lately. My Kapersky account tells me it is a bad email. How do I handle these ?? ****** Yahoo! Your e-mail account has exceeded its limit and needs to be verified and updated, If not verified within 48 hours, we […]
Transferring Windows 7 to Windows 8
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, What is the easiest way to transfer everything from my old HP Windows 7 laptop to my new HP ENVY with Windows 8.1? Right now I am using both computers because I can’t seem to decide the best way to do the transfer. Thanks for all you do for us. Charlotte
Has My Hard Drive Failed?
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have a 4 year old quad core desktop running Win 7 Ultimate. All of a sudden my hard drive made noises and turned itself off. I ran Spinrite for 3 days and it seemed to “cure” the problem. However, the PC shut down after a couple of hours of normal use. […]
Best Program For A List
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, My prayer group meets weekly and prays for many people. We keep a list by category, say those with cancer, with heart problems etc. Could you recommend a good way to keep these lists of names on my computer by category so that I could add or delete names and then print […]
Internet Explorer Missing Toolbars
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, Somehow, either in the process of installing Internet Explorer 10 or after, I have lost all my tool bars? I mean ALL the tool bars like the file. print etc. plus the useful web pages I use. What happened and how do I get them back? You really do quite a service […]
Advanced Tech Support Scam
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, We bought a Windows 7 Dell computer last November and had techs set it up. So we thought we had Panda Anti-virus. Then when it ran out we bought Panda Anti-virus 2014 and we could not install it. So we called the Panda Company and according to their tech, we found out […]
Cleaning Your Computer
Dear Computer Lady, My Windows Vista goes to sleep everytime I dust the key board off. I try to avoid the sleep key (it has a moon on the button) but it’s very sensitive. I always have to shut down the computer completely and turn it back on to WAKE it up. What can I […]
FLV Media Player Alerts
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have started getting these messages-pop-ups that I need to download an updated version of a media player. When I do it just brings all kinds of problems. I am using IE 7/ What is trying to download is FLV Media Player Version1.3. Is this something I need? If not, how do […]