February 2015
OneDrive Was Using All My Bandwidth
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have been learning from and enjoying your newsletter for a long time. First I would like to help some of your readers. For 5 months I could only use my email account through Verizon for three days. The first day I would be warned that I had used 75% of my […]
OpenOffice has Crashed
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have Open Office installed instead of pricey Microsoft Office. All of a sudden I am getting a message when I open OO or any document that it has crashed. Document Recovery option usually fails. What do I do? Thanks for always being there for me and for everyone else. Laurel
Phone Calls from Windows
Dear Computer Lady, I receive almost weekly calls from some company that tells me that my computer is sending all kinds of information from windows out to the internet and they represent the Windows company and need to access my computer in order to fix the problem. This has been going on for a couple […]
Email Message Warning
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, For about the last three issues, your Weekly Newsletter email opens with this message at the top in a big red box. “This message could be a scam. The sender’s account may have been compromised and used to send malicious messages. If this message seems suspicious, let us know and then alert […]
Should I Backup To 2nd External Hard Drive
Dear Computer Lady, Read your newsletter every week & love it, have learned from it! I know how strongly you feel about backing up ones files. Is a 2nd external hard drive a good back-up for my 1st external hard drive, or am I being redundant? Gary (in Philadelphia)
How To Backup iPhone Photos
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I have over 3000 photos on my iPhone 4s. Should i put them on my computer or onto a disk? There are too many for one disk. How would I do this ? Kathy
How To Report A Facebook Account
Dear Reader, This week, I needed to figure out how to do something online that I figured I should share with all of you. The other evening, I was blissfully sewing at my machine, when my phone began to buzz with text messages from my children. They wanted to know if I was sending them […]
Downloading Streaming Video in XP
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I’m running Windows XP with Explorer 8 and since Microsoft stopped backing up Explorer 8 I have not been able to download music on You Tube to my Realplayer.. Is there anything that I cant download a program which will let me download from YouTube to my Realplayer??? Thanks, Sonny
How To Open .EML files
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, When I had XP and Outlook Express I saved some of my eml files because I wanted to make sure I would keep them. When I had to buy a new computer with Windows 7 it no longer uses Outlook Express and I have to use an online mailbox. I use gmail. […]
Scanner Won’t Scan Coins
[ad]Dear Computer Lady, I, too, have been reading and learning from your weekly posts, and now I have one. I’ve used an Epson 1650 scanner for years on Windows Vista to scan my coins, but it is incompatible with Windows 8. I still have it, but bought an Epson V600 scanner to use with Windows […]