May 2018
How To Watermark Photos
Dear Computer Lady, Good morning and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I have read your Q&A section and learned and shared so much over the years. Could you please tell me more about how to water mark photos? Thank you, Cathy
Can’t Find The Sleep Option
Dear Computer Lady, First I would like to thank you so much for your expertise. I have been getting your newletters for years. I just bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series Laptop computer. There appears to be no sleep option for the computer, just hibernate, shutdown and restart. Do you know why this might […]
Computer Freezes When Antivirus Updates
Dear Computer Lady, Thank you for all you do for us folks who are not computer savvy! I have an annoying problem, hope you can help. I have Malwarebytes and also Emsisoft installed on my desk top. My computer freezes(needs to recover webpage) everytime Emsisoft installs updates(which seems like every time I need to do […]
How To Resize Start Menu Tiles
Dear Computer Lady, I am a long-time reader of your wonderful newsletter, which continues to give me absolutely great info. My question is about Windows 10: I have pinned many programs to my start menu in the tile section, but there are too many items and they won’t all display because there’s no room, so […]
Yahoo New Privacy & Terms
Dear Computer Lady, I love reading your newsletter as I am not a computer literate person and it helps me a lot. My question is when I want to log into my email I keep getting this Yahoo, New Privacy and Terms letter. I always click on I’ll accept later and then I can go […]
Increasing Storage For iPhone Photos
Dear Computer Lady, Thank you for all your help over the years. I have Windows 10. How do I increase the internal storage on my PC for iPhone photos? I have 29.8 GB free space. I have used 28.5 GB space, which leaves me with 1.22 GB space remaining. Thank you for your help. Robert […]
How To Delete Messages in Thunderbird Mail
Dear Computer Lady, I read you column each week, like some folk do the Bible. I’m new to computers and do not fully understand the e-mail system in Thunderbird. But I’m worried when I receive e-mail from someone I don’t know and to be honest I’m scared to open them because they might contain viruses. […]
How To Compress jpeg Photos
Dear Computer Lady, A friend introduced me to your site…I love it and I thank you. How would I reduce a JPG photo that was taken by some else and downloaded on a CD for me? I have reduced it but I can not download the reduce one that I copied to my document folder. […]
Problems With The Number Lock Key
Dear Computer Lady, I am having rrouble with my “Num Lock” key. It seems it turns itself off and if I don’t notice that the num lock light is “off” and use the number keys, they do not work (print). Is there a way to fix this problem? Thanks for your help, Joe
3 Surprising Tricks to Backup & Restore Using Thumb Drives
Dear Computer Lady, I have a question about backing up my computer. I have seen recommendations for external hard drives and automatic backups to the Cloud and so forth. Every month, I copy the files I want to keep to a thumb drive. Is this sufficient? What else should I be doing? Thank you! Mike