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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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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. […]

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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

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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

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