Dear Computer Lady, I have been a subscriber for several years, and have learned a lot from you. This is the first time I am submitting a question. I have a Lenovo ideapad 110S, with Windows 10. I use Firefox as my browser, and have uBlock Origin as my ad blocker. I have been entering […]

Dear Computer Lady: Thank you for all your help over the years. This is not a computer question per se. Why do so many sites, including Yahoo and Facebook have completely false information on the side of the site? For example, there are reports of deaths of celebrities, including movie stars and sports figures, that […]

Dear Computer Lady, Is it possible to set a wi-fi default in Win7? I have numerous offline tasks and prefer to keep wi-fi off until I need it. Thanks, Margaret

Dear Computer Lady, Do they have a “one note” in the google chrome world or is it a stand alone product? Thanks, Jane

Dear Computer Lady, I just noticed I have a new icon on my desktop… Tweaking.com. Don’t know how it got there. Do you recommend this window repair software? Thank you, Bru

Dear Computer Lady, I have read your e-mail for years and you have helped me a lot. I download windows 10. On 8, I could right click on a web page and get ‘CREATE A SHORTCUT” I can’t seem to do that with windows 10. . How can I create a shortcut on the desktop […]

Dear Computer Lady, I love your newsletter and learn so much from it. On my office computer, I am running Windows 7 Professional and have Internet Explorer 11. IE continually crashes, so that if I go to a web page and click on a link, it crashes. If I check my webmail, it crashes 4 […]

Dear Computer Lady, I have Cortana on my computer but haven’t configured it because I’m leery about surrendering the kind of personal security information that it requires. My wife would love to buy either Google Home or Amazon’s Echo etc. but again, I’ve resisted because I’m afraid of leaving our information and computers vulnerable. Are […]

Dear Computer Lady, On my Inbox e-mail page there is an icon that recently appeared. It says “this page wants to install a service handler.” Can you explain what this is about and what should I do? Thanks for your help. Dottie

Dear Computer Lady, I have 2 questions for you that I am hoping will be easy fixes. I keep getting a ‘long running script’ error on a lot of the websites I use. Is there something I can do to eliminate the problem? I do hit ‘stop’ which sometimes works but not always unfortunately. Also, […]