One of the more annoying things about dialog boxes when you need to confirm or click OK, is the fact there’s no way of knowing exactly where, on your desktop, that the dialog with the “OK” “Cancel” buttons is going to appear. Sometimes it appears in the middle of your screen; sometimes on the left, sometimes on the… Read More »
Patty wants to know about system recovery disks Hey, guys! I’ve got a stupid question. What is the difference between the recovery disk that came with my Windows XP computer and a Windows disk? If you could explain this to me I would be very happy. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work. Patty Our answer Thanks,… Read More »
Jean is concerned about hackers stealing her Outlook Express passwords I have Windows XP. I am wondering where email addresses are stored other than in ‘stored user name & passwords’ via the control panel and User Accounts? Mine shows it blank…no passwords saved, yet when I ran the SIW program (System information for Windows by Topala Software Solutions)… Read More »
An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. In today’s world, there aren’t many pure ISPs left – most are huge media companies like Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. An ISP is supposed to provide you with Internet access. That’s what you’re paying an ISP to provide. Just like you pay the gas company to provide you with… Read More »
Again this week, we had one of our loyal subscribers send us a copy of a competing Windows newsletter who sent a special email to subscribers offering a “special deal” on a system information tool for $9.95 . Well that’s great, but since there are free system information tools that do the same things and provide the same… Read More »
Many of you will be getting new computers soon – Christmas is coming and all of that. And about half of you are still using Windows XP – and that’s fine. But those machines are getting older and the problems are going to increase – and in 2014 Windows is going to stop supporting XP which means you… Read More »