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How To Speed Up an Older Computer
Dear Computer Lady, I have an older PC with windows XP. Intel(R), Pentium (R) CPU 1.90 GHZ, 512MB of RAM. Is there any way to get more speed? Can I safely change from XP to Vista Home? I already...
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Ccleaner For Erasing Hard Drives
Dear Computer Lady, I just read your recent newsletter article regarding Darik’s Boot & Nuke program. I use a program called Ccleaner and it has a “Drive Wiper” included in the “Tools” section...
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Speakers Not Working After New Windows Install
Dear Computer Lady, We are trying to get the sound to work on a new Windows 7 installation. It previously worked through our external speakers, but now only comes from the monitor. What are we doing...
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Computer Beeps
Dear Computer Lady, I was bragging to my son (in his 50′s) about being on your news list and how much I enjoyed it, and what a great help you are to so many people. He responded that he couldn’t sign...
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How To Set Up Dual Monitors
Dear Computer Lady, You commented on having two monitors. Love the idea but how do I hook them up and have them show different things at the same time? I tried and only have the 2nd one duplicate the...
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How To Clean My Laptop
Dear Computer Lady, Is there any easy way to clean (literally!) my laptop? I have 2 cats who shed and also are very good at kicking up litter dust so I’m sure that there is a bunch of “stuff” inside...
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Join Two Computers to One Printer
Dear Computer Lady, I recently purchased an Asus laptop and would like to set up my printer to it though it is now hooked up to my desktop (HP)…. Is it possible to have two computers joined to one...
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How To Recover Data From A USB Stick
Dear Computer Lady, Is there any way to recover data from a memory stick that shows blank? I’ve been using a memory stick for a couple years now, and it has a significant amount of important data on...
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Software To Backup Hard Drive
Hi Elizabeth, longtime subscriber, Love your site. I saw in today’s newsletter in the first question response — that a virus or other malware can cause so much trouble it’s better to just backup your...
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Mouse Clicks Twice
Dear Computer Lady, When I click on say my mozilla firefox unless I remove the cursor immediately I get multiple windows of my Google home page. The same happens when you click on the back arrow if...
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Printing Highlighted Text
Dear Computer Lady, My question is how do I print a high lighted part of an e-mail ? I have a Toshiba laptop and Lexmark 4850 printer. Any help or suggestions ? I certainly enjoy you e-mails. Many...
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Files Are Gone After Recovery
Dear Computer Lady, Hello my name is Bob, and I really could use the help of an expert!!! I have a dell dimension desktop 64 bit gaming computer using window’s vista home premium. I was in safe mode...
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Transferring Movies from Camera
Dear Computer Lady, I have a Sony digital camera and use the Sony picture software. Recently, I took movies of my grandson’s band and some still photos. When I transferred them to my computer, only...
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Webcam Software
Dear Computer Lady, I have a Dell XPS 420 with a built-in webcam and my OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit. My problem is that I can only open the webcam when I’m on Skype. How can I open the webcam...
View ArticleBlack Screen White Print
Dear Computer Lady, Something I have never seen before happens every time I turn on my PC. A black screen with white print comes up informing me — “performing auto IDE configuration”. After awhile the...
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Print to OneNote
Dear Computer Lady, I have an HP lap top computer, Gateway NV35A AMD Phenom ii X2 n660 running Windows 7. It has a program called OneNote that comes on every time I want to print something and wants...
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IDE Configuration Message
Dear Computer Lady, Something I have never seen before happens every time I turn on my PC. A black screen with white print comes up informing me — “performing auto IDE configuration”. After awhile the...
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Computer Hard Drive Damage
Dear Computer Lady, During one of the strong tstorms a couple of weeks ago, my desktop computer went down. The internet modem was fried and I needed a new one. Questions: Any way of getting off or...
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Blue Screen of Death
Dear Computer lady, I have just had my first and hopefully my last bout with “The Blue Screen of Death.” I have windows 8.1 on an HP desktop. The tech that got me back working again, feels that the...
View ArticlePrinter Memory?
Dear Computer Lady, My printer has broken down and I am getting a new one. I have read that discarded printers have a memory that could be accessed by whoever got ahold of it and knew how to do it, and...
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