Archive for October, 2008

Turning off the copyright symbol

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Office | No Comments »

Whenever I type the letter C I get the copyright symbol appear. How do I turn this off? This is a Microsoft Word autocorrect feature. To fix this you'll have to ... Read more..

Word automatically inserts a capital letter

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Office | 1 Comment »

Microsoft word puts a capital letter at the beginning of each line, how do I stop this? First, don't start new lines by pressing the "enter" key. That key has a ... Read more..

Sharing a Windows Live account

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in email | No Comments »

I have set up a home wireless network with a main Dell desktop and a Dell notebook both running Vista home premium and Live Mail. Is there a way the laptop ... Read more..

about:blank when opening Internet Explorer.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Internet Explorer, Windows Vista, Windows XP | No Comments »

This 89 yr old must be a slow learner. My Vista home prem has picked up "about:blank".  Please point me to a  s i m p l e  way to delete.  The about:blank ... Read more..

No photos or links in Outlook Express

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Outlook Express, security | No Comments »

When I open my incoming emails from Outlook Express, any photo or image has been removed from it's box and I'm left with a cross which doesn"t open when I ... Read more..

An unknown application is trying to change your default search engine

Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Internet Explorer, security | 3 Comments »

I have Windows XP and I use google as my default search engine. I recently downloaded a new version of Bear share and ever since then several times a day a ... Read more..

Stopping Quick Time updates

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Further to our post on disabling unsolicted downloads, here are the instructions on disabling Quick Time’s update services. In Windows, click Start, Control Panel  and select QuickTime. The QuickTime preferences panel has a ... Read more..

Do I need anti virus on a Mac?

Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in Apple, Buying a computer, security | No Comments »

I currently have a PC with CA Virus checker, Sygate Personal Firewall, Adaware and Spybot. I am thinking of changing to an IMac at the end of the year.  Do I ... Read more..

Expired security certificate error

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 Posted in Internet Explorer, security | No Comments »

When i try to open my mail on yahoo internet explorer, it says that the security certificate authority is not valid or has expired. So,it asked me to proceed and i ... Read more..

Disable Real Player updates and message center

Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in software | No Comments »

Further to our post on disabling unsolicted downloads, here are the instructions on disabling Real Player's services. Click the Windows XP Start button and click Run then type realplay and click OK When Real Player opens ... Read more..

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