How reliable is email in today’s Internet world? Perfect, isn’t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we’re doing is pushing around electrons and we’ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.
Whether we [...]
There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between [...]
In one of my Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters, I answered subscriber Peter Lieurance’s questions about reinstalling Windows XP.
The following week, I finally did the hard drive replacement that I had been planning. Ultimately, I returned unopened Seagate 200GB drive that I had just purchased and got a Seagate 250GB drive for the same price [...]
Recently, a Terry’s Computer Tips reader asked me about problems he was having in installing a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive in his computer.
We corresponded back and forth until the problem was solved.
Read about the SATA problems and solutions in Adding a SATA Hard Drive to Your System
I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death…
But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?”
The reason [...]
Sunbelt released CounterSpy 2 in early February. The new version features a new antispyware / antiadware engine aimed at providing much enhanced capabilities.
In addition, CounterSpy 2 has much improved memory usage and runs on XP, 2000, and Vista (32-bit only). I’ve already updated my computers to CounterSpy 2, which was a free upgrade [...]