To install, the IE team recommends temporarily disabling your anti-spyware, anti-adware and anti-virus applications.
One of my subscribers asked “My question is how do I do this ?”
Read more in Turning off Antivirus, etc. for IE7 Installation
In all versions of Windows, whether you have one printer or more, only one of those printers is set as the “Default Printer”.
The default printer is the printer on which many programs will print, if you click their Print icon. Most programs also have a Print option under their File menu, which will display a [...]
We’re all used to our computer manufacturers preloading Windows, Windows Media Player, AOL and a couple other dial-up services, anti-virus trials, Microsoft Office trials and a bunch of other stuff.
I usually delete the junk quickly. Whether it’s a trial version of an antivirus I don’t want or a trial of Microsoft Office, I want the [...]
There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]
I received a question from a subscriber who asked:
A number of times I have seen you refer disparagingly of “Active-x controls”.
I have seen downloads that require Active X to run properly. I have read the definition of the program, but, I guess I am just dense. What is this thing, and why do you consider [...]
I received a question from subscriber Joseph Baker who was having problems with his Windows computer. For some reason, his “Switch User” button wasn’t working.
The Switch User function (Start Logoff) is a powerful feature of Windows XP that allows multiple different IDs to use the computer– which would allow his wife to switch the active [...]