I’m often asked about how I handle passwords for all the different sites that require passwords. The questioner’s eyes get pretty big when I mention that I use random mixtures of letters and numbers for my passwords, and even bigger when I say that I use a different password on every site. The immediate question [...]
I received an email recently from a reader who was having problems with Outlook Express. As I have written several times recently, when you delete emails, they’re not really deleted — even if you “empty the deleted emails folder.” Your email program still has the email in its data file — it has only marked [...]
If you need to identify which program opens a particular file type, you can do that, and a lot more, using the Folder Options functions in Windows Explorer. To find Folder Options, open Windows Explorer (right-click on Start, select Explore). Then, on its menu bar, select Tools and then Folder Options… At this point, we [...]