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Outlook Express Links Don’t Work

I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express.
Maria wrote:
Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added the [...]

WinPatrol - for System Control and Protection

I’ve written a number of times about one of the programs that I use on every one of my computers, including my family’s computers. Well, really on every computer that runs Windows — and I’ve been using it since well before 2004.
This program is a great protection tool called WinPatrol. WinPatrol allows me to [...]

Inserting Special Characters into Documents

Recently, subscriber Sandra Day wrote to ask me about a problem she was having. She knew one way to solve it — Word’s Insert Symbol dialog box, but that’s a pretty clumsy way. Here’s what she wanted to do:
Hi Terry! I have tried repeatedly to learn how to use a shortcut to insert a [...]

Printing Problems with the Print Spooler Service

Subscriber Jerry Munn wrote recently to ask about a problem where he couldn’t print from his Windows XP computer.
Also, can you tell me where to go to restar my printer spooler. We had several power failures this weekend and I no longer have any printer info on one of my computers. When I try to [...]

Quieting Windows’ Noises (and selecting other sounds)

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Do Windows’ sounds ever get on your nerves? In my case, I have [...]