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Internet Explorer 8 Beta problem

Reader Herman Barnes wrote to comment and ask about problems with the beta version of Internet Explorer 8:
Thanks for a great site. Ihave IE8 beta on winXP. My favorites star button won’t open. Star depresses like it’s going to to something but nothing happens. Recent activity were uninstall Norton Security and install AVG. Any ideas? [...]

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 [...]

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 Internet [...]

Making Viewed Fonts and Images Larger (or smaller)

Ever go to a web site and find that the fonts are huge? Or, maybe they’re too small for your eyes?
Our favorite web browsers, whether we use Internet Explorer 6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2, Opera 8 or Opera 9, have multiple ways for us to change the size of the words we see.
Some of [...]

Sunbelt Personal Firewall Review

Sunbelt Software has recently renamed their Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall to be Sunbelt Personal Firewall. It’s their personal computer firewall software package. SPF is available in full-function mode (paid license) and in a reduced-function free (licensed free for personal non-commercial use) versions. Actually, it is the same program — after the full-function 30-day trial, [...]

Filtering Web Content with Windows Content Manager

Subscriber Nena Richard wrote to ask:
In trying to keep grandchildren off “my space,” I loaded “content advisor.”Every site I open asks for a password and I can’t find how to delete it.
Please HELP!
Thanks,
Nena
I assume you mean the Content Advisor that is part of the Windows XP “Internet Options” menu. I’m not familiar with [...]

ie7-installation-turn-off-antivirus

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

Review: GoToMyPC – Remote Access to Your PC

As I wrote in one of my weekly newsletters, I’de been trying the 30-day free trial of GoToMyPC. I’m very impressed with this service and its capabilities.
GoToMyPC is designed to allow a PC user to access his computer remotely. This user might be a salesman, a tech support person, a business man who left some [...]

Why I Recommend Firefox…

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 [...]

Changing Your Web Browser Fonts and Font Size

I answered a question from a new Firefox user about font sizes. She had just installed Firefox and noticed that the fonts were smaller than those that she was used to seeing in Internet Explorer.
The “problem” is that we, as users, can change our default fonts and font sizes in our web browsers. Firefox even [...]