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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 [...]

Speeding Up Windows XP - Fine-Tuning Visual Effects

With all the news about the cute graphics (often termed “eye candy” to denote its real value) of Windows Vista, we need to remember that Windows XP has some of those features, too.
Windows XP’s graphical interface defaults to a number of cute options that are worthless from a usability point of view — and [...]

Speeding Up Windows XP

Remember back when you got your latest computer? It seemed so fast, so much faster than your previous computer. Now, if it doesn’t seem to drag, it just doesn’t seem as peppy as it used to…
Part of that effect is our memory — not the computer’s memory but the memories stored between our ears. We [...]

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 [...]

Forwarding a Picture using Email

Reader Geraldine Astbury wrote recently with a problem she was having with Windows and emailing:
Hi Terry,
Please can you help me? When I do a right click on a photo and scroll down to ‘mail recipient’ it goes to my Mozilla email programme. How do I change it to go to either Outlook Express [...]