How to disable trackpad when typing on your laptop

First look for a button or hot key combination that your laptop might provide to disable the trackpad or adjust its sensitivity…that will be the best method. However, if you cannot find or don’t have that option, these two downloads may help you type in more peace with your laptop: TouchFreeze TouchPadPal ...

Print only what you want – Multi-tip

How many times do you curse at your printer when you print a joke from email or some web page information and get two or more extra sheets of paper with useless information? Follow this tip and experience printing bliss from email or Internet and your word processor too! On the web, Select the text (by clicking and dragging with your mouse) that you would like to print Click File and Print from the menus (don’t click...

Extricating Spyware

Article updated: July 2010 In 2004, spyware/adware became the #1 threat to personal computers. For a definition of spyware, visit Webopedia. Getting rid of spyware has reached a point that it takes an expert, or a lot of persistence, to really get rid of it totally. Following is a list of steps that we frequently take to completely restore a compromised computer. Depending on the level of problems, we may omit some steps,...

Missing file names under documents or photos in th...

Lately, more than a few people have had trouble with missing file names in the thumbnail view of some of their folders. It isn’t entirely apparent why this happens, but fortunately the cure is pretty simple. If you are one of the poor souls who happens to be missing their file names, follow these steps: Open the offending folder to see the thumbnails Click View from the menus (or the view button on the toolbar), and...

Print just what you want…

I am resurrecting this great tip from my archives. This tip first appeared about four years ago on the show and then the web site. I wanted to share it again because of our new listeners and the extreme usefulness of the tip. Printing information from the web can sometimes be frustrating. A long web page yields reams of paper when you only wanted a couple of pages. Read on to learn how to print only the pages you...

zamzar online format conversion tool

Thanks to ‘deadman’ in the chat room who helped us out this week in discovering this great online conversion tool. Even though it is still in beta, we want to help get the word out so that folks support this project. Convert PDF to RTF and much more!

McAfee Removal Tool

If you work on computers, or you have an old copy of McAfee on your computer, you will definitely want to download the McAfee Consumer Removal Tool and run it.

How to Create PDFs in Ubuntu

For those looking for a way to create PDFs in Ubuntu – this seems to be the most popular solution.

Data Execution Prevention solution

Here is what Microsoft has to say about the Data Execution Prevention Error.

Uninstall Client for Netware

Here’s how to uninstall Netware from you computer: Click Start Click Control Panel Double-click Network RIGHT Clic on the Local Area Connection icon Click Properties Click the Client services for Netware option in the list of services box Click the Uninstall Button Click Yes Click OK That should do it. ...

How to get around Windows XP user password

A caller recently inherited a computer with a password enabled for getting into Windows. Here are two ways to disable or delete the required password. 1. Turn on the computer. 2. Immediately begin pressing the F8 key over and over in about half second intervals. 3. A menu will come up asking how you want to boot – choose SAFE MODE. 4. Windows will come up with two user accounts, click on the Administrator account. 5....

Missing Control Panel icons

Kathy has some missing icons in her Control Panel of Windows Me. I would suggest downloading Microsoft's Tweak UI and then under the Control Panel section, check the "Rebuild Icons" and Repair button. Here is the link for the Tweak UI program for Windows Me: Download TweakUI ...

Opening WordPerfect documents in OpenOffice

One of today's callers was having problems getting WordPerfect documents to open in the OpenOffice Writer word processor. The best thing to try is: Have the most current version of OpenOffice installed Start OpenOffice Writer Click File –> Open Change the file type to WordPerfect, then find and double-click the document Here are some resources for more information on opening WordPerfect docs in...

Disable iChat

We believe we found the answer to how to disable iChat on the Mac.

XGA, WXGA, UXGA etc. Monitor Resolutions Explained

VGA – 640 X 480 SVGA – 800 X 600 XGA – 1024 X 768 QVGA – 1280 X 960 SXGA+ – 1400 X 1050 UXGA – 1600 X 1200 QXGA – 2048 X 1536 QSXGA+ – 2800 X 2100 QUXGA – 3200 X 2400 WIDE SCREEN RESOLUTIONS WXGA – 1280 X 800 SXGA – 1280 X 1024 WSXGA+ – 1680 X 1050 WUXGA – 1920 X 1200 QSXGA – 2560 X 2048 ...