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Missing file names under documents or photos in thumbnail view

Rick — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:31:36 +0000

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 click Details
Hold the SHIFT key down on your keyboard and Click View from the menus (or the view button on the toolbar), and click Thumbnails

You should now see thumbnails with file names under them.

Print just what you want…

Rick — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:09:05 +0000

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 want!

Firefox/Internet Explorer/AOL

Highlight the part of the page you want to print with your mouse
Click on File ---> Print

zamzar online format conversion tool

Rick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:41:53 +0000

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

Rick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:54:18 +0000

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

Rick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:40:45 +0000

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

Data Execution Prevention solution

Rick — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:49:44 +0000

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

Uninstall Client for Netware

Rick — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:52:54 +0000

Here's how to uninstall Netware from you computer:

How to get around Windows XP user password

Rick — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:20:08 +0000

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. Once Windows starts up (it will look ugly, but work the same) go to Start->Control Panel.

6. Double-click on User Accounts.

This is where you have two choices:

Missing Control Panel icons

Rick — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:49:48 +0000

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

Rick — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:03:54 +0000

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 OpenOffice.