Left hand digital cameras

A caller made us aware of a problem with most digital camera designs. She has a friend who is missing his right hand. Most digital cameras have the shutter release on the right side. Is there a solution? Yes. There are a small number of upright digital cameras on the market.  This is a picture of the new Canon TX1. While this camera is a little pricey, there are cameras with similar designs made by Panasonic, Sany and...

Changing tab settings in Internet Explorer 7

To open links in new tabs and many tab tricks try the following. 1. Open Internet Explorer 2. Click on TOOLS button at the far left and choose Internet Options 3. Click on the General tab (it is probably already open) 4. Click on the Settings button under the Tabs heading Here you can make all sorts of fun and exciting changes.

Properly Uninstall Norton Products

How to get rid of Norton Antivirus: 1. Go to Start – Control Panel (Start – Settings – Control Panel)2. Open Add/Remove Programs3. Now you will want to remove the following items: Anything that says "Norton" or "Symantec" in the title. LiveUpdate LiveReg 4. Restart your computer when prompted to do so Install AVG,...

Save a laptop from liquid damage

WikiHow posted a great article on how to save a laptop from a liquid spill.

IPCONFIG and NETSTAT Options

Ipconfig Switches Switch Effect /all Produces a detailed configuration report for all interfaces. /flushdns Removes all entries from the DNS name cache. /registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and reregisters DNS names /displaydns Displays the contents of the DNS resolver cache. /release < adapter > Releases the IP address for a specified interface. /renew < adapter...

Can’t read forwarded message attachments in ...

One of our callers today, Jeff, couldn't get forwarded emails to open if they were attachments. We believe this method may work to rectify the situation: Use the following steps to use the Clear Cache button in Outlook: 1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Other tab. 2. Click Advanced Options. 3. In the Advanced Options box, click Custom Forms. 4. In the Custom Forms box, click Manage Forms. 5. In the...

Copy Shortcut for a program to other Windows’...

Caller, Marvin, needed to have a program he installed in his user account be available to his wife and daughter. Here's the solution: 1. Make sure that when installing a program if the program gives you the option to install to just you or all users, choose All Users. 2.  IF, that doesn't bring up the icon to the other users, RIGHT click and choose Copy on the program's icon, then Click My Computer, double-click...

Turn off file sharing when connecting to wireless ...

Disable unprotected File Sharing on Windows XP Home If you use Windows XP Home Edition, then you should avoid sharing files over the campus network and make sure that file sharing is disabled on your computer. NOTE: File sharing is enabled by default when Windows XP Home is installed onto your computer. Since Windows XP Home does not support password-protected file sharing, any person or virus...

Getting the Mail Button back in IE7 – Revise...

When you upgrade to IE7 you will notice a total change in the interface. One of the big changes is a lack of menu bar and many of the old buttons. If you are in the habit of clicking on the little envelope in Internet Explorer to get into your email, you will quickly see that the little envelope is gone. Here's how to get it back: 1. Right-click on the bar where the buttons should be 2. Choose Customize Command Bar 3....

Microsoft Uninstaller Cleanup Utility

When you have a program that won't unstall, read through this page , install the program it links to and follow the directions. This program removes all of the install information from the Windows registry. From this point you should reinstall the program and then unstall it the normal way. ...

Vista upgrade workaround for clean install

Here is a link to a site demonstrating how to do a clean install of Windows Vista without having to install Windows XP first. It isn't the easiest process, but if you are confident enough and can follow the instructions, it should be a do-it-yourself project.  

Connecting computer to two networks

Allan wrote in and had this link for us from Microsoft to learn how to use a single computer on two networks.

Send large files through email

Some email providers limit the size or type of files that you can attach to email. YouSendIt is a good service we found with good reviews that lets you get around this problem.

How to get into Safe Mode when F8 doesn’t wo...

Some computers will refuse to go into safe mode no matter how quickly you press F8. If you are using Windows XP, here is how to force your computer to boot up with the safe mode prompt: Go to START->RUN Type 'msconfig' into the box (without the quote marks) Click on the BOOT.INI tab Check the little box that says /SAFEBOOT Click Apply and OK Restart your computer. To get your computer to stop booting up with the...

Opening WordPerfect documents

WordPerfect used to dominate the computer word processors. However, it is not as popular today, but occasionally you may receive an attachment in WordPerfect format and need to open it. To do so, you need a WordPerfect viewer program. Here are two: Microsoft's Word and WordPerfect document viewer (free) Quick View Plus (30 day trial)   The other option is to have the sender save the document as a RTF (Rich Text...