Wow, tons of great questions this week from Donna, Deborah, Craig, Jay, Chris, Larry, Gloria, Jack, Ralph, James, Robert, Darren, Leo (who just said hi), Marge, Janette, Joyce, Leo Jason, Emir, Bob, Glenna, Enoch, and Alice.

In order, they asked questions about installing Flash in Firefox, a stolen email address, moving to a Mac, viewing large pictures sent as email attachments, removing spyware (2 in a row), HP scanning software, fake update emails, improving boot up speed, a laptop screen problem, transferring favorites to Firefox from IE, opinion about ThreatFire, how to send smaller pictures via email, adding a photo to a blog, using Picasa to create special effects, Windows 7 launch party question, where to find computer components locally, missing desktop icons, backup recommendations, removing the Quick Launch toolbar, how to copy & paste, and what’s up with McAfee Security Scan. The answers to all these questions and more are located in these two videos: Continue reading →

This week’s questions are brought to you by Mike, Todd, Paul, Randall, John, Bob, William, Warren, Bob, Raymond, Che, Dennis and Monica. In order, they asked questions about; digital camera repair, lost CD drives, Vista startup nags, deleting Facebook account, programs for checking drivers, stubborn desktop icons, lost search feature in XP, lost password for helpmerick.com??, free Microsoft Word download, wireless Internet connection, Internet monitoring software, unknown startup program, and one more username/password issue.

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Chalmers paid to have his question read first this week followed by questions from Radha, Greg, Briel, Violet, Sue, Betty, Donna, Gary, Marty, Howard Kristen, Ariane, Robert, and Don. Chalmer’s question concerned a very old computer, and in order, the other questions were about a programmers application conflict with Vista Aero, Ubuntu users group, changing desktop wallpaper, screen resolution problem, trouble subscribing to my newsletter, saving photos from email, another screen resolution issue, CCleaner problem on a laptop, AVG installation, printing list of music after burning a CD, another wallpaper problem (related to spyware), more spyware problems, and a clarification Continue reading →

This installment 60 of Rick answers his email (cue the balloons and dancing girls). Questions this week are from Robert, Paul, Jose, Henry, Blane, Clare, Romero, Mark, Robert, and Paramount. They asked about Word 2007 typesetting, backing up photos to CD/DVD, monitor problems, Microsoft Continue reading →