Solutions

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:

1. Open the offending folder to see the thumbnails
2. Click View from the menus (or the view button on the toolbar), and click Details
3. 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.

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

1. Highlight the part of the page you want to print with your mouse

2. Click on File ---> Print

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!

Here is a forum we found that may help Mac/bootcamp users adapt to Windows XP or Vista keyboard layout.

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.

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

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

Here's how to uninstall Netware from you computer: