Questions from Anne, Sue, Walt, Hilary, Bernie, Rodney, Rosie, Ron, Jack, Thomas, Romy, Jose, and John about Skype, AutoPlay, Audio DVDs, AVG upgrade problems, mysterious web addresses, open wireless Internet connections and much more answered in this week’s edition!
Joe has posted the notes from our fist Linux Users Group held a couple of weeks ago. Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 from Noon-1:30pm at Main Street Bagel. Keep an eye on the Grand Valley Linux Users Group web page maintained by Joe! Thanks Joe.
Today, I visited my 2,500th customer! I love milestones and always strive to look for them and then achieve them in almost everything I do. I started my business here in Grand Junction, Colorado a little over 13 years ago and have been pounding the pavement ever since. I never would have stayed in business this long if not for… Read More »Thank you Grand Junction & Western Colorado!
Over the past six months, the spyware problems infiltrating both Windows XP and Vista has become almost mythical. Spyware is the junk that gets into your computer and slows it down, prevents antivirus software from doing its job, halts Windows updates, can disable your CDROM and/or USB drives, and much more. The vast majority of it turns out to be self-induced. By self-induced, I mean that the user willingly downloaded ring tones, free music, free wallpaper, screensavers, registry cleaners, or other junk software. Even with the best security software on the planet installed on your computer system, agreeing to install junk software circumvents your security and the problems begin.
How can you prevent it? First start by protecting your system properly with the tools I have listed on every page here at HelpMeRick.com. You will find them in Read More »Another plea for you to use Mozilla Firefox
Windows Vista users need to be on the lookout for the new version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8. Hopefully most of you are using Firefox and this won’t matter, but if you are an Internet Explorer users, do not install this optional update for at least a couple of months. Already it is known to cause conflicts with other… Read More »Internet Explorer 8 will start showing up in updates
I’m still having video sync problems with my software, but I’m hammering away at your questions. This week there were questions about Microsoft Silverlight, Internet Explorer, converting YouTube videos to DVDs, Content Management System advice (CMS), printing questions and much more from Patrick, Joel, Dave, Jacob, Sue, Rande, Clive, Phyllis, Bob, James and Paul. Have a look
Many of these types of articles have been written on the Internet, but I don’t think I ever did one. These are the five pieces of technology that I consider essential to my digital life.
I didn’t get 10% voter turnout after almost 10 days, but those who did vote voted for changing the new email newsletter update to once per week instead of daily. So starting today, the newsletter updates will come to you weekly every Monday. Also, my effort to increase email membership is failing miserably. I really need your help to get… Read More »Email Newsletter/Update changed to once per week
I’ve been writing about and using Zoho.com’s useful and robust online office programs for years (search the site for Zoho), and now finally they are getting some national media attention as well. Digital Domain – Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word – NYTimes.com.
This is part 2 of this week’s videocast edition (YouTube only allows 10 minute videos…unless you pay). This edition includes questions about Microsoft Outlook, Windows 7, Firefox, more AVG questions, FoxIt Reader, disappearing cursor, and much more via questions from: Neil, Tom, Roy, Gloria, Joan, Taggie, Marianne, Deb, Sandy, Jim, Marty, Dan, Carl, Bob, Garry, Anne, Patrick, Don, Manny, Paul… Read More »Rick Answers his email Videocast – 039