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Email of the Week – 011

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QUESTION

Name:  Joanne

From:   Portland, OR

OS:      Windows XP

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On May 27 you talked talked about the # of processes that open at Start-up. Following your instructions I found I have 60 processes opening. I went in and unchecked several I didn’t need, however when I go back to normal start-up at closing,restarting my computer and then again to into msconfig/Start-up, the problems are again checked. How do I keep them unchecked?

Thanks
I’m learning a lot from you, really appreciate it.

ANSWER

Thanks Joanne. (She’s referring to my tip about MSCONFIG found here.) You are doing everything right exceptRead More »Email of the Week – 011

Email of the Week – 009

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QUESTION

Name:  Patrick

From:   gj

OS:      Windows XP

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Solving email problems
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 | Email Tips | Rick

Rick, the two email tips in this post could not be found.  Are they still applicable?

ANSWER

Thanks for writing and thanks for finding more dead links here at HelpMeRick.com. Some of the tips here date back to 1996, when I first started this site. And the site has undergone many transitions and improvements since then.

For that reason, it helps me and many others who visit the site when I get a chance to correct tips like the one you were reading. To answer your question, the Read More »Email of the Week – 009

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 050

This week’s edition of questions come to you from Jason, Sissy, Marguerite, Vaibahv, Sue, Bruce, Rod, Terry, and Bobby. They asked questions about Ubuntu, DVD burning, setting up printers, displaying wallpaper, fake security warnings, Internet Explorer 8 updates, and more. Have a look!

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 049

Questions this week came from Carl, Kenneth, Dave, Thomas, Steven, Walt, Steve, Wendell, Shelly, Stefan, Rogene, JT, and Jean. Questions ranged from video editing. to the location of my shop, to French spell checking and more…have a look!

Computer Help Show Podcast – 06-17-09

Had a few calls during the first 15 minutes of the show this month, but then folks sat back and drank in all the tech talk goodness. Why don’t you do the same!

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 048

I was in Tucson, AZ last weekend so had to squeeze 17 questions in this week from Peggy (who paid to be #1), Rosemary, Chas, Thomas, Margie, Greg, Wally, Kathy, Chuck, Lenny, Kim, Paul, Mike, Clara, Anna, Dalynn, and Marguerite. They asked questions about Microsoft FrontPage, duplicate desktop items, converting VHS to DVD, kid Internet monitoring software, freezing computers, runtime… Read More »Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 048

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 047

Two more people, Lauren and Bruce, elected to pay for their questions to be featured at the beginning of the videocast this week. In addition to Lauren’s Vista SP2 question and Bruce’s email question, I answered questions from Romero, John, Brian, Yolande, Debbie, Bill, Bobby, Sheila, Ivan, James, John, and Don who asked questions about DVD installation, startup troubleshooting, reading… Read More »Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 047

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 045

This week’s questions are brought to you by Randy, Ivan, Terry, Kathy, Charles, Chuck, Mark, Edward, Dwight, Art, Don, Tom, Jim and David. They asked questions about IE 8 vs. IE 7, minimizing programs, broadband prices, lost passwords, Antivirus 2009 removal, video archiving, jumpy taskbar, high speed wireless, search engine hijacker, and upgrading RAM on a laptop. Have a look: