James Coates

Q. I know you are a busy person, but I was wondering if you can tell me how to set up Windows so that when I open a Web page...

I don't know if Apple Computer Inc.'s stunning product releases like the credit card-size Nano music player spring from CEO Steve Jobs own brilliance or that of somebody who works...

Q. I purchased a scanner about four years ago that captured Web pages and stored them in a special folder using software called PaperPort by ScanSoft. It no longer functions....

Q. How do you change the view settings in Microsoft Word 2002 so files and folders appear by name instead of icon? That is, making the change in one fell...

Stephen Wolfram's visualizing software Mathematica stands high on the list of stuff a serious scientist must have. But there's a mad scientist in us all, and for Wolfram the madness...

Libretto (Italian: booklet), plural Librettos, or Libretti, text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. --Encyclopaedia Britannica The Libretto is a sub-notebook computer line (mini-notebook) designed and...

The latest entry in the race among AOL, Google, MSN and Yahoo to win customers with free stuff comes from Yahoo, which adds a slick Outlook-type interface as a beta...

Q. Something is wrong with my Musicmatch program. Every time I turn on the computer and the desktop appears, I get this window: "This application has failed to start because...

Q. I read one of your columns about someone having issues with their CD burner and you suggested increasing the priority setting. I'm starting to have similar problems and can't...

Mr. Computer Answer Person has a Labor Day tradition. Each year he uses this holiday devoted to honest laborers to give his computer a brain transplant. With personal computers it's...