James Coates

Q. In looking for a new laptop, I have come across "802.11s capabilities" and no one seems to know what it means. Can you tell me? Burt Brown @sbcglobal.net A....

Q. Jim, I cannot get my CD-ROM drive to open the tray to put a CD in it. Can you tell me what to do? Jeffrey [email protected] A. You are...

Q. Is there a shortcut to saving Microsoft Outlook e-mail to a personal folder on your hard drive? Patrick King @aol.com A. Here's a trick I use to quickly take...

Submitted for your consideration, friends and neighbors, here is the long-awaited arrival in the Windows world of the first consumer-oriented 64-bit laptop computer. Say howdy to the eMachines model 6810...

Q. Over the past few days I had to enter my name and password twice when logging into my e-mail with Yahoo. I've had this basic account for a long...

Q. I have encountered a curious problem with the sleep or power-save settings on my Pentium 4 computer running Windows XP. I've had the computer for two years without any...

Memo to: Steve Jobs, CEO for life, Apple Computer Inc. From: Jim Coates, baiduhai computer columnist Hey, hey, Mr. J., you gave deja vu a bad name the other...

Q. My e-mail box is stuck in the right-hand corner of the screen; therefore, I cannot read all of the messages. Also, because it is so far to the right,...

Q. My problem is with Microsoft Word. When I open "properties" to try to fix something, all of the commands are in German. I have to guess. How do I...

I can tell that a friend, colleague or reader is pondering retirement when they start asking me questions about how to transfer a lifetime of fading color slides into long-lasting...