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Q. My problem is that a porn page keeps popping up as my home page to replace the Windows Internet Explorer default page. It is some kind of page from...
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Q. Please help me. I have two PCs that recently began giving me a message: "PNTVideo.DRV is not found" or has not enough memory. Both computers have P4 chips and...
User hits .bmp in road while saving images
Q. Not long ago, my computer lost the ability to use the Web browser's picture download command to save images in the correct format. Instead, no matter whether the image...
Corel gives Office 2003 a run for less money
Here's the problem: You run Corel Corp. and have just released the WordPerfect Office 12, a suite of productivity software that's the closest thing there is to a competitor to...
Bandwidth test sites carry own messages
Q. After reading your answer to a recent question about how to check Internet speed performance, I felt compelled to write you. I have a cable connection with a minimum...
Default settings should find lost Recycle icon
Q. After I used a disc supplied by the manufacturer of my computer to correct a problem, I no longer have the Recycle Bin icon on my desktop. I have...
Sound advice on Media Player worth a listen
Q. I just received my first music CD for Mother's Day. My problem: I cannot get it to give me any volume using Windows Media Player. I do get volume...
Auto-update feature in need of a quick fix
Q. I'm running Windows XP, and, until recently, my system would automatically check for XP updates whenever I connected to the Internet. After installing the latest set of patches, however,...
Growing Google offers plenty of ways of looking at itself, others
With a nanosecond's nod to the great poet Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," today's column could be bookmarked on your browser as 13 ways of looking...
Camcorder plus Web equals high video potential
Q. I am using Roxio Video Wave Movie Creator that came bundled on my Dell to produce movies. I recently combined some footage that I took with my DV camcorder...