James Coates

The most commonly asked question I get from my friends and coworkers goes like this: "I (or maybe my kids) am/are tempted to buy a Macintosh but I am concerned...

Q. Ever since I opened the Microsoft Money Express personal finance software, it has been automatically running every time I reboot or switch on my computer. The program is not...

Q. Is there a way to change the default My Documents folder in Windows that most software looks to as the first place to save or retrieve files? I use...

The media barrage over the MyDoom worm attack pretty much glossed over something hugely important: This worm displayed programming expertise and cunning strategies far more dangerous than ever before exhibited...

Q. I'm a faithful reader of your column, trying to stay only a few steps behind my two laptop-powered 14-year-old sons who also act as my in-home IT department, though...

Q. Occasionally I get pictures with a .pps extension which will not open in Windows XP. I understand that this extension is used in Microsoft PowerPoint. Is there any way...

Today I'd like to show you how to solve 65,535 problems you may not even know you have when you access the Internet. The solution comes in the form of...

Q. I'm up in the North Woods working on a creative project and found a message on my computer screen saying it was a Windows Message and warning that I...

Q. It's no problem to find the year's high and low prices of stocks, but I have had no success in finding Web sites that also give the dates when...

In the beginning there was the 29-cent audio cassette tape from Kmart, and it held all of the data our early Apple, Commodore and Atari computers could possibly need. But...