Turn for help to find firewall in Windows XP
Q. You have written about the firewall that comes with Windows XP, and how difficult it is to find. I have XP Home edition, and I cannot find it. Unless...
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PowerPoint as movie file fills projector’s role
Q. I volunteer for a non-profit organization that sends teenagers to do community work in Latin America for the summer. I have created a terrific PowerPoint presentation that provides all...
Some have heard, but too many join stampede for PC protection
When it comes to advising readers about how to cope with hackers, viruses, worms, script attacks and such, writing this column can be akin to staffing the abstinence booth at...
Missing features vex preinstalled software users
Q. I have a new Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 4300 notebook PC. I'm having trouble using the preinstalled Corel WordPerfect Office 2002 program. The "Greeting Card" feature doesn't work--when I try to...
Gruesome `swap thing’ just won’t die
Q. For the preparation of a PowerPoint slideshow presentation, I copied a fair number of photographs from a professional magazine's home page onto my hard drive. After finishing the presentation,...
AOL lets users block pop-ups; Google tool free
Q. I'm writing in the hope that you can tell me how to defeat those exasperating pop-up screens that constantly interrupt me on America Online. They say SYSTEM ALERT TO...
Point and click to delete pesky duplicate e-mail
Q. I somehow created duplicate e-mail messages that are so numerous (3,000) that going through them manually to delete would be too onerous and take days to accomplish. I have...
Worms derail laptop talk, spur advice on minimizing damage
Today's column will offer one worm-bitten wretch's advice about some unconventional ways to prevent getting overrun by worms, viruses, dialers, jokesters, blended threats, macro viruses, Trojan horses and other Internet...
PrismIQ pumps Net music to stereo system
Q. I live in Peoria, where the kind of radio programming I like is quite limited. (At least we have Morning Edition and All Things Considered.) The Internet enables me...
PC Anywhere, broadband can work together
Q. Currently, I use Symantec's PCAnywhere to connect my home computer with my office computer via dial-up connection. I am switching my home Internet connection from dial-up to a broadband...