Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters September 7st
This week’s email and on-line newsletters are now available:
* free weekly Terry”s Computer Tips email newsletter
* weekly on-line Terry”s Computer Tips newsletter
This week’s online newsletter includes:
* Excel and the Scroll Lock Key
A site visitor comments on how the scroll lock key helps navigation in Excel…
* Malware By Email – This Week
See the little "presents" that VIPRE found the emails I received this week, and learn why you don’t want them…
* My Security Software Recommendations
My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…
* Notebook Hard Drive Failures, Again
The joys of having a notebook as your main computer. Just one hard drive, and when it starts to go bad…
Terry, Microsoft’s auto update of SP 3 on my XP Home SP 2 OS was an unmitigated DISASTER (!) and required me to do a format and reinstall of XP SP 2. Then I saw that TechRepublic was kindly offering an ISO download of SP 3 of which I took advantage and burned myself an SP 3 install CD (with install wizard). After disconnecting from the Internet and shutting down everything in my notification area, I ran the install CD of SP 3 which went off prefectly. On rebooting, better stability was immediately discernable. That was three months ago and I have had no problems whatever. I suggest this as a good way to install SP 3. Thanks for the excellent newsletters and for pointing out the very suspect conditions included in Google Chrome’s EULA. Kindest regards, Bob, South Africa.