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    time Posted November 8, 2009 * Comments(1)

    This week’s online newsletter includes:

    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

    Filed under: Backup, Communications, Computers - misc, Email, HowTo, Repair, Software, Software Reviews, System Control, Terry's Computer Tips, Updates, Upgrades, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP

    Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters October 18th

    time Posted October 18, 2009 * Comments(4)

    This week’s email and on-line newsletters are nowvailable:
    *   free weekly Terry’s Computer Tips email newsletter
    *   weekly on-line Terry’s Computer Tips newsletter

    Filed under: Anti-Spyware/Adware, Anti-virus, Computers - misc, Repair, Security, System Control, Terry's Computer Tips, Tips & Tricks, Upgrades, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

    Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters August 16th

    time Posted August 16, 2009 * Comments(2)

    This week’s online newsletter includes:

    *   Wireless Connections at HotSpots
    What’s worse? No wireless hotspot, or not being able to get your computer to connect?

    *   The Lighter Side of Technology
    This week’s computer technology cartoon at Terry’s Computer Tips.

    *   Thunderbird Plus Firefox Crash Problems
    Fortunately it’s not a common problem, but this reader has an occasional crash that makes Firefox act like it’s just been installed…

    *   How to Fry a Wireless Router or Two
    Sometimes your computer hardware goes bad for no apparent reason. Other times, there’s a reason, but you haven’t realized what it is…so it bites you again, and again…

    *   My Security Software Recommendations
    My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…

    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

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    Filed under: Communications, Hardware, Networking, Repair, Terry's Computer Tips, Tips & Tricks, Wireless

    Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters July 12th

    time Posted July 12, 2009 * Comments(3)

    This week’s online newsletter includes:

    *   Getting Control of Auto-starting Programs
    Pestered by all the programs that start automatically when you start Windows? They slow up the boot process as well as consume memory and resources. Get in control…

    *   The Lighter Side of Technology
    This week’s computer technology cartoon at Terry’s Computer Tips.

    *   Windows 7 — Setting Windows 7’s Power Options
    Win7’s power options are a lot more user-friendly than those of earlier Windows versions. Let’s take a look…

    *   Opening a Link in Email Crashes Computer
    A reader needs to solve an issue that causes occasional computer crashes…

    *   My Security Software Recommendations
    My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…

    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

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    Repair common errors in Windows XP and Vista
    Hard Drive Cleanup, Registry Editor, and more
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    Filed under: Email, Email & spam control, HowTo, Repair, Software, System Control, Terry's Computer Tips, Tips & Tricks, Web Browsing, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

    Lost CD and DVD Drives — Windows XP SP3

    time Posted January 28, 2009 * Comments(0)

    Site visitor Nick Pelto wrote me after finding one of the many articles on my web site (most of the newsletter articles become individual articles on the web site).

    Nick had the same problem that Delmer Tergarden had after installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Fortunately, Nick found and has shared the fix he found…

    Hey there. I recently (finally) got around to upgrading to XP SP3, and I had the problem with my CD and DVD drives described in this post — http://www.terryscomputertips.com/computers/windows-xp-service-pack-3-woes.php. I could find almost no resources about this problem on the ‘net at all, so I thought I’d tip you off to a potential fix — I was able to get both my drives working again by removing the UpperFilters and LowerFilters entries in the registry, as described on this page:

    Continue reading Lost CD and DVD Drives — Windows XP SP3

    Filed under: Repair, System Control, Terry's Computer Tips, Tips & Tricks, Updates, Upgrades, Windows XP

    More new articles at Terry’s Computer Tips

    time Posted November 10, 2008 * Comments(0)

    Filed under: Anti-virus, Broadband, Computers - misc, HowTo, Repair, Security, Terry's Computer Tips, Tips & Tricks

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