Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters August 17th

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:

*   VIPRE — Week Two
Looking even better. I’m converting my family’s PC’s to VIPRE now…

*   Icons Missing from Windows Status Bar
This Windows user is missing some of his usual mini-icons in the Windows Status Bar — and how he solved it.

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

*   Getting Control of Your Windows Start Menu
Your Start Menu is all jumbled, it’s hard to find anything, and it’s getting bigger. Get back in control.

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Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters August 10th

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:

*   First Look At VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware
This week, I began my evaluation period on Sunbelt Software’s new VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware program. I was promptly shocked — read why in this week’s online issue.

*   Wireless Printer Setup Problem
This week, I received a question from a site visitor who was having a problem setting up her new wireless printer.

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

*   Tabs in Firefox versus Tabs in Internet Explorer 7
Looking at some very useful features of the web browsing with tabs in the web browser window.

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Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters August 3rd

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:

*   Another Look at Optimize 2.0 - Five Months Later

I got Optimize 2.0 and was very impressed with the cleanup and speedup changes it made on my computer. Now, five months later, is it still a worthwhile tool?

*   What if Scotty Barks - Has WinPatrol Found Something?
I recommend that everyone use the free system-monitoring and system-control program WinPatrol. Scotty is its mascot — and watch dog…

*   My Security Software Recommendations

My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…

*   Making Word, Excel and Powerpoint Documents Open in Microsoft Office
How can you fix it, if the files open in the wrong program?

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Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters July 27th

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:

*   Microsoft SyncToy versus Karen’s Replicator
Two free programs to copy or back up your data files…

*   Help! I Can’t Connect to the Internet
Sometimes updates from Microsoft break computer communications. This reader asked for help in solving that problem recently…

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

*   After 4 Months, My Verdict on the iPhone
You’ve read the hype about the iPhone. Now, I’m writing about my real world experiences with it and what I think…

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Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters July 13th

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:

*   Using Acronis True Image Home 11 to Back Up to DVD’s
In a comment on my Terry’s Computer Tips blog, a subscriber requested that I write about how to use Acronis True Image to back up to CDROM’s or to DVD’s, as many people don’t have home networks.

*   A Happy Ending to PDF Problems
Long-time subscriber Scott Adler wrote this week that he was having problems with current Adobe programs. In particular, he had the same issue with Adobe Reader 8 that many of us have had.

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

*   Malware Silently Alters Router Settings — Change Your Router Passwords!
I’ve predicted it for a long time as a reason to change your router password from the default, and it’s now running wild on the Internet…

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Using the free Google Photo Screensaver

The Google Screensaver is one of the amazing free applications that is part of Google’s free Google Pack software package. Make your PC more useful. Get the free Google Pack.

The Google Screensaver is optional as part of Google Pack, but it’s one component that you should not miss. With it, you can have a screensaver that uses your own photos that you’ve accumulated and edited in Google Picasa, from Picasa Web Albums, from your own photos from folders on your computer that you specify (so you can use some photos as screensaver images, but not others), and from photo feeds (which defaults to “Default Google Photo Feed.”)

You can control how often the picture changes. You can also control the type of transition from one image to the next. The Visual Effect lets you choose Pan and Zoom, Collage, Wipe and Cross-Fade.

You can access the control panel…

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