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A Look at Foxit Reader | Foxit Reader Review

November 15th, 2009 at 9:13 pm » Comments (0)

Recently, one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms.
I made a quick check and realized that the free PDF reader Foxit Reader would do this. While Foxit Reader also has a Pro Pack available to add additional functions, the free version does almost everything that [...]



ReImage for Windows XP

June 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pm » Comments (0)

I received a question from Adam, a Terry’s Computer Tips web site visitor recently, who was having problems with two of his computers:
Hey Terry, just read your XP SP3 woes, got another one two for you. i have a small home network running with shared internet connection. When SP3 came out [...]



Blocking Call-Home Attempts by Microsoft Software

January 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am » Comments (0)

A reader wrote to ask for more details about how I configure my firewall to block Microsoft.com’s call–home attempts:

In your Email Newsletter — Volume 3, Number 12 — September 3, 2007, article “Windows Genuine Advantage SNAFU” you say, “When they want to check in with Microsoft, they run into my copy [...]



XP Service Pack 3 Feedback

December 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm » Comments (0)

In my August 31st online Terry’s Computer Tips newsletter, I wrote about my experience trying to install Windows XP Service
Pack 3 on my notebook computer. Service Pack 3 didn’t like me.
This week, I got some feedback from Bob in South Africa on his experiences:
Terry, Microsoft’s auto update of SP 3 on [...]



More on Windows XP Service Pack 3

November 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm » Comments (0)

For the first time in a few weeks, I think the last week went by without any new reports from subscribers about problems installing XP Service Pack 3. That probably means that the rest of us are waiting for reports that Microsoft has solved and updated it to fix some of the incompatibility problems. Notice [...]



Which Program Has Locked My File?

October 31st, 2008 at 8:46 pm » Comments (1)

  
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One of the problems that plagues Windows users is the “locked file” problem. You know, the one that you [...]



CPU Running at 100 Percent

October 16th, 2008 at 8:50 pm » Comments (0)

Reader Scott Adler wrote about a problem he was having with his computer getting stuck at 100% CPU Usage…

to correct a problem I’m having with Adobe Updater I need to get to change the preferences
Start the AdobeUpdater.exe application from …”\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater 5″
[...]



Why Back Up Your Computer?

October 5th, 2008 at 9:13 pm » Comments (1)

As a long-time personal computer user, I learned the importance of backing up my data long, long ago.

There are just too many things that can go wrong when you’re working on your computer. Whether it is a hard drive that goes bad (or a floppy, in the old days), or a mental lapse on [...]



Broadband Problems and Questions

August 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm » Comments (0)

Recently, I received two interesting questions from U.K. subscribers. I wrote about and answered the other one, which was about external hard drives, in this week’s email newsletter.
In this question, subscriber Robin wrote about problems she is having with her broadband connection…
Hi Terry
I have a stand alone [...]



Optimize 2.0 Review – Five Months Later Review

August 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm » Comments (0)

Optimize 2.0 Review Number 2
Back in February, 2008, I bought a license for Optimize 2.0 and was very impressed with its cleanup and speedup changes it made on my computer.
Now, five months later, is it still a worthwhile tool?
As I ran the program on Friday night, it had been several weeks since I had used [...]