TO SOME PARENTS, AOL’S BE-MY-GUEST OPTION INVITES TROUBLE
Q. Please pardon my chronic parAOLnoia, but I'm trying to minimize the risk of installing America Online for my teenage daughters. Can I delete AOL's Guest option, or at least...
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LOW-COST PC MAY BE BETTER THAN RAM-MING IN MORE POWER
Q--I have a three-year-old Compaq Pentium 75 MHz desktop PC with 24 MB of RAM. I would like to upgrade the processor as well as add additional memory. I'm having...
SWORN OFF WINDOWS? APPLE’S IMACS ARE RIPE FOR THE PICKING
Q--I have grown quite disgusted with Microsoft Windows 98 and its frequent stall-outs. My question (and problem) is what other kinds of OS are out there and how do they...
TAKE A SKILLED COMPUTER GUY OVER FARAWAY COMPANY ANY DAY
Q--I would like to buy a new, faster computer but am at a loss as to what to buy. I am hoping that you may be able to give some...
AOL’S MAIL CONTROLS DELIVER OPTIONS AGAINST X-RATED E-MAIL
Q--As of Monday, I started getting X-rated e-mails out of the clear blue. I can't imagine where they came from, but more important, I need to stop them immediately. You...
SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE SELDOM MEETS A LIST IT CAN’T MANAGE
Q--I have a couple of lists of names and e-mail addresses in text files. Is there any software out there that will compare list A with list B and highlight...
PC SHOPPING IS A SNAP WITH WWW.FILL-IN-BLANK.COM
Q. Currently I am in the market for a new computer. I bought my first back in 1993, a 486DX2 with the Windows 3.1 operating system. Where could I search...
RESETTING WORD ENDS WAITING GAME WHEN SAVING FILES
Q--I'm a writer, so I use Microsoft Word all day, and speed counts. I bought a new Dell 333 MHz Pentium II with a 10-gigabyte hard drive, which I assumed...
THE RIGHT DATABASE PROGRAM CAN STRIKE THE PERFECT CHORD
Q. I am currently using a DOS database program called PFS File. This, so far, has served me in my self-employed piano-tuning business. Is it possible to use a Windows...
SOMETIMES, A HANDY POWER DRILL CAN UNSCREW A PC PROBLEM
Q. My daughter is off to school at the University of Michigan. In trying to install the ethernet card she needs to get on-line at school I discovered that the...