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I've been away from computers for several years and have gotten very rusty. I'm trying to remember about setting up hard drives and dvd drives. When you have 2 hard drives and one dvd drive, what's the best setup as far as primary and secondary? One hard drive would be the boot drive (C:)...

I'm trying to help a friend of a friend whose laptop won't boot to Windows. It has Vista Home Basic as the OS which I've never used. My question is.. does Vista have any different features that would save the users jpgs or mp3s to some place other than the C drive? (The drive is not...

We just got a new Lexmark E460dn. All's fine except that is has a loud, 5 second beep every time a print job finishes. This printer will be used mostly for very frequent 1 to 3 page print jobs, not large docs, so a beep after every print would be very frequent and very annoying. I called tech...

A friend has a problem with his computer shutting off at random times. In beginning to troubleshoot it I found the Device Manager is totally blank.... even in Safe Mode. Has anyone here had this happen before? Thanks in advance for any advice Boze

I'm wanting to buy a new laptop. So far have looked at Dell, HP and now IBM. I can get a system I'd like for almost HALF the cost if I go with Lenovo (Thinkpad T61). Seems too good to be true. Anyone have any advice about Lenovo in general? I can post the specs of the system if that would...

I'm trying to learn CSS. One thing I thought I'd do is format the color, font, font size and alignment for some of the headings. It worked fine but there's more space below the them than I'd like. Is there a way to have less space after a heading? Or is there something other than headings...

A friend who is a People PC member says her email prints as HTML code. Apparently it's always done so. She normally uses their web mail but tried Outlook Express and got the same result. Any ideas about what might cause this? Thanks in advance Bozette

In troubleshooting a computer for a friend it looks as though I need to clear the CMOS cache. If it's disabled XP boots correctly.. sloooow but it gets there. If I ENable Level 1 and/or Level 2 cache in the BIOS it will only boot to Safe Mode. My question.. if I clear the CMOS cache (never...

My boss has an IBM laptop (fairly new) that has been able to plug into our network (SBS2003 and XP Pro workstations) with his ethernet card and access the internet. Yesterday he tried this and was unable to access web pages. I found I AM able to access a page using the IP address, just not the...

Beginning yesterday, when my boss launches any program ALL desktop icons disappear. The Start Button, Quick Lauch, toolbar and clock area ARE visible. We can get the icons back using the Show Desktop shortcut in Quick Launch area. In fact Show Desktop will toggle between all desktop icons...

It's been ages since I've had to troubleshoot a modem, and never in XP. Is there a place in Modem Diagnostics that indicates that the phoneline is good? The Problem: We upgraded our pcs so all use DSL for connectivity. ONE has a modem since I need to dial-in for one service every 2 weeks. To...

I want to put a Powerpoint Slideshow on a web page so a user can download it or launch it. Not having any luck. I created a link to the file. When I right-click the link and try 'Save Target As' it first says "Getting information.. filename.pps" but then quickly changes to the Save...

I'm able to copy the info from a Form to a new record using RecordsetClone and AddNew but can't figure out how to copy the info from the related SUBform. I think part of the problem is because the subform is a contiuous form so I'm missing something there. I'd be glad to post my code and the...

I have an Order Form based on 3 tables (frmOrders). Users use it to input orders. To look at previous orders for reference, rather than using 'Next' or 'Previous' I have a button that opens a form based on a parameter query. It's named frmJobNum and a user can type in a job number and to see...

I'm trying to help someone who's using Outlook 98, Internet Mail Only. When he clicks on a recurring appointment in the calendar he gets a message "the item cannot be opened, there is not enough memory or system resources, close a few windows and try again." He gets this message even...

In Word 97, on one computer only, we see gibberish in documents such as ++BB++, along with font info, author name for that doc, etc. The same file, viewed by another pc with Word97 shows correctly. On the problem computer the Print Preview shows the doc correctly, not the extra gibberish. Any...

After a system crash I am unable to print. Had previously printed via USB to the local printer. Now USB not showing as an available port when adding the printer (does show in Device Manager). Switched to a parallel cable, added the printer (HP880C). After the software rebooted the pc to...