Long-time reader Chet Norris wrote to ask aout a couple problems he was having:
Hi Terry 2 questions for the price of one if I may. 1.When I try to copy ‘my pictures’ to a CD they come out as addresses or locations instead of pics. I don’t know if that’s normal [...]

Subscriber Ray Lenz wrote after my articles recently
Terry,
I enjoyed your Q & A with Alice. I’m 76 myself and slowing down a little with my computer savvy even though I have been working with computers since 1966. I was a programmer on an IBM 1401 with 8K [...]

Recently, subscriber Peter Killick had a question about protection from downloads:
I was under the impression that my combination of a router plus a software firewall completely prevented anything ever being downloaded on my computer over the web without my approval, typically indicated by clicking a button. My router is a Netgear, properly and carefully [...]

Every once in a while, I like to write about new sites (or, at least, new to me) that are designed for fun.
First, let’s take a look at some ASCII art. ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” In the 1960’s and 1970’s, before the days of dot-matrix printers and other printers capable [...]

Longtime subscriber Greg wrote to ask:
Terry, My desktop has started to have a couple really aggravating problems and I wanted to run them by you. 1) Every morning when I go to check my email before work, I find that all my desktop icons have disappeared and I am looking at the wallpaper only. [...]

Reader Teri Scott wrote me to ask about her slow dialup Internet connection:
Hello,
I have a desktop and a laptop and live in a remote area so the only internet I can get is dial-up. We recently moved and in our previous home, my desktop and laptop connected [...]

Subscriber James McClellan wrote to let me know he was finally successful with backing up…
Terry, I hadn’t been able to get my external back-up drive to work since buying a new dell. At your recommendation, I tried Karen’s Replicator ( www.karenware.com ) It worked great and I’m now doing daily backups to the external drive. [...]

One of the easiest ways to document web pages and other printable content is to “print” them into a PDF file. Adobe’s Acrobat program provides a printer driver to create such files from anything that you can print.
Of course, Acrobat is out of reach for many people, or at least, we don’t have any desire [...]

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 the [...]

If you don’t already have a home computer network and want to set up one, it’s easy. In fact, it’s so easy that I recommend that ANYONE using a high-speed Internet connection should use a router for the added security that it gives their computer.
A wired or wireless router (wireless routers normally have 4 wired [...]