I know it’s happened to me, and it’s probably happened to you. No, I’m not talking about forgetting a website’s address or forgetting where your bookmark/favorite is. I’m talking about the site that had good information — but the site is not there any more. Sometimes, the site might be an online games site or [...]

Now that you have identified the programs that start automatically on your computer, how can you get them under control? You’ve identified the program names – which are ok or safe to prevent from starting? Which are bad and need to be removed? The basic tool to learn more about programs that are set to [...]

Now, how can I ignore those spam emails? How can I keep them out of my Inbox? You need a spam filter! We’ve all tried the old way – using a “block the sender” function. Basically, this is a specific filter (called a “rule” by some programs) that says “if an email comes from him, [...]

Windows has a number of ways to start programs automatically. Unfortunately, it includes only a few ways to identify and control the programs that start automatically. Windows will let you look at the Startup folder (Start / All Programs / Start). Unfortunately, very few programs put their startup commands in this folder because that makes [...]

Email reliability in this Internet-based world. It ought to be reliable, shouldn’t it? But, it is not. You can thank all the spammers for much of today’s unreliability, as email spam filters at the Internet Service Providers and on our on machines manage to misclassify emails — both false negatives (where they let spam through [...]

I’ve been busily adding new pages and articles and revising more at my Terry’s Computer Tips website. Some of these are new web pages from my older newsletters. I’ve discovered that Google’s search engine doesn’t do a good job on newsletters – there is too much unrelated content on an individual web page. Google apparently [...]