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 [...]

This week’s online and email Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletters were released today. Contents include the following: IN THIS WEEK’S E-MAIL ISSUE: 0.JUST FOR SUBSCRIBERS — EMAIL ONLY 0.1Welcome to New Subscribers 0.2More Gmail Accounts Available 0.3An On-line Computer User Group 0.4Do you have an Internet-based business? 0.5My Recommendations for Computer Security Software 0.6Recommend Terry’s Computer [...]

Volume 1, Number 30 — Sunday, January 8, 2006 Terry’s Computer Tips newsletter IN THIS WEEK’S EMAIL ISSUE:    0.   JUST FOR SUBSCRIBERS — EMAIL ONLY    0.1   Welcome to New Subscribers    0.2   Gmail for Free Web and POP3 Email    0.3   My Recommendations for Computer Security Software    0.4   Recommend Terry’s Computer Tips to Your Friends IN THE ON-LINE EDITION    1.   Why is svchost.exe [...]

I published my latest weekly email newsletter and online newsletter on Sunday, January 1st. Here are the Tables of Contents: Volume 1, Number 30 — Sunday, January 8, 2006 IN THIS EMAIL ISSUE:    0.   JUST FOR SUBSCRIBERS — EMAIL ONLY    0.1   Welcome to New Subscribers    0.2   Passwording and Un-Passwording Your Windows XP Computer    0.3   My Recommendations for Computer Security [...]