Tax Refund Scam
How to Avoid Spam
Using System Restore
Temporary Internet Files
Non-stop Music on your PC
Delete Normal.dot
CAPS to lower case
Remove Duplicate Files
Red X Instead of a Picture
Finding Lost Files
Labels & Envelopes
Make Your Own Icons
Spreadsheet In PowerPoint
Word Graphics to JPG
Watermark a Document
Add Music to Your Email
Gmail, Outlook Express
Rotate a Picture
CYMK vs RGB Colors
Adding Text to a Photo
Crop and Resize Photos
Blind Carbon Copies
Move DBX Files to a New PC
Copy Email Address Book
Pics Blocked by OE
MSWord Help
- Creating Labels & Envelopes with Word, Excel, & MSWorks
- Replacing NORMAL.DOC when MSWord Becomes Unstable
- Password Protecting Word & Excel Documents
Pictures & Text Boxes
- Picture in a Text Box
- Placing Both Text & a Pic in a Text Box
Other Document Types
- MSWord, Wordpad, Notepad, Google's Writely/Docs
- Converting Data between MSWord & PDF Files
- Show a Spreadsheet in PowerPoint (using Paint)
- Less Complicated Word Processing Programs
Working with Columns
- Dividing a Page into Columns
- Lining Up Numbers in a Column
Bullets & Page Numbering
- Using AutoCorrect for Bullets & Numbering
- Add Page Numbering to a Word Processing Document
Telling a Story with Your PC
- Writing a Personal Memoir
- Creating a Newsletter
- MSWord Paragraph Formatting
- Convert CAPS to lower case (& vice versa)
- Sending a Family/Holiday Newsletter
- Automatic Backup of MSWord Documents
- Free Trials of MSWord 2007 & of WordPerfect Office X3
- Various Computer Audio Formats, such as WMA, WAV, MIDI, etc.
- Finding Free Downloadable Music Online
- Recover Songs from your Temporary Internet Files
- Converting Music Formats (WAV to MID, etc.)
- Converting Vinyl LPs & Audio Tapes to Digital Music Formats
- More on Converting Musical Collections to Digital Music Formats
- Playing Songs Continuously in Windows Media Player 11
- Compatibility Issues with MSOffice 2007
- Make Your Own Icons
- Free MSOffice-Compatible Programs + Accessibility Options
- Using a Watermark in a Document or on an Image
- Working with Music Files & Windows Media Player
- Tips on Downloading Music from This Site
- Putting Music in Your Email + Dealing with Email Spam
- Some USB (Universal Serial Bus) Fundamentals
- Function Keys & Keyboard Shortcuts + Dealing with the Infamous "Insert" Key
- Backing Up Your Computer's Hard Drive & Moving Files to a New Computer
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Other Document Types
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Bullets & Page Numbering
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Free Programs & Free Program Scams
For several years we’ve been using and recommending a free anti-virus program named AVG. Well, the company discontinued its free Version 7.5, and we have been hearing conflicting reports about whether Version 8.0 is free or just a trial version that is free for 30 days. In any case, our experience with AVG 8.0 is that it's much bigger than 7.5 was (because of adding extra features such as anti-spy and anti-phishing tools) and that is very slow, taking several hours to scan each of our computers. Consequently, we decided to try some other free anti-virus programs that were recommended by various readers. After trying these programs, we settled on Avast (www.avast.com) which was recommended by Pat Williams. Pat told us she has used Avast for quite a while and she likes the way it works. We heartily agree. Another reader, Joan Kaye, recommended another free anti-virus program called Avira (www.avira.com). Is It the Program or Is It You? Here’s something to consider regarding anti-virus software. Is it the program that is keeping you safe from viruses, or is it your computer behavior? Well, your behavior is really the best protection against a virus – especially in view of the fact that no AV program can be 100% effective all the time. New viruses are created and sent out every day, but it can be two or three days before your anti-virus provider finds out about them and sends you an update. Scams regarding Free Programs Regarding free software, a current scam involves someone charging you for a fee program. Here’s how it works: A scammer creates a site that displays the name of a free program, such as, say, OpenOffice (the free MSOffice-compatible software suite). He then names the site something like, say, "www.your-openoffice.org". If you type "openoffice" or "open office" or "free office program" into Google, several sites will be listed that appear to be the actual OpenOffice site. However, only one will be legitimate – the others will try to charge you $30 to $50 to link you to the real site. Thus, if someone tries to charge you for Adobe Reader (PDF document reader) or Ad-Aware (anti-spyware program) or Irfanview (my favorite image-editing program) just go to my Home Page for the legitimate free links, along with links to many other useful free programs. Also, do NOT give your email address to such sites or you will be swamped with spam. And it goes without saying that you NEVER give out personal information, such as your social security number or a bank account number to anyone online. Nonetheless, we often give a credit card number to legitimate vendors, such as www.amazon.com. In fact, with gas prices what they are, buying merchandise online actually saves us money. Again, be on the lookout for scammer sites that pretend to be a legitimate site. Free Music Download Problems Bob Baker wrote to ask why the free music downloads on my site won’t play on his computer. He gets an error message that mentions Rhapsody songs. Well, Rhapsody is owned by RealPlayer, who has its own collection of music for sale and who try to discourage people from downloading free songs such as the "swing era" oldies on my site. Unless you have some very compelling reason for using Rhapsody and/or RealAudio, I recommend uninstalling the programs. Leaving them installed will give you all kinds of grief with the songs on other sites. However, the programs are not easy to uninstall and will often leave fragments in your Windows Registry. See Edit Registry for Registry solutions.
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