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Posted 16 October 2001 We had a wide range of problems and issues
this week. The killer application for businesses on the Internet, e-mail,
turned 30. John Morrison and Paul discussed how
to keep yourself off mailing lists and what
an out of memory message might mean. A Flat Battery The battery in a PC can reasonably be expected
to last for three to five years. Robert’s computer is going through batteries
every few months. This indicates some sort of power or motherboard problem
that may be serious. It is important to get the computer looked at by a technician. Changing the screen resolution Unwanted Internet Favorites XTree Gold Our thanks to all the listeners and callers,
particularly to those who followed up with suggestions about Xtree and other
issues. We hope you can all tune in next month.
Robert had a battery keeps discharging in
his PC. The purpose of having a battery in your computer is to keep the settings,
date and time while the computer is off. Having a flat battery is a nuisance
because your computer will keep losing the date and time. On older computers
a flat battery can stop the computer from starting.
Nick was finding his Internet banking too
wide on the screen. The solution when you find any program won’t fit
on the screen is to reconfigure the resolution. Open the Control Panel (click
start, settings, control panel,) open the display settings and change
the screen size in the settings. If you find the screen is too small you can
always change it back.
Susie was finding that webpages were
being saved in her favorites that nobody in her family would admit to saving.
She asked if renegade websites could do this without anyone knowing. It is
possible, but certainly isn’t widespread, it may be worthwhile asking
some hard questions of family members.
Amanda was getting a "program not found" message when trying to open
a file. This means the file extension is not recognised by the computer. This
is a common problem with e-mailed attachments and is our problem
of the week for 17 October 2001.
Ian was looking for a replacement for Xtree
Gold. Xtree was a useful file management program back in the days of DOS and
the earlier versions of Windows. Xtree was discontinued some years back and
is not compatible with later versions of Windows. A number of callers rang
in to suggest ZTree, a free replacement
to the old Xtree.
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