When right-clicking on most icons a ‘Send To >’ item will appear in the context-menu. You can add your own items to the Send To menu. For example, you may wish to add a shortcut to the Recycle Bin in ‘Send To’. So whenever you right-click an icon and select ‘Send To > Recycle Bin’ that icon (which may be a shortcut, file or folder) will be put in the Recycle Bin. Shortcuts may be added to the ‘Send To’ list by opening the ‘Send To’ folder. Go to the ‘Start’ menu > ‘Run’ and type ’sendto’ (without the quotes) and click OK. If you are interested, the Send To folder is located at ‘C:WindowsSendTo’ in Windows 9xMe and at ‘C:Documents and SettingsSendTo’ in Windows XP. (more…)

Each time Internet Explorer is started, the default homepage changes. If I restore the homepage this does not stick the next time I open Internet Explorer. Additionally, when visiting some websites I am redirected to different pages. Spybot and Ad-Aware found and deleted suspicious files, but the problem persists. I downloaded and ran Spy Hunter which highlighted problems in the Windows registry as being ’severe’. The computer is running Windows XP Home Edition with 80 GB and 512 MB RAM. Can you help? (more…)

The first time you save or open a document in a Microsoft Word session, the ‘Save As’¦’ dialog and the ‘Open’ dialog boxes generally default to the current user’s ‘My Documents’ folder. This can be a hassle, especially if all your documents are kept in a different location (or sub-folder within ‘My Documents’). To change the default location for opening and saving Word documents, open Word and go to the ‘Tools’ menu > ‘Options’. In the window that appears, click the ‘File Locations’ tab. In the ‘File locations’ box select ‘Documents’ and click ‘Modify’¦’. (more…)

Out of the blue my Internet Explorer 6 browser has decided to be selective about which images to download. Some web pages display fine, while for others the images do not download at all, or it downloads a few images and not others. Some pages also seem to have odd text formatting, too. But there is no particular pattern that I can discern; seems quite random. I thought it may have been a problem with Norton Internet Security, so I uninstalled and reinstalled NIS and also disabled ad-blocking - but the images problem persists. The computer is running Internet Explorer 6. (more…)

Recently a new hard drive was installed into my computer. How can I install the old hard drive into the computer so that I can access this drive through Windows? What cables, jumper settings, and BIOS changes are needed? The computer is running Windows 98, but I am considering upgrading to Windows NT. (more…)