When I receive an email with an attached .PPS (PowerPoint) file I am able to click the file to open through PowerPoint Viewer. However, if I try to open the same types of files in a forwarded email, or save the file to disk and then attempt to open, the following message appears: ‘This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel’. How can I open these files? (more…)

Following your advice in the SK Archive, I managed to backup my email mail store files from Outlook Express on my old desktop computer, and transfer the files to my new laptop. However, as I had already setup Outlook Express on the laptop some of the mail store files (e.g. Inbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, etc) already existed. When attempting to copy my backup versions of these files onto the laptop, a message appeared saying the file already exists, and I should choose another name. The mail store files for folders which did not exist on the laptop copied successfully, but they do not appear in Outlook Express. How can I copy all the mail store files across to the laptop, and make them appear in Outlook Express? Another question relates to transferring my personal data (e.g. Word, Excel files) between the two computers. I copied these files to CD, and then transferred the files to the laptop. However, all files now show the ‘date modified’ as when the files were copied to the laptop. How can I prevent this occurring? Finally, my desktop computer had the hard drive partitioned and I kept all my personal files on the ‘F’ drive. The people at the computer shop recommended this since it would be easier to backup the F drive should there be a problem with the computer necessitating a re-format. On the new laptop, all my documents are stored in the ‘My Documents’ folder on the system C drive. Would it be prudent to partition the drive and put all the ‘My Documents’ on another partition? (more…)

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 7, the latest version of the Internet Explorer web browser. This new version has some great features including tabbed browsing, increased support of web standards, new security features, and RSS support. You can download this new version of Internet Explorer from the Microsoft downloads site at: www.microsoft.com/downloads. (more…)

I have been unable to defragment the C drive on my computer. When attempting the defragmentation procedure, the error DEFRAG004 appears. This same error also occurs when running Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode. The computer is running Windows 98. (more…)

When saving files and folders to CD using the Windows XP CD Burning feature, the date created and date modified fields of the copies are changed to the date they were copied. How do I preserve the original dates? The computer is running Windows XP Home. (more…)