Question: Please advise whether there is a simple and economical method for receiving fax messages on a fax modem which shares a single line with voice messages. Although I rely primarily on e-mail, I occasionally want to receive a fax message; this is too infrequent to justify a dedicated telephone line. I tried setting my […]
Question: I receive Adobe Acrobat files all the time. The extension on the files is .PDF. What does PDF mean and how is it different from .TXT or .DOC? – JT Answer: PDF stands for “Portable Document Format”. It’s a file format invented in 1995 by Adobe Systems, king of the software graphics tools. The […]
In Windows 98, to create a new toolbar: Right-click the taskbar. Point to Toolbars. Click New Toolbar. Type the path to the folder or the address of the Internet site that you want to appear as a toolbar, or select it from the list. To move a toolbar to the desktop, drag it into the […]
Question: A lot of people at work are into ICQ. Could you explain what it is and what it’s used for? Is it secure to send company information over it? – S.V.Z. Answer: ICQ is a program that, once installed on an Internet-connected computer, acts as a communications device that, in the electronic world, is […]
Question: I have an AOL Messenger icon in my System Tray during startup. I am not interested in having that capability and I am at a loss on how to find the program that is associated with placing that icon in the tray. Could you please help me erase the program from my system? – […]
