Question: We have tried to download a scanner program from Acer Peripherals. It downloads fine, but then, there are all these icons and we do not know where to proceed from there. In the meantime, we have a scanner that is useless to us. Can you help? —G.F. Answer: Downloading is one of the great […]
Question: This is an MPEG I sent to our friend for his birthday and CCed my husband, but he can’t read it. He has a Dell laptop and Windows 98. Oh great genius, how does one associate a program with a file type in Windows 98? – D.S. Answer: The reader sent along a highly […]
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 […]