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I’ve recently started getting spam email and they seem to be coming from my email address. My virus scanner tells me my computer is clean, so is this something I should worry about?

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When I move my mouse to quit my screensaver my computer’s login screen appears and I have to enter my password to use the computer. Is there any way to turn this off?

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I’m trying to connect my laptop to my Wifi network which currently has a number of computers already connected. I’ve supplied the WEP key it requires but all I get on this laptop is “Acquiring networking address” and it never actually connects. Is my laptop’s WiFi broken?

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After changing some options to do with my desktop theme I have lost the My Computer and Control Panel icons from the Desktop. How can I get them back?

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I have quite a few music and video files on my computer and don’t have any problems with them usually. However, sometimes I want to delete on of them and this doesn’t always work. I select the file and press Delete but after confirming that I want to delete it, I get a message saying that the file is in use and cannot be deleted. I’m pretty sure it’s not in use. What’s causing the problem?

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It seems like everybody is pumping money into trying to drag people to their websites by advertising on Adwords, spraying banners all over the Internet or trying to get as many people to sign up to their mailing list as possible. What should I be doing to differentiate myself from the masses?

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I’m looking at a blog but I’m not seeing a subscribe button on the page. I’m pretty sure they have an RSS feed. How do I go about subscribing to it?

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I get tons of junk mail in my spam folder. Is there anything I can do to reduce the amount of spam around?

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