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Archive for the Tag ‘windows’

December 3, 2011

What are the keys labelled F1 through F12 on my keyboard?

Every computer I’ve had has these F keys at the top of the keyboard. What are these and what are they used for?

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October 20, 2011

How do I find my old Wifi password?

A while ago, I connected my old laptop to the Wifi router at my community centre. I would like to do the same with my new laptop, but I cannot find the Wifi password.

Is it stored on my old laptop somewhere and, if so, can I recover it?

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August 10, 2011

I don’t seem to be able to print pages in IE9. What’s wrong?

I seem to have a problem printing in IE9. It’s strange because I can print exactly the same pages from Firefox and IE8. When I try to print from IE9, the browser displays the error message: ‘script error -line 2053-unknown fault-res://ieframe.dll/preview.js’. What’s going on?

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April 9, 2011

How do I change the icon for a program?

I have a program on my Desktop and I’d like to change the icon for it. How do I do this?

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April 6, 2011

How can I make my computer look really cool?

My Mum’s birthday is coming up soon. How can I make her computer look really cool?

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March 31, 2011

How do I run CHKDSK in Windows?

I’d like to tell a friend to run CHKDSK, but I think that asking him to drop to DOS etc might be a bit too complicated. Is there a Windows equivalent?

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January 19, 2011

How do I unlock the taskbar?

In the past I have been able to resize my Window Taskbar. Now I cannot seem to grab the top edge in order to make it smaller. It’s huge at the moment and rather annoying. Any idea why this is the case?

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January 19, 2011

How do I turn off “My Recent Documents”?

How do I prevent items being added to the My Recent Documents folder in the Start menu or disable it entirely? I use Windows XP.

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