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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.

The main purpose of a “registry cleaner” is to delete keys or to repair broken pieces of registry information associated with software that you may have uninstalled. If your computer was messed up by trojan software or malware, a registry cleaner could be a useful tool in removing the keys associated with the malware. [...]

If you are like me and have not upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007, you’ll notice that documents created with the new 2007 program don’t open correctly in Word. In the good old days, Word documents stored with a “.doc” extension. The new 2007 Word documents store with a “.docx” extension that does not [...]

If you have been sent a document that cannot be converted to text (see yesterday’s post), there’s an excellent conversion program called QuickView Plus. This amazing software can open virtually any document or email attachment without your having to purchase additional software programs.
Over 300 different file types are supported by QuickView Plus, including Mirocosoft [...]

A big problem with sharing electronic files is that the software programs are not always compatible. This article is written from the perspective of –

You own both Word and WordPerfect (or other incompatible word processing programs) and need to convert a document; or
You are sending a draft to someone who has a software program [...]

Hard drives fill up fast these days. Digital photos, movies, mp3 audios and all the other fun downloads take up a lot of space.
The Practical Solutions
Obviously, the first thing you may want to consider to free up space on you computer is to delete files that you never use. If you don’t want [...]

Every once in awhile, you might stumble across a blog (maybe like this one) that you’d like to follow. You might bookmark the page, but life gets busy and you forget to visit your bookmarks.
For people relatively new to blogging platforms, most blogs have something that’s called an RSS feed. RSS [...]

When you want to share a document with others, who may all have different word processing programs that may not be compatible with your software, converting the document to Adobe’s PDF format is the way to go! PDF files can be universally read with Adobe’s free Adobe Acrobat Reader program that most people already [...]

You might have a website and have heard that posting videos on YouTube, Google Videos and other free video hosting services is a powerful way to generate a ton of traffic. But here’s your problem: You don’t have a video recorder and you don’t have a clue how to make a video.
If you [...]

It’s a nightmare that happens to every home or small business computer user once in awhile. All of the sudden, email doesn’t work right. Maybe software programs such as Microsoft Word refuse to work. Sometimes your programs won’t even load. Or perhaps your Internet browser is all messed up. The [...]

Organizing your electronic files from the beginning can save a lot of time later. A lot of home computer users that I have worked with have a rough time finding templates, web pages, word processing documents or other materials on their computers. A simple thing to do is to use the “search” function [...]