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DADDY BOB'S COMPUTER Q & A

 

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July 2006

Date Posted: July 30, 2006

Q. Every time I turn the computer on a box comes across my screen and it says. The application or DLL C:\Program files\clearsearch\CSLDRupdater.DLL is not a valid windows image. I don't know what they mean and I have done nothing new to the computer and this started appearing about a week ago. HELP!

Q. In order to download my printer update driver, I had to allow the program access through my OneCare firewall.  Now it's checking to automatically update every time I start the computer and I do not want that! How do I find the place to again block it in my firewall?

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Date Posted: July 23, 2006

Q. In last week's column you suggest zipping a file to attach it to an email to get around some email programs filtering. So what is a zip file, and how do I make one?

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Date Posted: July 16, 2006

Q. Sometime someone sends me a picture and it's so big that you have to scroll over and down in order to see the picture. Is this a problem with the sender or receiver? What can be done to make the whole picture show on the screen?

Q. I am trying to email some files to a friend that I wrote but my email program keeps blocking it. It says that it is blocked because it may have unsafe materials in it which is bologna. How can I override that?

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Date Posted: July 9, 2006

Q. When I sign on, at the welcome screen it says that I have email messages, but when I check, there aren't any. Why is it telling me that I have email when I don't?

Q. I recently bought a new laptop computer, but when I tried to use my PC Card, it doesn't fit. Tech service told me that it is an Express card slot, and the PC card won't work. Why?

Q. On just about all computer, peripherals and other electrical devices there are the two letters CE printed. What's that all  about?

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Date Posted: July 2, 2006

Q. Why does my computer displays a file that is 3.97 KB in size as 4,066 Bytes when 3.97 times 1000 equals 3,970? Doesn't the K in KB stand for Kilo which is 1000?

Q. OK, now that I have mentioned this about binary notation using only a 0 and 1, how does the computer handle the numbers in between the 2, 4, 8, 16, etc?

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