Articles in Category: 2011
Leo’s Answers #315 – December 27, 2011
Living without installation media, loaning your computer to the wrong
person, 2012 doomsday predictions and more.
Leo’s Answers #314 – December 20, 2011
When Explorer (the other one) crashes, dead machines with important files, an Ask Leo! announcement and more.
Leo’s Answers #313 – December 13, 2011
Avoiding nasty trojans, erasing hard disks (completely) and more.
Leo’s Answers #312 – December 6, 2011
Embarrassing auto-complete, another Google toolbar, and an announcement
about the newsletter.
Leo’s Answers #311 – November 29, 2011
Backups, backups, a new recommendation and more backups!
Leo’s Answers #310 – November 22, 2011
Sharing files in Win7, Blaming add-ons in IE, Software Rot, and more…
Leo’s Answers #309 – November 15, 2011
What’s slowing down your machine, giving your password to strangers, Removing IE, and more..
Leo’s Answers #308 – November 8, 2011
Backing Up Infected Drives, Wireless & Router safety, Broken IE9, Custom
Icons and more..
Leo’s Answers #307 – November 1, 2011
What’s this SATA, PATA and IDE stuff? Links in PDFs, Dropbox, Spam on a NEW!
Domain and more..
Leo’s Answers #306 – October 25, 2011
RAW vs. JPG, recovering from a BAD infection, a peek at Evernote, protecting your
address book and more…
Leo’s Answers #305 – October 18, 2011
Installing an ISO, SendTo and Hotmail, removing a Win 7 partition, Backup
Q&A, and more.
Leo’s Answers #304 – October 11, 2011
Bad email etiquette, accidentally moving files, slow disk defraggers,
Outlook’s PST, Macrium Reflect and more.
Leo’s Answers #303 – October 4, 2011
Super cookies, repairing PSTs, Windows 7’s backup, and fixing viruses when you can’t even boot.
Leo’s Answers #302 – September 27, 2011
Facebook charging? Windows Live, recovering encrypted data, passwords & more…
Leo’s Answers #301 – September 20, 2011
Preventing copying & printing, accidentally deleting your hard drive, closing Hotmail, Windows 8 & more…
Leo’s Answers #300 – September 13, 2011
Free internet, backing up encrypted data, why Microsoft (probably) won’t fix your bug & more…
Leo’s Answers #299 – September 6, 2011
Adobe Air, sharing your Internet, sniffing encrypted email, natural disasters & more
Leo’s Answers #298 – August 30, 2011
Windows Installer issues, email bounces, TrueCrypt video, legal mp3 files and more…
Leo’s Answers #297 – August 23, 2011
desktop.ini & desktop.ini, mobile broadband security, foistware, ZIP
encryption & DNS.
Leo’s Answers #296 – August 16, 2011
Sniffing’s easy, connecting while traveling, wireless without encryption, clicks in search results, and a back-to-school sale.
Leo’s Answers #295 – August 9, 2011
IP address ownership, tracking illegal sites, router passwords, more
passwords, and Ask Leo!’s 8th anniversary!
Leo’s Answers #295 – August 2, 2011
Keeping malware at bay, discovering search history, good passwords,
Hotmail’s reputation and more…
Leo’s Answers #293 – July 26, 2011
Smartphone safety, details in Explorer, recovering data after a crash, keep
on buying those new computers, and more …
Leo’s Answers #292 – July 19, 2011
Email bounces & bots, banking on a dedicated machine, .BAK files, virtual machines and more …
Leo’s Answers #291 – July 12, 2011
64-bit Flash, installing MSE video, WinPatrol, getting statements by email,
getting Windows XP, and more …
Leo’s Answers #290 – July 5, 2011
Calls from Microsoft, contextual advertising, encrypting a hard drive, slack
space & a new family member.
Leo’s Answers #289 – June 28, 2011
Slack space, determining file types without using file extensions, VC redistributables, sending a .exe, “Crazy Facts” & more.
Leo’s Answers #288 – June 21, 2011
MS System Sweeper, security in the cloud, pasting into Word, aborting a
download and a Win 7 toolbar tip.
Leo’s Answers #287 – June 14, 2011
This week: 8 character passwords, ignoring Windows Update, Spyware, IE9 (or not), keyboard rrrrepeat.
Leo’s Answers #286 – June 7, 2011
This week Firewalls, UAC in Windows 7, Backing up Webmail, +1, and the first monthly webinar.
Leo’s Answers #285 – May 31, 2011
This week: top level folders, disappearing menus, staying safe from viruses and a new PDF recommendation.
Leo’s Answers #284 – May 24, 2011
This week: Print to File, No Signal, CHKDSK, Uninstalling IE9, & my new book!
Leo’s Answers #283 – May 17, 2011
This week: Accounts in Outlook 2010, Windows Passwords & Fonts & Reverting to XP – plus my rant(?) to website owners.
