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.

Leo’s Answers #282 – May 10, 2011

Leo’s Answers #281 – May 3, 2011

Leo’s Answers #280 – April 26, 2011

Leo’s Answers #279 – April 19, 2011

Leo’s Answers #278 – April 12, 2011

Leo’s Answers #277 – April 5, 2011

Leo’s Answers #276 – March 29, 2011

Leo’s Answers #275 – March 22, 2011

Leo’s Answers #274 – March 15, 2011

Leo’s Answers #273 – March 8, 2011

Leo’s Answers #272 – March 1, 2011

Leo’s Answers #271 – February 22, 2011

Leo’s Answers #270 – February 15, 2011

Leo’s Answers #269 – February 8, 2011

Leo’s Answers #268 – February 1, 2011

Leo’s Answers #267 – January 25, 2011

Leo’s Answers #266 – January 18, 2011

Leo’s Answers #265 – January 11, 2011

Leo’s Answers #264 – January 4, 2011