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What’s this “View Source” gibberish?

Q: Page 158 in Windows Vista for Dummies shows Internet Explorer’s Page button. When I press the Page button and choose View Source from the menu, an enormous amount of gibberish appears. Why can’t I delete that? A: When you open Internet Explorer, click the Page button, and choose View Source from the drop-down menu, […]

Internet Explorer won’t let me send pages or links by e-mail!

Q: On Internet Explorer 8’s Page menu, the “Send Page by E-mail” and “Send Link by E-mail” options are both “grayed out,” and I can’t choose them. I normally log onto a Web site to send and receive my e-mail. A: Windows 7 lacks an e-mail program, which causes more than a few problems. Microsoft […]

I can’t send a Web page through Windows Live Mail!

Q: I can’t send a web page through Windows Live Mail. On Internet Explorer 8’s Page menu, the “Send Page by E-mail” and “Send Link by E-mail” options are both “grayed out,” and I can’t choose them. Help! A: Windows 7 lacks an e-mail program, an inconvenience Microsoft tries to remedy by letting people download […]

My Guest account can’t dial up the Internet!

People with Administrator or Limited accounts usually have no problem connecting to the Internet through a dial-up modem. But when Guest account users sit down at that same computer and try to connect to the Internet, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 refuses to let them. What gives? It’s a security measure built-in to Windows, […]