Just a recap, the only truly safe way to back up family photos is to burn them on a CD or DVD. This is assuming you do not scratch or break the discs! Hard Drives and Flash Drives can and do fail.

OK lets start with those of you super techies that want to have 2 monitors on one PC. This is a good option for you workaholics that want to have one program open all the time on one monitor, and use the other monitor for opening and closing less utilized programs.
This is also good for editing videos. First you need to have a good video card with at least 256 video RAM and at least 1 gig system RAM. This video card needs to have 2 video plugs on the back of the card. Usually one digital, and one VGA. You may need an adapter for your video cables. Now you hook up your two monitors and reboot your computer, or turn it on. Now with both monitors displaying a picture, you right click on the desktop, and left click on settings. Click on monitor two, and click the box that says “extend the desktop onto this monitor” and you’re ready.

Now, how about if your built in sound card goes bad.
You can open up the case and install a new PCI card, or you can get the new USB sound cards. Just plug it in,
connect your speakers, and install drivers if needed.

How many of you have sent e-mail attachments of
Word or Excel and the recipient couldn’t open them?
This could be due to you having Office 2007, and sending the attachments in that format, and they have Office 2002 or 2003, which will not recognize the newer format. This is an easy fix. You can either use the “save as” feature to save each file in the older format, or you can set Office 2007 to save all documents in the older format
automatically.
This comes from one of Microsoft’s
Knowledge Base Articles. This involves a few steps, so here you are:
1.To change default file save options in Office Excel
2007:
a.Double-click Microsoft Office Excel 2007,double-click
Excel Options, and click Save.
b.In the right pane, right-click Save Excel files as, and
select Properties.
c.In Save files in this format, select Enabled.
d.In the drop-down box, select a default file save format.
e.Click Apply to save the settings.
2.To change default file save options in Office PowerPoint
2007:
a.Double-click Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007,
double-click PowerPoint Options, and click Save.
b.In the right pane, right-click Save files in this format,
and select Properties.
c.In Save files in this format, select Enabled.
d.In the drop-down box, select a default file save format.
e.Click Apply to save the settings.
3.To change default file save options in Office Word
2007:
a.Double-click Microsoft Office Word 2007, doubleclick
Word Options, and click Save.
b.In the right pane, right-click Save files in this format,
and select Properties.
c.In Save files in this format, select Enabled.
d.In the drop-down box, select a default file save format.
e.Click Apply to save the settings.

Ok, that is all for now, have fun and happy computing…
Computer Doctor
Michael Bilyeu
Computer_doctor@myctsonline.com

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