Smart fixes for your PC hassles
Last week I told you about the impending demise of iGoogle -- and suggested three iGoogle alternatives. The response was great, with many readers sharing my dismay over Google's decision and others offering their own recommendations for replacements.
With that in mind, I thought I'd share two more home-page options worth considering. One comes pretty close to replicating the iGoogle experience, while the other takes a totally different tack.
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For as long as I can remember, iGoogle has been my home page. I've used it for everything from monitoring my favorite blogs and news sites to tracking the number of days since I last added salt to my water softener.
So it came as something of a shock to read that iGoogle is going away on November 1, 2013. That's only 16 months from now, barely enough time to vet a replacement.
I kid, I kid -- that's more than enough time. The question is, where should you hang your home-page hat? What should be the first thing that appears when you open your browser? I've got three suggestions:
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Judging by the number of comments and recommendations that post received, readers shared my outrage.
I'm happy to report that Microsoft has apparently shifted gears, giving the people what they want (kind of) and dialing back the greed.
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Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders.
Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot, which is invaluable in troubleshooting problems like this:
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A couple days ago, I noticed that one of the accounts hadn't received any new mail for about 24 hours. That seemed very strange, as the flow of messages to that address had always been strong and steady.
I figured it was probably a temporary glitch at Google's end (there was a Gmail outage just a couple months ago), so I waited another day to see if it would clear up on its own.
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One of the reasons there's so much animosity toward Facebook is that the service frequently makes changes without notifying users -- and not always for the better.
For example, you know that email address that appears on your profile, the one you make visible to your Facebook friends and/or potential friends? You may discover, as I just did, that Facebook has hidden that address, replacing it with the @facebook.com email address you were assigned when the network rolled out its mail service.
Why would Zuckerberg and Co. make such a change? I guess in an effort to make Facebook's email services more visible, more relevant. Whatever the case, I'm thinking thanks, but no thanks.
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Without actually knowing the size and contents of your drive, I can only make a guess -- but I'm pretty confident it's the right one.
Your D: drive is not actually another hard drive, nor is it the letter assigned to a memory-card slot. Instead, it's most likely a partition of your primary hard drive, a separate area created especially to hold certain files or data.
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