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Online archives of the Ask Leo! newsletters published in 2012.
Ask Leo! #316 - What were people asking last year? Plus routers, recovery, broken URLs and more.
What were people asking last year? Plus routers, recovery, broken URLs and more.
Why I dislike System Restore. Also: backing up e-readers, anonymous surfing and more...
Ask Leo! #318 - The 32-to-64 bit upgrade path, clipboards, a great cleaning tool, and more...
The 32-to-64 bit upgrade path, clipboards, a great cleaning tool, and more...
Is the internet really that dangerous? Taskbar previews, Hotmail passwords (again), and more...
A Windows Explorer change you must make, DLLs versus EXEs, Sandboxes versus VMs, and more...
Slow pictures, big pictures, big slow pictures, combining internet connections and more...
Watching what your network is up to, making photos smaller on disk, SSIDs and more...
Downloading Windows 7, perhaps even legally! Broken keyboards, image formats and more...
Which version of IE you should run, live CDs, routers vs. routers vs. access points, and more...
Getting Windows 7 machines to 'see' each other, repairing Microsoft Office, is this a scam? and more...
Secrets of your sysadmin, turning off IE9's "speed up" suggestion, deleting Hotmail contacts and more...
Getting 'remembered' passwords out of your computer, backing up Yahoo!, download accelerators and more...
Keep running that old copy of Windows, deleting email, using Facebook safely and more...
How long ISPs track you, joining a dating service, selecting the right playback device and more...
TV over the internet? Being labeled a spammer, finding your IP address via IM and more...
Bypassing UAC, deleting cookies on schedule, getting files back from an upload site and more...
Ask Leo! #332 - Does Google know all? Viewing hidden files, locating product keys and more...
Does Google know all? Viewing hidden files, locating product keys and more...
Letting a technician through your firewall, fixing Windows 7's boot, image backups and more...
Turning off MSE, the difference between deleting and DELETING, Google Alerts and more...
Accidentally exposing your on-line status, unexpected downloads, wiping free space and more...
More on initial system images, free Kindle reading applications, overwriting files and more...
Ask Leo! #337 - Removing a recovery partition, speeding up FireFox, connection speeds and more...
Removing a recovery partition, speeding up FireFox, connection speeds and more...
Preparing for a subpoena, backing up Outlook, external drive boot problems and more...
Ask Leo! #339 - Sleeping hard disks, Using RSS and an all new .... Answercast?
Ask Leo! #339 - Sleeping hard disks, Using RSS and an all new .... Answercast?
Cleaning up after malware, searching effectively, booting Ubuntu and much more in Answercast #2...
Ask Leo! #341 - More answers than we know what to do with ...
More answers than we know what to do with ...
USB Ports that die, a Flash update perhaps with baggage, and another packed Answercast...
Ask Leo! #343 - Https Security, Burning a CD, nine more answers in Answercast 6 and more...
Https Security, Burning a CD, nine more answers in Answercast 6 and more...
Libraries and Kindles, how spammers hide IP addresses, does your email have a virus and more...
Lights are on but nobody home, small photos, backup terminology, a fully packed Answercast and more...
Why hackers hack, why files get locked, what happens to email sent to the wrong address and more...
Purchasing and setting up your own domain, blocking unwanted email, using recovery discs, Answercast #10 and more...
Ask Leo! #348 - Losing the internet in July, fixing what isn't broken, links to your Dropbox and more...
Drivers that install over and over, monitoring changes to the registry, noobs and more...
Decompressing Windows compression, paying for free software, IP addresses, paging files and more...
Removing personal information from a machine, where user accounts come from and more...
Ask Leo! #353 - Full headers in Gmail, IE8 & 9, destroying a hard disk and more...
Full headers in Gmail, IE8 & 9, destroying a hard disk and more...
Computers that start themselves, what happens when you say SPAM, Meebo, Truecrypt and more...