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Using the selection box that appears on the screen, navigate to the main folder you use for programs, then type in the name of a folder for the program you are installing. After the program is installed, go back to the folder where the original installation file is stored and move it to a temporary folder.

Use a common temporary folder for all downloads. You should save downloads for a week or two -- or for a lot longer if you have enough disk space -- so you'll be able to reinstall programs that get messed up. The file compression I am referring to works a little like a suitcase. Instead of carting an armful of socks and shirts and all your other clothes when you travel, you squeeze them into your suitcase and carry it.

To someone who just arrived from Mars, you'd seem to be carrying just one thing. You can do the same thing with files, packaging them into a single container file for the trip from one computer to another. Paul Katz developed the most common method of making container files, or archives, on PCs.

He called it ZIP. Now you know where the name comes from. You may not be able to see the period and the "ZIP" extension under Windows 95 because of the way it usually hides filename extensions. Nancy and I have three grown children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandson. I keep fit by a lot of bike riding. I own a Burley recumbent bike and a cruiser with inch wheels. East-Tec: Your technology-focused articles, reviews, commentaries have been both online and in print for 31 years!

What's the secret of that amazing dedication? What's your main source of inspiration, as a writer? Al Fasoldt: There's no secret to writing a lot. You simply sit down and write. But there IS a requirement if you are an expert on something your readers care about: You say exactly what you mean, without trying to placate anyone. This is what readers respect, and, after a few years, what they always expect.

My inspiration comes from my passion for explaining things. I think the world is a better place when we can understand why things happen the way they do. I'm also inspired by another passion. I think children are precious resources. If we respect their curiosity and never talk down to them, never try to make them feel unimportant, we've done something that goes beyond education. Many times, I've been asked in private what careers young people should pursue.

But I'm reminded of an incident long ago. Sometimes you have no idea what will come of casual conversations. A teenager called me at the office. She didn't give me her name. She said she was trying to choose a college curriculum. She wanted to go into computers, but her parents wanted her to follow her father's career into medicine. They had argued about this for weeks, and finally her dad suggested that she call me.

I told her there were a lot of college students who want to be computer techs and programmers, but not many who were willing to go through all the effort to become doctors and nurses and medical professionals of all kinds. But I also told her to do what SHE wanted to do.

It was her life after all. I was sure when I hung up that I had not changed her mind at all. More than a decade later, a group of visitors came through the office. I had to go to a meeting and didn't get a chance to say hello to any of them. When I got back, there was a note on my desk. I just wanted to thank you for your advice.

The visitor had written the note on the back of a business card. On the other side was the name of a doctor. I recognized the name immediately. She was one of the city's most respected young physicians. Please, tell us about both. Al Fasoldt: At one time I wrote three different weekly columns in the newspaper, all running on Sunday. At the start, the columns ran both in the newspaper and on my own bulletin board system BBS.

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