I bought a new PC with Windows 98 and other popular software installed. I did not buy a new monitor, already having an Acerview 33D SVGA. Included in the software was a thing called PowerStrip, which seems to be a video driver. However, when I shut down my PC the screen, which is supposed to say 'please wait while . . . etc', goes completely out of control. It comes back eventually with the 'now it is safe . . .' message after a long shut-down time. Could PowerStrip be causing this glitch? Should I ignore, delete it or find some way to reset it? ANDY LAURENCE Shau Kei Wan Do not simply delete PowerStrip. It is designed to compliment the native Windows Display Properties sheet under Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT. It combines multi-monitor API support with programmable hardware support. A simple toolbar and menu that pops up from the system tray provides configuration and fast access to your favourite display settings and a choice of some 1,000 monitors. Your Acerview should be there and you should be able to tweak PowerStrip so your monitor problems disappear.
If you are unsure about altering the settings of PowerStrip, leave well enough alone. Overall, your system works well enough.
A quick follow-up to my discussion on December 22 of e-mail forwarding. Reader Peter Baker did not gain much from my suggestions about redirecting e-mail because he uses InternetMail News version 4. 70.115, which does not have a redirect facility and would take him more than seven hours to download the upgrade to version 4.0.
Luckily, reader Paul Baran noticed I had not said anything about using good old-fashioned Telnet and Unix commands to forward mail. Regardless of where you access the Internet, you can always Telnet to your home mail server and use Pine to read your e-mail - provided you have not already read and removed mail from the server. You can also edit the '.forward' file from your Telnet Unix prompt to forward mail to other addresses. To do so, type 'pico .forward' at the Unix prompt and add the e-mail address to which you want to forward mail to the very beginning of the file. Type 'Control-X' to exit and save the file when prompted. Mail sent to your address will be forwarded to the address in the '.forward' file, but will not be saved on your server.
Meanwhile, a letter from Paula Levy of Interpath Communication referred to the IMAP4 messaging protocol.
