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My “Pick” for the day is this awesome ComfiLife Adjustable Memory Foam Foot Rest.
Rest your tired feet and keep them off the cold, hard floor with this extremely ergonomic foot rest.
Click here to read more about these ComfiLife Adjustable Memory Foam Foot Rest at Amazon.
Question from Roger: Rick, I followed your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with a solid state drive (SSD).
I’m absolutely blown away by how much faster the laptop boots up and how much faster my programs load.
I do have one question though. I read in another forum that SSDs don’t get fragmented and they never need to be defragged. Is that true?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Question from Robert: About a year ago I built a new gaming PC and installed Windows 11 on it.
A few days ago I installed this Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD thinking it would be a LOT faster than the hard drive.
Well, it isn’t. It actually takes forever for some games to load. [Read more…]
Today’s “Picture of the Day” features a plane flying over a small lake in rural Quebec with the evening sun setting both sky and water “ablaze”. I hope you like it.
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Does your Internet service occasionally go out due to storms or equipment failure?
If so, you know how irritating it can be when you have to wait for a tech to come out and restore your service.
But guess what? In a pinch, you can use your smartphone’s cellular data connection to access the Internet with your computer. [Read more…]