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Rick’s Daily Pick: Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch Screen / Fingerprint Deadbolt

Posted on June 8, 2025

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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch Screen / Fingerprint Deadbolt.

Always forgetting (or even worse, losing) your house key?

This little gem will let you unlock your door by either entering a secure numeric code or simply touching its fingerprint reader.

You can even lock or unlock the door remotely with your phone via the included app.

Click here to check out the Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch Screen / Fingerprint Deadbolt at Amazon.

Picture of the Day: “Waterfall on Honshu”

Posted on June 8, 2025

Today’s POTD features a small, but very picturesque waterfall on the Japanese island of Honshu. I hope you like it.

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Monthly Tech Giveaway – June 2025

Posted on May 31, 2025

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June’s winner will receive this fantastic Lenovo IdeaPad 1 15IAU7 15.6″ Laptop.

This machine is quite inexpensive, but it’s perfect for anyone who needs a dependable laptop for Internet use.

All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.

Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).

Not a subscriber? Just enter your email address in the form on this page. Once subscribed you’ll be eligible to win each month’s drawing – starting with this month. Better yet, opt for a Premium subscription for double the chance to win!

The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on June 30 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.

Good luck!

Q&A: How do you hide a folder in Windows 11?

Posted on June 8, 2025

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Question from Pauley: I have a folder on my Windows 11 computer with files in it that I don’t want to accidentally delete.

Is there some way to hide that folder so I can’t accidently click on it and delete it?

Rick’s answer: It’s actually very easy to hide a folder on a Windows 11 PC, Pauley. All it takes is a few mouse clicks. [Read more…]

How to ‘Unsend’ a Gmail message if you change your mind if after clicking “Send”

Posted on June 7, 2025

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Have you ever clicked the “Send” button after composing an email and immediately realized that you had sent the message to the wrong person?

Or perhaps you have sent an angry response to an email, only to regret it just as soon as you clicked “Send”?

Things like this happen to most of us at times, and it’s never a good feeling when they do.

Luckily, Gmail has a nifty feature called “Undo Send” that gives you up to 30 seconds to change your mind after clicking the “Send” button. [Read more…]

Q&A: What’s the easiest way to clone a hard drive to an SSD?

Posted on June 6, 2025

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Question from Samuel: Hi, Rick. I bought a 1TB solid state drive (SSD) to replace the aging 1GB drive in my laptop.

I read your post about using Clonezilla to clone the contents of the old drive onto the new one, but I know from one of your other posts that I’ll need to buy a SATA to USB adapter too. [Read more…]