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Question from Randy: I have a two year old Mac desktop computer that runs great, but I heard Macs run a LOT faster if they have at least 16GB of RAM installed.
I’d love to upgrade mine to 16GB if it currently has less than that in it.
The thing is I have no idea how much RAM is in it right now. How can I find out? [Read more…]
Question from Beverly: I just bought a new PC with Windows 11 and the time in the lower right corner is in military time.
How do I reset it to normal time (i.e. instead of 17:00, have it say 5:00 PM)?
I’ve tried everything but don’t know how to do it.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
In this post I’m going to explain what Linux is, and more importantly, what it can do for you as the owner of an older PC that’s running a version of Windows that has been abandoned by Microsoft.
As you probably know by now, Microsoft is no longer releasing security updates for many versions of Windows, which means computers that are still running them are wide open to hackers and malware.
But an awesome free operating system called Linux can make using that unsafe computer safe again.
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A while back I wrote this blog post explaining how to use Chrome’s native Task Manager to find out which Chrome processes could be causing the browser to operate slower than it should.
That post received a lot of engagement, and several readers contacted me to ask if there is a native Task Manager built in to other browsers as well.
I answered those folks directly, but since I keep getting this same question I thought it might be a good idea to write a similar post to answer it on the blog. [Read more…]
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Back in the “stone age” (i.e. before we humans had the Internet) learning a new skill was time-consuming and often simply not worth our while.
With time being our most valuable asset, we often found it faster (and therefore “cheaper”) to simply hire someone who already possessed a certain skill to do that essential, yet one-time job for us instead of taking the time to learn how to do it ourselves.
But then along came the Internet, and before we knew it we had countless volumes of information at our fingertips. [Read more…]