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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Thursday, February 24, 2022.
• How to get the Word Count back onto MS Word’s status bar
• How (and why) to add a Legacy Contact to your Apple ID
• Why you need a SATA/IDE to USB adapter
• Video: The North Carolina bridge that insurance companies love to hate
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Virtually every computer technician on the planet keeps one very special piece of equipment on hand, and you should too.
It’s called a SATA/IDE to USB adapter, and it’s quite simply the handiest tool on any computer tech’s test bench. [Read more…]
Question from Dale: I’ve noticed that when I copy a URL from Edge’s address bar and then paste it into a document, it actually pastes the title of the page into the document and then links the title to the URL.
There are times when this is fine, but there are also times when I want to paste just the bare URL without the title.
How can I make Edge copy just the URL from the address bar without copying the title too? [Read more…]
If you use an Android device you might have noticed that there’s a mysterious folder named LOST.DIR on your SD card.
If you look inside this folder you’ll see that it contains a bunch of weird numbered files.
Many people end up deleting this folder, thinking it might be a virus, but truth be told, it isn’t.
Question from Denise: I recently started a new job and the IT folks said I can connect my personal laptop to their network but only if it has something called Secure Boot enabled?
Can you tell me what that is and how to check to see if its enabled?