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Question from Lynda: When I tag a person and the post comes up on their timeline, only our mutual friends can see it.
I’ve checked my and their settings and it’s set so our friends can see what we are tagged in.
What am I doing wrong?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to reset a smart phone back to the factory default settings, and I have received a lot of positive feedback on that post.
Since then I’ve had several people ask me how to do the same for an iPad, so I thought I’d put the instructions for resetting an iPad back to its factory defaults in a post of its own. I hope it will help some folks.
It’s actually quite easy to reset your iPad. Here’s how: [Read more…]
By now you are probably quite familiar with the onscreen keyboard that pops up whenever you access a text box on your mobile device.
What most people don’t know however is recent versions of Microsoft Windows come with onscreen keyboards as well.
You might be wondering why you would ever want to use an onscreen keyboard when your PC already has a full-size physical keyboard.
Well, there are several situations in which an onscreen keyboard can come in handy. Here are a couple that arise fairly often : [Read more…]
Question from Leta W.: I have an external USB hard drive that I use to back up all of my important files. I keep this drive plugged into the back of my PC, and it’s hidden from view.
My question is can I hide that drive from showing up in File Explorer?
My daughter uses this computer too, and I want to make sure she doesn’t wipe out any of my saved files on the external drive. This computer is running Windows 10.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you have Windows 10 on your computer, you might have noticed that the Start Button and Start Menu are back after taking a short hiatus with Windows 8.
One important thing that’s missing on the Windows 10 Start Menu however is a menu option for opening a “Run” box.
Well, there’s actually a way to open a “Run” box from the Start menu but it’s buried two levels deep in the “Windows System” section, and that makes opening a simple Run box more time-consuming than it should be.
Of course you can always quickly open a Run box by pressing the Windows+R key combination (that’s the way I always do it), but some folks prefer having it right on the Start Menu.
If you’re one of them, you can easily add a “Run” tile to the Start Menu on your Windows 10 PC. Here’s how: [Read more…]