Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
With Facebook privacy so often in the news these days, you’re probably concerned about keeping your own posts, photos and comments at least somewhat private.
To that end, you’ve probably tweaked your account’s privacy settings to make your personal information as private or as accessible to others as you feel comfortable with.
But are you really sure you have everything truly locked down to match your comfort level?
Well, there’s an easy way to find out… [Read more…]
Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 have a nifty Autocorrect feature that really comes in handy for people who happen to be poor spellers and/or poor typists (like me for instance).
Lots of folks love Autocorrect and rely on it to help keep their documents as error-free as possible.
However, plenty of other folks find it extremely irritating because, well…it it often “corrects” misspelled words incorrectly.
If you happen to fall into the second group, you can easily disable the Autocorrect feature. [Read more…]
Question from Mark: I have a four month old Acer Gaming Laptop with a 32 inch monitor connected and set as the primary display.
I use the 32 inch screen for my games. The laptop’s built-in screen is always open with my email and a few other apps open on it.
What I need to know is could leaving the lid open all the time damage the laptop in any way? [Read more…]
Question from Kendra: Hi, Rick. I need to ask you a computer question.
I know this sounds silly, but it’s a serious question and I really need to know the answer.
Can a virus that’s on one drive jump onto another drive? [Read more…]
I recently wrote a post explaining how to make the mouse pointer larger in response to a reader who was having trouble tracking the pointer on her computer screen.
The solution I recommended was to simply go into Windows’ Mouse settings and turn on the “Magnified” feature.
That took care of the original question but it raised another related question in the minds of several other readers…