Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Question from Ellen: I enjoy taking pictures and sharing them on Instagram and Facebook, and I’ve been doing that as a hobby for several years now.
Ten months ago I started a photo blog using WordPress to try to make some money from all the photos I’ve taken over the years.
The problem is I’m not getting much traffic from Google at all to my photos.
Is there something I can do to get the photos on my blog to show up in relevant Google image searches?
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Question from Edward G: Hello Rick. Love your site! I hope you can answer a question for me.
I have a Dell laptop with Windows 10. I downloaded a game a few days ago and I immediately started getting lots of pop-up ads on my screen.
I uninstalled the game but I’m still getting the pop-ups. I’m thinking a System Restore will fix the problem but I’m not sure.
My question is can a System Restore be reversed if it doesn’t fix the problem?
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Question from Erica: I have a question about the cooling fan in my Dell laptop.
When I’m using the laptop I rarely hear the fan at all.
However, when my son is playing his games the fan speeds up for several seconds and then slows back down at random times.
It sounds really awful when it speeds up like that.
My question is do I need to have the fan replaced?
I can’t afford to replace the entire computer so I’d like to have the fan in this one replaced if it’s bad before it has a chance to cause additional problems.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
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Question from Elizabeth W.: I just finished reading your post about converting an internal hard drive into an external drive. I never dreamed that it would be so easy!
I have a 1GB hard drive that came out of my Dell Inspiron 15 5000 laptop when it died on me. The guy at the shop tested the drive and said it’s working fine.
I’d like to put that drive into an external enclosure and connect it to my new laptop that has Windows 10 and USB 3.0 ports.
When I clicked the link you posted to Amazon it listed a bunch of external USB enclosures and I have no clue which one I should buy. Can you recommend a good one that doesn’t cost a lot?
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Question from Devon: I have an HP gaming desktop computer with Windows 10 on it.
I recently started getting a “Your computer is low on memory” warning that pops up on a regular basis.
I always do a fresh restart on the PC when it pops up but the warning comes back after a couple of hours.
This machine has 16GB of RAM in it and I don’t run that many programs at a time so I shouldn’t be getting this warning.
I only get this error if I’m running my Firefox browser, even if there are no other programs running.
How can I find out how much RAM Windows is actually using? Also, do you think I might have a bad RAM stick?
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and all of the extensions three times and the problem is still here. I’m at my wits end.
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