Tech Questions & Answers Archives

Q&A: Must Windows programs always be installed on the C: drive?

Posted on June 8, 2023

Question from Carita: I’ve decided to take your advice about replacing the hard drive in my computer with an SSD.

I’ll be installing a 240GB SSD as the primary drive and leaving the 1TB hard drive installed in the computer as a secondary drive for extra storage.

The problem is I’m pretty sure the SSD will be too small to hold all the programs I currently use.

Will I be able to install some of them onto the hard drive even though the operating system (Windows 11) will be on the SSD? [Read more…]

Q&A: Why does my browser’s Bookmarks bar keep disappearing?

Posted on June 6, 2023

Question from Renée: I hope you can help me with a problem I’m having.

Sometimes when I’m on the Internet the Bookmarks bar will just disappear and I have to go into the browser settings to put it back.

Have you ever heard of this? [Read more…]

Q&A: Can you ‘Undo’ a System Restore on a Windows PC?

Posted on June 6, 2023

Question from Edward: Hello, Rick. Love your site! I hope you can answer a question for me.

I downloaded a game onto my Dell laptop 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 read in a Windows forum that a System Restore should fix the problem but that there are no guarantees.

My question is can a System Restore be reversed if it doesn’t fix the problem?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Q&A: Can you recommend a good, but cheap external hard drive enclosure?

Posted on June 5, 2023

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Question from Elizabeth: 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 other laptop that has Windows 10 and USB 3.0 ports. [Read more…]

Q&A: Would using two network adapters double my Internet speed?

Posted on June 3, 2023

Question from Bill: I have Internet through Verizon (20Mbps DSL) and it seems to be getting slower every day.

I just bought a new desktop computer that has both a wired Ethernet port and a wireless WiFi card in it. That got me to thinking.

Is there any way to use both of those network adapters at once to double the effective Internet speed coming from my router? [Read more…]