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Question from Maurine: I bought a 2TB external USB hard drive to store my large collection of old family pictures on.
When I plugged the new drive into my computer I noticed that it has several files on it already.
One is a file with info about the warranty. Another is a user guide. I’m not sure what the other two files are.
My question is can I delete all these files or do I need to keep them?
Question from May: I love your site, Rick. I read it every day and find your info to be so helpful!
I hope you can help me solve a problem I’m having with my Chrome browser (it’s the only browser I use).
When I do Google searches I seem to get a lot of results from Tumblr, and many of the ones I click on are really nasty pages that I’d rather not see.
I try real hard to avoid clicking on any Tumblr links when I search for things but sometimes I mess up and click one by accident.
Is there any way to completely block ALL pages from Tumblr without also blocking any other websites?
Question from Ellen: I’ve been following your blog for a while now, Rick.
It seems like you write about a new Facebook scam or hoax at least once a week or so.
I always forward your ‘scam alerts’ to my sister to make sure she sees them, but the other night she asked me to stop. She said there can’t really be that many scams on Facebook because they keep them cleaned up.
I got to thinking about it and it does seem like there are an awful lot of them. Are you sure they’re all real? [Read more…]
Question from Ronnie: I have a question about Safari on my iPhone.
I have an account with an online service (I’d rather not say what it is) that I’ve been accessing for over a year with my iPhone.
I just bought a new laptop and I want to start accessing that website on it instead of my iPhone.
The problem is I can’t remember the password because Safari has been automatically filling it in for me.
Is there any way I can view that stored password in Safari so I can use it to log into the account on my laptop? [Read more…]
Question from Lauren: I have an older Dell desktop PC with Windows 10 on it (upgraded from Windows 7).
It has always worked well, but I’ve recently started having a bit of trouble with it.
Sometimes when I’m typing something the Start menu will pop up all on it’s own just like I clicked on the Start button or pressed the Windows key (neither of which is the case when this happens). [Read more…]