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Question from Marcie: My friend sent me some pictures and I was looking at them on my Windows laptop.
After I closed everything out I saw that one of the pictures I looked at was covering the entire desktop.
I don’t like it because it makes it hard to see the desktop icons. And besides, it’s not the type of picture I want on my screen at all times anyway.
Why is that photo covering my entire desktop? [Read more…]
Question from Carol: Rick, I’m really in a bind and I’m hoping you can help me.
My son was messing around in the settings in Firefox and he deleted my browser history, including the cookies that kept me logged into my most important accounts.
As you can probably guess, now I can’t log in to my bank account or pretty much anything else because I’ve forgotten the passwords.
Do you know if there’s a way to “unclear” the browser history in Firefox?
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Question from Mariana: I just got my first smartphone and I love how I can use it as a camera!
I love taking pictures with my phone but when I go to look at them I sometimes need to rotate it to see a particular picture right-side up.
The problem is when I rotate my phone the pictures rotate too so I’m always looking at them from the same (wrong) angle. The orientation of the picture doesn’t change and I can never look at it the right way without getting a crick in my neck.
How can I prevent a picture from rotating when I rotate my phone?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Question from Paul: I went to an estate sale and bought a used MacBook.
How can I determine the exact model number? I’m eager to find out exactly what I bought. LOL [Read more…]
Question from Luella: My sister bought a new laptop a while back and after using it for a couple of days she decided she hates Windows 11.
She was going to return it and buy a Mac but I told her I would just buy the laptop from her since I had been planning to buy one anyway.
The thing is this laptop shows up on our company network under my sister’s name and I don’t know how to fix it. I know our IT guy could do it but he’s out on vacation and won’t be back until the end of the month.
Would you mind telling me how to change the name on this laptop from my sister’s name to my name? [Read more…]