Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Barbara: I bought a new computer with Windows 11 on it and after using it for a while I’ve decided that I despise the Photos app.
Can you recommend a good replacement for it?
Free would be great but I don’t mind paying if I have to in order to get a good one. [Read more…]
Question from Jimmy: A few years ago I paid a computer tech to build a gaming PC for me.
This machine has a Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3-CF motherboard and 8GB of Patriot Viper DDR4-3000 RAM in it.
That means the RAM should be operating at 3000 MHz, right?
After reading your post about Speccy I decided to install it and run it just to see all the specs of my system at a glance.
Speccy is reporting the DRAM speed to be 1496 MHz instead of 3000.
Is my RAM actually operating at that speed or is Speccy just reporting it wrong? [Read more…]
Question from Tim: I have three semesters worth of very important notes stored on a USB flash drive.
My friend wants to borrow that drive so he can use the notes to study for a certification exam.
I can’t afford to lose those files for any reason because they cannot be re-created or replaced.
Is there some way to prevent my friend from accidentally deleting the files from the drive? [Read more…]
Question from Iris: A while back I signed up for Amazon Music Unlimited and I used it every day for a while.
One of my wo-workers turned me onto Spotify and now I prefer using that instead.
Can you tell me how to cancel my Amazon Music Unlimited subscription?
I just don’t see the point in subscribing to two music services. [Read more…]
Question from Rita: My granddaughter is in the Air Force and the last time she was in she opened a Snapchat account on my phone so I can chat with her while she’s overseas.
The name she gave me on there is “Grandma”.
That’s fine, but I’ve recently started talking to other people on Snapchat and I’d like to use my real name instead of Grandma.
Can you tell me how to change it? [Read more…]