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Q&A: Why does my monitor take so long to display a picture?

Posted on February 22, 2022

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Question from Janie: I have an Asus VW266 27″ LCD monitor that I’ve had for several years. I’d really like to keep it because my late father gave it to me before he passed away, but I’ve started having problems with it.

About a month ago it started taking a minute or two for anything to be displayed on the screen after I turned it on.

The screen would just stay black for a couple of minutes, then display the picture.

These past few days it’s taking longer still for the picture to show. The screen stayed black for about 20 minutes this morning. [Read more…]

Q&A: Do I need to back up my SSD like I did my hard drive?

Posted on February 18, 2022

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Question from Kyle: The hard drive in my computer died and I replaced it with an SSD per your suggestion.

I’ve read that SSD’s are a lot more reliable than hard drives and that they rarely go bad.

My question is do I need to back up my SSD like I did my hard drive? [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I quickly find a specific word or phrase on a long web page?

Posted on February 18, 2022

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Question from Doreen: Hi, Rick. I moonlight doing product research for a local company, and I often find myself having to scan looooong web pages for a certain word or phrase related to the task at hand.

Some of these pages are literally thousands of words in length, and the font size is often very small which makes it even harder to find what I’m looking for.

Is there any way that I can just search for the word or phrase and have Firefox take me right to it? [Read more…]

Q&A: Do UV Phone Sanitizers really kill Covid-19 viruses?

Posted on February 16, 2022

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Question from Sophia: I’ve been seeing ads for UV phone sanitizers that supposedly will kill any Covid-19 viruses that might be on a phone.

My question is do they really work?

I’ve checked around and these things are fairly expensive.

I’d hate to buy one if it won’t really protect me from the virus. Better safe than sorry, right? [Read more…]

How can I make Edge copy just the URL instead of the page title?

Posted on February 16, 2022

Question from Dale: I’ve noticed that when I copy a URL from Edge’s address bar and then paste it into a document, it actually pastes the title of the page into the document and then links the title to the URL.

There are times when this is fine, but there are also times when I want to paste just the bare URL without the title.

How can I make Edge copy just the URL from the address bar without copying the title too? [Read more…]