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Question from Nina P.: Hi Rick. First, I want to thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures with us every morning.
They really start my day off on a positive note!
Now, a question. When I go through your page and click on the older pictures it always shows the last one you posted.
Why is that? I love seeing the old photos too!
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Question from Beverly: My 7 year old laptop stopped working last year and I replaced it with a new one that has Windows 10 on it.
When I was setting up the new laptop it asked me to create a password for logging into Windows.
Then it also asked me to create a PIN.
I’ve been logging in with the PIN ever since but I recently read an article that said passwords are more secure than PINs.
I’ve been logging in with my password since then but the log-in screen still gives the option to use the PIN when I click the “Sign-in Options” link.
If I can choose to enter the PIN instead of the password a computer thief would be able to as well, right?
My questions is, how do I completely remove the PIN from my laptop?
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Question from Wilma A.: Great site you have there, Rick. I visit every day!
I have a question about Facebook and I know you’ll be able to answer it for me.
I have a lot of friends and a bunch of them poke me on a regular basis. I’m talking maybe 30-40 pokes a day.
I don’t have time to respond to all the pokes as they come in so I usually wait a few days and poke everyone back at once.
Where do I look for the list of people who have poked me?
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Question from Lawrence: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question for me about hard drives.
A while back I bought a Seagate STHN2000400 2TB external hard drive to use to transfer files back and forth between the personal Mac I keep at home and another Mac that I use at work.
This arrangement was working great until my home Mac bit the dust and I had to replace it.
The problem I’m having is the MacBook Pro I bought a few days ago won’t work with the Seagate drive. There’s no connector on the laptop that will accept the plug on the drive.
If at all possible I’d like to keep using this drive with the new MacBook Pro because it contains thousands of files that I use both at home and at work.
Is there some kind of adapter I can buy to make this particular Seagate drive work with my new laptop? [Read more…]
Question from Melvin: I have a “health and wellness” blog that I’ve been writing for over four years now. It runs on WordPress.
I write several new posts each week and the blog now has over a thousand posts on it.
About a month ago I paid a guy to make some updates to the blog to make it more attractive and add a couple of new features that I’d seen on other blogs.
With my permission he ended up changing the blog to a new theme (Divi). Now I have a big problem that I hope you can help me with.