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Question from Ari G.: I recently bought my first computer with Windows 10 and overall I really like it, especially the Edge browser.
I do have a question about using Edge though, and I’m hoping you can answer it for me.
How do you view a page’s source code in Edge?
In all the other browsers I’ve used you just right-click on the page and click “View Source”. But Edge apparently doesn’t have that option.
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Question from Brad: I recently replaced Windows Vista on my old Dell desktop computer with Linux Mint based on your recommendation in this post.
I’m happy with the upgrade (and it really is an upgrade), but I need your help with something.
On my Windows systems I have the DNS server settings all pointing to Open DNS because it seems to work so much better.
I’d like to change the DNS settings on this machine too but I’m afraid I might mess something up if I just go in there changing things without knowing what I’m doing.
Can you give me step-by-step instructions for changing the DNS server to Open DNS in Linux Mint?
Thanks in advance for your help. PS. Love your blog!!!
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Question from Dan J.: Hi Rick. I recently made the switch from Blogger to my own self-hosted WordPress blog with the help of your step-by-step guide to installing WordPress. I can honestly say it’s the best move I’ve ever made.
I need your help with one issue though. I have a habit of changing my mind about the images I use with my posts, sometimes more than once. The unused images always pop up in the Media Library when I go back to choose an image for a post.
How can I remove the images that I don’t ever plan to use from the media library?
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Question from Darren S.: I have several old DOS-based games that I bought at a yard sale and I’d love to be able to play some of them on my Windows 7 laptop. Will they run on that computer? If not, is it possible to install DOS in a dual-boot configuration and run them that way?
Rick’s Answer: Darren, it is possible to run some DOS games under Windows 7 (as well as XP, Vista and Windows 8), but due to major differences in the way DOS and Windows handle memory and I/O you’ll need to run them within a DOS emulator.
There are several DOS emulators for Windows available, but I would recommend trying one called DOSBox first. DOSBox has been around for a long time and they seem to have a lot of the kinks in the emulation process worked out. [Read more…]
Question from Vivian: My Internet went off last night and just to have something to do I opened the Klondike game in the Microsoft Solitaire Collection app.
The game loaded fine but a message popped up saying I could only play the game in Random mode since there was no Internet connection.
The Internet was back on when I woke up this morning so I tried to take the game off of Random so I could play it the way I usually do. But I can’t find a setting to change it.
Can you tell me how to get my Klondike game back off of Random mode?
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