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Question from Carol N.: I installed MightyText on my computer and used it for a few days but then decided I didn’t want to keep it.
I uninstalled it last night but it’s still sending me notifications telling me I’m not signed in to MightyText and that I might miss some messages.
Why am I still getting those notifications even though it’s no longer on my computer? Could it be a cookie or something that’s stored in Chrome?
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Question from Ben K.: I need your help with a problem with my Acer desktop computer.
I upgraded it from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a while back and ever since then the machine has been rebooting at random times.
I’ve tried doing several System Restores and even Refreshed my current Windows installation, but neither of those tasks have fixed the problem.
Can you please tell me what I need to do stop my PC from randomly rebooting? I need to get this fixed ASAP or else I’ll have no choice but to take it into a shop for repairs. Thanks so much for your assistance!
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Question from Beth J.: I’ve been using the Opera Mini browser on my Android phone for a long time and I only started having this problem a few days ago.
Now every time one of my friends comments on a Facebook post of mine or sends me a message a notification from Facebook pops up on my phone. It even does it when I don’t have Facebook loaded!
I prefer to keep my Facebook activities discreet and I don’t want these notifications popping up. Can you tell me how to turn them off?
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Question from Janna: I’ve noticed that many of the status updates appearing in my Facebook newsfeed are now being printed in huge, ugly bold letters.
And unfortunately, my own status updates are being printed the same way.
Several of my friends have even messaged me and asked me why I’m shouting at them!
I hate this large text and I’m not doing anything (that I’m aware of) to make the text size bigger.
My question is why is this happening and how can I make my posts be displayed with the normal text size?
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Question from Randy F.: My hard drive started making a combination of loud whining and clicking sounds last night.
I did some research (thanks Google!) and found a forum post that said to run chkdsk to see if the drive has any bad sectors. It then said if bad sectors are found to run chkdsk/r to fix them.
I ran chkdsk and it did find a bunch of bad sectors. I started to run chkdsk /r to fix the bad sectors but then I remembered reading a follow-up post that said running chkdsk /r can kill a hard drive outright.
What’s your advice on this? I’d like to fix the drive and not have to replace it if that’s possible, but I don’t want to lose my pictures and other files by killing the drive. I need some advice on how to proceed.
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