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Q&A: How can I hide from a stalker on Facebook?

Posted on March 30, 2021

Question from Leanne: I hope you can help me, Rick.

I have a serious problem and I don’t know how to fix it.

I have an ex that’s stalking me on Facebook. Every time I block him he just opens a new account and starts stalking me again.

I’m afraid to post anything or comment on anyone else’s posts because every time I do he leaves a sarcastic (and sometimes borderline threatening) comment in response.

I really love Facebook and I’d hate to give it up, but unless I can come up with a way to “hide” from this guy I’m probably going to have to delete my account.

Is there any way possible to prevent him from seeing the things I do on Facebook? Or at least prevent him from commenting on them?

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Q&A: How can I change where Windows 10 saves new documents?

Posted on March 28, 2021

Question from Paul L.: I recently discovered that the C: drive in my Windows 10 computer is full so I installed a second hard drive.

Everything works fine but when I create a new document Windows still tries to save it to the C: drive. And since that drive is full it can’t save it.

I have to manually choose the E: drive (the new hard drive) every time I try to save a new document.

How can I change it so Windows will automatically store the new files I create on the E: drive instead of the C: drive?

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Q&A: Is it safe to span two hard drives to make one large drive in a Windows PC?

Posted on March 28, 2021

Question from Carl: I read here that you can “span” (i.e. combine) multiple hard drives and use them as one large drive and access them all with a single drive letter.

I have a used, but working 500GB hard drive at home that I could install in my Windows 10 desktop computer to span with the 750GB drive that’s already in it to effectively give me a 1.25TB drive.

I happened to be in Best Buy the other day and I asked one of the Geek Squad techs if they could span the two hard drives into one for me.

His answer was they could but they didn’t recommend spanning drives because if one of the spanned drives failed you’d lose all the data stored on all the drives.

He said it’s a lot safer to simply install a 2TB drive and be done with it. And of course he conveniently had one available to sell me.

Was he telling the truth or was he just trying to sell me a new hard drive?

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Q&A: How can I retrieve my files from a broken laptop?

Posted on March 27, 2021

Question from Troy W.: I have a three year old laptop that has a broken screen.

It’s smashed pretty good and it won’t light up at all.

I checked and it would cost more to have the screen replaced than the laptop is really worth.

I plan to just junk it, but I have a lot of files on there that I’d really like to get off of it first.

Do you think I’ll be able to save my files, and if so, how do I do it?

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Q&A: Will not having a robots.txt file prevent Google from crawling my blog?

Posted on March 27, 2021

Question from Gary: In addition to your newsletter I also read the one that Kim Komando puts out.

In yesterday’s edition she discussed several things that can indicate that a website is outdated.

Then she said something that both puzzles and concerns me.

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