Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Question from Kevin A.: Hi Rick. First of all, I really love your blog. What a wonderful service you’re providing to those of us who struggle with technology!
I have a WordPress blog of my own and the sidebar widgets sort of run together because they all have a white background.
How can I give my own sidebar widgets a light gray background color like the widgets on your blog?
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Question from Kenny P.: I’ve noticed recently that my favorite website keeps automatically showing videos from something called AdChoices, and I find them really annoying!
Is AdChoices a virus? If it is, how do I get rid of it?
I’ve scanned my system with AVG and Malwarebytes but they didn’t find anything.
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Question from (name withheld by request): I hope you can help me Rick. Someone is sending me threatening emails, and it has me worried.
I’m pretty sure it’s my ex-boyfriend because he mentions things in the emails that only he should know about. The thing is, I don’t recognize the email address.
Is there any way to trace the IP address from the email headers and find out where the emails are being sent from?
I know where this guy lives now so it should be pretty easy to prove that it’s him if I can prove where the emails were sent from. He has threatened to “put me in the hospital” and I’m very scared that he might do it.
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Question from Connie: I love to cook and I’m always seeing recipes that I want to try on Facebook.
The problem I have is when I go to print them it wants to print all the other posts too.
What’s the best way to print just one recipe and nothing else?
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Question from Bruce: Rick, I had to buy new a computer and there’s data on the old PC’s hard drive that I need to keep.
Can I turn that old drive into an external hard drive to retrieve the data, or is it more complicated than that? The drive came out of an old XP machine. The rest of the old machine is toast.
I’m asking because I saw your post explaining how to connect the hard drive from a laptop to another computer via a USB port.
I’m hoping I can do the same thing with this old drive because it has some files on it that I really need to get some important files off of it.
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