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Question from Yvette S.: Hi, Rick. I have a question about my three year old MacBook Pro.
My son usually helps me but he’s out of town at the moment.
It needs a new battery, but I can’t find the model number so I don’t know which battery I need to buy.
Can you tell me where to look for the model number? [Read more…]
Question from Polly: I bought a Chromebook a few months ago after my Windows laptop died, but now I’ve started having trouble with the Chromebook.
Starting last night everything I type is in all capital letters.
I checked to see if the Caps Lock key might be on, but I can’t find one.
Will you please answer these two questions? [Read more…]
Question from Carita: I’ve decided to take your advice about replacing the hard drive in my computer with an SSD.
I’ll be installing a 240GB SSD as the primary drive and leaving the 1TB hard drive installed in the computer as a secondary drive for extra storage.
The problem is I’m pretty sure the SSD will be too small to hold all the programs I currently use.
Will I be able to install some of them onto the hard drive even though the operating system (Windows 11) will be on the SSD? [Read more…]
Question from Renée: I hope you can help me with a problem I’m having.
Sometimes when I’m on the Internet the Bookmarks bar will just disappear and I have to go into the browser settings to put it back.
Have you ever heard of this? [Read more…]
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Question from Elizabeth: I just finished reading your post about converting an internal hard drive into an external drive. I never dreamed that it would be so easy!
I have a 1GB hard drive that came out of my Dell Inspiron 15 5000 laptop when it died on me. The guy at the shop tested the drive and said it’s working fine.
I’d like to put that drive into an external enclosure and connect it to my other laptop that has Windows 10 and USB 3.0 ports. [Read more…]