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Microsoft is set to abandon Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7 in January

Posted on December 20, 2019

Microsoft will be ending support for Windows 7 in January 2020, and that move will leave Windows 7 users with a very important choice to make.

If you have a Windows 7 PC one of the choices you’ll have available to you is to take your chances and keep using Windows 7 even after Microsoft stops releasing critical security updates for it.

I don’t really recommend that due to the reasons stated in the post I linked to above, but if you decide to forge ahead with Windows 7 anyway you can reduce the significant security risk a bit by using a really good antivirus and anti-malware product.

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Don’t forget the ‘extras’ while doing your Christmas shopping this year

Posted on December 13, 2019

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Not all that long ago it was common for folks to begin their Christmas shopping on the day after Thanksgiving – aka “Black Friday”.

And of course many people still do.

But in recent years the major retailers have successfully expanded Black Friday to the point where it’s now really “Black November”.

That means the Christmas shopping season is now in full swing!

As you rush around trying to pick up all of the Christmas gifts on your list, don’t forget about the essential extras that you’ll probably want to buy to go along with the gadgets that are on the list.

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Heads-up: If you use Cortana on your iOS or Android device, it’ll no longer work after January!

Posted on December 2, 2019

When Microsoft first released Windows 10 it included an integrated digital assistant called Cortana.

They desperately wanted Cortana to become a strong competitor to Apple’s Siri, and to that end they quickly released a Cortana mobile app for iOS and Android devices.

Well, as they say, things didn’t quite go as planned because Cortana never really took off in the non-Windows world.

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Rick’s File Recovery Service: I’ll recover the photos and files from your dead computer for you.

Posted on December 1, 2019

I’m often asked if I’d be willing to recover the photos and other files from a “dead” laptop or desktop computer.

I typically refer them to this post that explains how to retrieve their files themselves, but some folks prefer to pay me to do the job for them because they don’t want to take a chance on accidentally trashing their files.

I provide this service because I know how important precious photos and other irreplaceable files can be to their owners.

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