Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
You’ve probably heard by now that Microsoft is going to stop supplying updates of any kind for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that includes the all-important security updates.
How this change will affect you will depend on the type of PC that you own right now, your personally acceptable level of risk and how you typically use your computer. [Read more…]
Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Question from Elena: I read your post that explains how to reopen a tab in your web browser when you’re using a computer. What a great tip!
Can I do the same thing on my iPhone and iPad when I accidentally close a tab in Safari?
If you’re like me, there are probably a few major annoyances with Windows that sometimes make you scratch your head and wonder why it does the things it does.
One of the most annoying of those annoyances is Microsoft’s clunky ‘Windows Update’ procedure for Windows. [Read more…]
Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Note: The link in this post is an affiliate link.
Question from Maggie: My computer is in our bedroom and my mouse makes a loud clicking sound that drives my husband up the wall when he’s trying to sleep.
I tried the instructions from several articles I found online about silencing the mouse in the Control Panel, but nothing works.
I believe it’s the mouse itself that’s generating the clicking sound. Do you know of any way to make it stop making that irritating clicking noise? [Read more…]
Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Note: This post contains affiliate links.
Hard drives and SSDs are dirt cheap these days when compared to the prices from times past, and SSDs that are large enough to actually be usable are now quite affordable.
That’s why so many people are choosing to simply replace the hard drives in their computers instead of buying an entire new PC.
If you’ve taken the plunge and replaced the hard drive in your computer with a larger and/or faster drive, you might be wondering what you can do with your old drive. [Read more…]