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It’s clear that for the most part Windows 11 is simply Windows 10 with a fresh new coat of paint.
While I actually like a few of the minor changes Microsoft has made with the new Windows 11 interface, there is one that I really dislike: the centered Taskbar and Start button.
Question from Alex: I’m a singer/musician who has a large semi-local following in my city and the surrounding areas.
I created a Facebook page and tried to use it to let my fans know about my upcoming gigs, but I recently found out that Facebook only shows my posts to a just a small percentage of my 8,000+ followers.
I’ve found that I do a lot better when I post the dates on my personal Facebook Timeline.
The problem is Facebook won’t allow me to have more than 5,000 friends and I have new people wanting to friend me all the time.
Can you tell me how to bypass the 5,000 friend limit on a personal account? [Read more…]
If you’ve been using computers for a while you’ve probably experienced the loss of irreplaceable data at some point in the past.
After all, hard drives go belly-up, flash drives become corrupted and unreadable, viruses render computers unbootable and all manner of other disasters strike when we are least expecting them.
That’s why it’s so important to always have a high-quality data recovery tool at your disposal.
I recently had the opportunity to test and evaluate Stellar Data Recovery Professional, one of the most popular and highly-rated data recovery solutions that’s available today. [Read more…]
There’s an old scam that keeps popping up from time to time, and I’m hearing lots of reports that it’s spreading like wildfire at the moment.
A while back I wrote a post explaining that neither Microsoft nor Apple will call you to let you know that your machine has a virus.
And they won’t, so if you get a call like that from out of the blue you should know right off the bat that the call is a scam. Just hang up on them.
But now there’s a quickly spreading variation of that scam that’s costing a lot of folks a lot of money and causing tons of grief to boot.
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Do you ever find yourself wishing your computer wasn’t running like a snoozing slug?
Have you noticed that it now runs a lot slower than it did when you first bought it?
As you probably know, computers tend to slow down over time due to clutter on the hard drive and other software-related issues.
This is simply a fact of life, especially with Windows-based machines. [Read more…]