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Do you have a stack of old cassette tapes that you never listen to anymore because you have moved on to the digital world?
If so, there’s a very easy way to convert all of those great nostalgic songs to MP3s so you can listen to them on your smart phone, MP3 player, PC or Mac.
What’s more, it’ll only cost about what you’d pay for a good pizza.
Microsoft Outlook is one of the best email clients. It requires appropriate mail servers to access the email account.
When Outlook is configured with an Exchange server profile, Offline Folder File (OST) is created on the local system, containing all the mailbox items.
Sometimes, Outlook fails to connect to the Exchange Server mailbox and displays the error, “Couldn’t reach the email server.” Due to this, you’re not able to receive or send new emails. Below, we will discuss the causes of this error and the possible solutions to fix it. [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…]
If you’re a Windows user you’re probably familiar with Cortana, the personal assistant that Microsoft added to Windows beginning with the initial 2015 release of Windows 10.
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of Cortana and removing it has always been one of the first things I did any time I got a new PC or reinstalled Windows for some reason. [Read more…]