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Question from Darryl: Several years ago I paid a friend of mine to build me a desktop computer.
This machine has an Intel CPU and 8GB of RAM. There is no video card because it’s using the integrated video on the motherboard.
This machine has worked perfectly for years but now it’s started overheating and shutting down on me. The CPU temperature reached 170 degrees before it shut down last time.
What could be causing this? [Read more…]
Question from Ray: I know that Microsoft Defender disables itself if it detects a second antivirus is running but that it’s supposed to automatically turn back on if you remove the other antivirus program.
Well I recently uninstalled McAfee expecting Windows Defender to turn back on, but it didn’t. I keep getting a message saying my computer is unprotected.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it? [Read more…]
Question from Linda: I have a quick photography question for you, Rick. I hope you don’t mind.
I take lots of pictures with my phone and then transfer them to my computer.
When I right-click on a photo and look at the properties (metadata) it always displays the name of my phone but my name is nowhere on there as the photographer.
I’ve seen lots of photos other people have taken that have their name in the metadata as the”Author”.
How can I add my name to the metadata on the photos I take? [Read more…]
Question from Pat: When I first got my Android phone it would put an icon on the Home screen every time I installed a new app, but it’s stopped doing that.
Now I have to find every new app’s icon in the app drawer and drag it onto the Home screen manually.
I know it must be a setting that needs to be changed but I can’t find it. Can you help? [Read more…]
As I’ve mentioned before, gift cards make great gifts because they make it easy to ensure that your gift of “cash” will be spent on something the recipient really wants.
That being said, there are times when we receive gift cards for establishments that we never visit.
After all, some folks tend to give gift cards only for the places they like to shop at themselves. [Read more…]