Rick's Daily Tips

Q&A: How do I stop the Microsoft Store from freezing up on me?

Posted on October 1, 2022

Question from Elian: Every time I open the Microsoft Store and try to search for an app it freezes up on me.

The only way it will close is if I kill it with the Task Manager.

Posted on September 30, 2022

Question from Roger: Rick, I followed your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with a solid state drive (SSD).

I’m absolutely blown away by how much faster the laptop boots up and how much faster my programs load.

I do have one question though. I read in another forum that SSDs don’t get fragmented and they never need to be defragged. Is that true?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Posted on September 30, 2022

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Question from Robert: About a year ago I built a new gaming PC and installed Windows 11 on it.

A few days ago I installed this Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD thinking it would be a LOT faster than the hard drive.

Well, it isn’t. It actually takes forever for some games to load. [Read more…]

Posted on September 29, 2022

Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter

Does your Internet service occasionally go out due to storms or equipment failure?

If so, you know how irritating it can be when you have to wait for a tech to come out and restore your service.

But guess what? In a pinch, you can use your smartphone’s cellular data connection to access the Internet with your computer. [Read more…]