Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Harley: I own a small business with six employees.
I just bought brand new Windows desktop computers for every desk. They were close-outs and I got a really good deal.
The fellow who delivered the machines and set them up gave all of them names that are little more than random strings of characters.
How do I change the ‘Device Names’ on these computers to something that’s more descriptive? [Read more…]
Do you often receive photos and other files that were sent to you as attachments to Gmail messages?
If so, it might be a good idea to save a copy of the important attachments in order to prevent losing them if those emails ever get deleted or lost. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Question from Kyle: I won a storage auction and there were four identical desktop computers in there.
I hooked them up and found they all work.
I know these are old, slow machines. That got me to thinking.
Would it be possible to install the motherboards from two of these computers in a custom case and have them work together as a single computer that runs twice as fast as one of them runs? [Read more…]
Question from Marvin: I read your article about upgrading a computer by adding an SSD to make it run faster.
The following weekend I went to Best Buy and bought a 1TB SSD and cloned the contents of the existing 500GB hard disk onto it.
I then wiped the hard drive and installed the SSD in the computer, leaving the now-blank hard drive in place to store my data files on.
Everything works perfectly but something has me baffled. When I look in the BIOS it says the hard drive is set as the boot drive.
How is this machine booting into Windows when the boot drive is blank?
Question from Gary: In addition to your awesome blog I also read the one that Kim Komando writes.
I recently read an article in which she discussed several things that can indicate that a website is outdated.
Then she said something that both puzzles and concerns me.