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Question from Roger: I’ve heard that people are getting emails about an Equifax settlement in relation to the time they were hacked.
I’m confused because I thought that happened a long time ago. I’m thinking it might be a fraud.
Just wondering if those emails are real and if I should open it if I get one? [Read more…]
Question from Barry: Rick, I desperately need to create a System Restore Point for last Monday.
What happened was I downloaded a couple of torrent files last Tuesday and now my Windows 10 computer is all messed up.
I tried doing a System Restore back to the previous Monday, but the oldest Restore Point I see is from 4 days ago. Is there a way to create one for last Monday? [Read more…]
If you use Facebook on your smartphone, chances are you access it via Facebook’s mobile app.
Do you frequently notice that your phone’s battery charge is evaporating faster than a drop of water in the Mojave desert?
If so, the culprit could well be that app. [Read more…]
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Question from Dale: I have always kept ReadyBoost enabled on a flash drive to speed up my Windows computers.
I’ve heard people say ReadyBoost doesn’t really help but it always seemed to make my PC’s run faster.
The problem is I can’t get it to work on this new Windows 11 laptop I just bought. [Read more…]
A while back I received an email from a gentleman asking how he could play his stack of vintage DOS games on his Windows 7 laptop.
In my answer I explained how he could download and install a DOS emulator program called DOSBOX that would allow those old games to run under Windows 10.
If you too would like to play vintage computer games on your Windows PC there’s an even easier solution than using DOSBOX.
I recently stumbled across a wonderful website called gog.com (short for “Good Old Games”) which sells hundreds of old DOS and early Windows games that have been ported to run on the latest versions of Windows right out of the virtual box. [Read more…]