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Question from Daniel W.: Rick, I hope you can you help me with a problem I’m having.
I recently started using the Chrome browser and I’ve noticed that it doesn’t show the entire URL of the current web page in the address bar.
For example, for your site it only shows ricksdailytips.com and nothing else for the home page URL. [Read more…]
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Well, as I write this, relief efforts are underway in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida left much of the New Orleans area under water.
Sadly, and predictably, the suffering resulting from the storm has already spawned numerous scams perpetrated by people claiming to be raising money to help the hurricane victims.
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Microsoft has just revealed in this blog post that Windows 11 will be officially released on October 5, 2021.
On that date Windows 10 users will start receiving notifications that the update to Windows 11 is ready to be installed on their computers.
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Question from Hannah: I’ve been on Facebook for a long time but my ex-boyfriend has recently started sending me nasty messages. I want to tell him off once and for all and then delete my account.
If I do that, will he still receive the message even after my account has been deleted? [Read more…]
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Question from Aaron L.: A while back I replaced the hard drive in my HP laptop with an SSD, then installed Windows 7 from the DVD.
After I got all the Windows Updates installed I upgraded the system to Windows 10.
I bought one of the external USB drive enclosures for the old hard drive, then I plugged it into a USB port and copied all of my files onto another external drive.
The SSD is working great and so is the old hard drive (which is now being used as an external drive). The problem is the old drive still contains the original partitions for the operating system and the system recovery files.
How can I reformat the old drive as one single large partition? [Read more…]