Rick's Daily Tips

Did you know you can play thousands of vintage DOS-era computer games, for free?

Posted on February 25, 2021

Are you old enough to remember all the classic computer games from the days of MS-DOS?

If so, you might be interested to know that you can play literally thousands of those nostalgic games for free, right in your web browser!

Posted on February 25, 2021

Question from Randi F.: I’m taking French this year and I have a question about using that language with my laptop.

I’d really like to have a second Windows user account with French set as the language.

I’ve heard this can be done but I don’t know how to set it up. Can you tell me how to do it?

Posted on February 24, 2021

Are you aware that unused online accounts are at risk of being hijacked by hackers who can then use them to do malicious things in your name?

That’s one of the reasons why I wrote this post.

Unused accounts also unnecessarily consume a portion of the service provider’s resources that could be used by other accounts.

Posted on February 23, 2021

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Most gamers have long preferred desktop gaming PCs over gaming laptops because of their superior power and upgradability.

However, recent advancements in CPU and video technology have reduced that gap quite a bit.

Posted on February 22, 2021

Question from Perry S.: I have an older Dell desktop PC that I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

I really like this computer and I use it every day to check my email and other various tasks.

I got a low disk space warning the other day so I ran Disk Cleanup and then tried to uninstall several programs that I never use.

Everything uninstalled just fine until I got to Firefox. The Windows Uninstaller tool won’t remove it, and neither will Revo Uninstaller.

Do you know of a way to remove Firefox from this machine? Perhaps a manual method that I could try?

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