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Question from Brenda F.: Hi Rick. I have a question about my Toshiba laptop.
I bought it about 8 months ago and everything was fine until last night.
All of a sudden I started smelling a strong burning smell coming from the bottom of the computer.
Do you think I can safely ignore the smell and keep using the laptop without causing any damage to it?
Do you have some important old messages that you don’t want to lose stored in a Yahoo Mail account that you haven’t logged into for a while?
If so, you could well be on the verge of losing those messages.
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If you have a broadband Internet connection you probably use a router to share that connection among multiple computers and mobile devices.
I frequently receive emails from folks asking if I think they need to replace their aging routers, and I usually answer them by asking a few questions of my own: [Read more…]
Question from Benji P.: Rick, I took my eight year old HP laptop to Best Buy over the weekend to have them upgrade the RAM for me.
This machine only has 4GB and I want to bump it up to 8GB. I know it can use 8GB because I looked it up.
After some back and forth the guy told me I shouldn’t waste my money upgrading a machine that was that old and proceeded to try to sell me a new computer. I don’t want a new laptop. I like this one!
My question is do you know of a place in the Raleigh, NC area that will upgrade the memory for me? Or is this something that I can possibly do myself?
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Just when I think the scammers on Facebook have reached rock bottom, they manage to come up with an even more despicable scam.
This ugly “sick child” scam makes the rounds from time to time, and unfortunately it’s back again.
It always works something like this…