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If you’ve been using Microsoft Windows for a while you’re probably quite familiar with Windows Updates.
These periodic updates to the Windows operating system do everything from patching newly-discovered security holes to adding entirely new features the OS.
Unfortunately, they also occasionally cause problems and one of the latest updates to Windows 10 is causing a big one.
If you enjoy listening to the radio, chances are you occasionally hear a song and wonder who’s singing it or what its title is.
Well, now you can stop wondering thanks to a nifty free smartphone app called Shazam.
Question from Aaron S: Hi Rick. I really like your blog and appreciate all the help you give to so many people.
I hope you can help me with an issue I’m having with my HP laptop.
Ever since I updated it to Windows 10 the WiFi automatically disconnects after about 30 minutes and I have to reboot the computer to get it turned back on.
How can I keep the WiFi working until I actually shut the laptop down?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Oliver P.: I need some advice for choosing an antivirus app for an older computer.
I have a Dell desktop PC with Windows 7 on it. This machine came with a pair of 2GB RAM sticks installed for a total of 4GB of RAM.
One of the RAM sticks went bad so I removed it.
I not going to replace the bad RAM stick because I’m planning to just use this computer offline for various things since Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows 7.
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Adding an external USB hard drive to your computer really makes it easy to create full backups of all your programs, photos, music and other files that reside on today’s massive hard drives.
And as we all know, with mass storage devices, bigger is always better.
The Seagate Expansion 16TB Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive will likely hold everything you can pack on to your computer’s internal hard drive, and a whole lot more. [Read more…]