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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?
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.
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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.
A great case-in-point is Lenovo’s new Legion 5 Gaming Laptop.
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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Question from Marie N.: I have an urgent question and I really hope you’ll have an answer for me.
I accidentally formatted the external USB hard drive that I use to store all of my scanned family photos with my Mac.
I meant to format the drive I use to store my Mac backups but I accidentally plugged in the wrong drive!
I hope you can help me recover my pics from it?