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HP has always made great budget laptops, and their latest offerings are some of the best yet.
The prices of laptops with solid state storage have dropped so much that I now have difficulty recommending any PC that doesn’t have a solid state boot drive.
I recently had the opportunity to check out a new budget laptop from HP that’s just as affordable as a ChromeBook, yet has blazing fast solid state storage and runs Windows 10!
Question from Judy: When I purchased my PC with windows 10, it came with Microsoft Edge as the web browser.
I preferred using Google Chrome so I installed it and set it as my default browser.
The other day Windows updated and automatically installed a new version of Microsoft Edge.
Now I’m not sure if I should keep Chrome as my default browser or use Edge. What do you recommend?
Also, should I delete whichever one I decide not to use?
I would appreciate your thoughts on which is the best way to go. Thank you.
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Question from Alice D.: The hard drive in my Mac stopped working and I had to have it replaced.
When I got the computer back from the shop I realized I needed to install the driver and software for my Brother MFC-J6520DW printer.
The problem is I seem to have lost the disc. I’ve searched my office from top to bottom and I can’t find it anywhere.
Can you help me track down a copy of the software online? I’ll even buy a CD if I need to.
I love this printer and I really don’t want to replace it unless I absolutely have to.
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Question from Paul: Back in 2013 I bought a custom built gaming PC from a guy I knew back then.
I’ve since lost contact with him (I think he moved out of state) and I can no longer ask him for help with things like this.
Anyway, this machine came with Windows 7 on it but I updated it to Windows 10 after Microsoft abandoned Windows 7.
Windows 10 works great on it, but ever since I installed Windows 10 the Windows Updates have been automatically installing new hardware drivers that keep causing the system to crash.
After almost every Windows Update is installed I have to manually reinstall the original hardware drivers from the CD to get the computer to stop crashing (glad I still have that CD!).
Is there any way to prevent Windows 10 from updating the hardware drivers every time it downloads and installs new updates to Windows? This is really frustrating!
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Question from Elizabeth: I’m having a problem with my MacBook, Rick. It just started last week.
Every time I shut it down the screen resolution is wrong and the volume is at full blast after I start it up again.
Do you know what’s causing this? Thanks in advance.
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