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Question from Dolly F.: I bought a Surface Pro 4 back in December and I recently started noticing a very faint, but irritating screen flicker.
I’ve tried changing pretty much all the available screen settings and installed all the latest updates but I just can’t get the flickering to stop.
This is absolutely driving me up the wall!
If you can tell me how to get this to stop you’ll be my hero lol. Thanks for your help in advance. Love your site by the way.
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Question from Kenny W.: I recently upgraded my HP laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and I have a problem that I can’t figure out.
When I try to change some of the system settings the settings options are disabled and the screen displays this message:
“Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization.”
The thing is I’m not part of an organization. This is my own private computer.
How can I fix this so that I can make changes to the system settings on my PC?
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As you probably know by now, Twitter recently announced that a glitch has caused every Twitter user’s password to (possibly) be leaked to hackers.
In order to mitigate any damage caused by the data leak Twitter has strongly recommended that all users change the passwords on their accounts right away.
Since that announcement was made I’ve received several requests for instructions for resetting the password on Twitter. That got me to thinking that maybe I should write those instructions up in a blog post. [Read more…]
Question from Nikki W.: I have a terrible problem Rick. I took my HP desktop tower to our local computer shop because it wouldn’t boot up into Windows.
Long story short, the guy told me the hard drive was bad and he would have to replace it and then reinstall Windows 7.
I got the computer back yesterday and it seems to run ok, but after I use Chrome for a while I get a message telling me the memory is running low.
I looked at the System Information screen and it said there was only 3.4GB of RAM installed. I know for a fact that it had 8GB in it when I took it to the shop. Oh, and the sound isn’t working either.
My main problem is the guy stole some of my RAM and I need to know what I can do to make him put it back in since I can’t prove how much RAM was in it when I took it to his shop. And I hope you can help me get the sound working too. Can you give me some advice?
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Question from Darla: I have an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 8.1 on it.
I recently started seeing this message every time I turn it on:
“A hard drive in the system reports that it may fail.”
The thing is the hard drive is working just fine.
Can you tell me what do I need to do to get the computer to stop showing me this message?
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