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Question from Gary M.: I have my photos and Lightroom catalog on my USB drive and move them from my laptop to desktop. It would make my life easier if it presented as the J: drive every time it’s plugged into either machine.
How can I force my external USB drive to present itself as the same drive letter every time it’s plugged in no matter which PC I plug it into?
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Another day, another scam. This one is perpetrated via an email that claims to be from Google – but it isn’t.
The subject line of the scam email varies, but it usually is something like “Lookout Notice” or “Mail Notice“. If you happen to accidentally open the email, you’ll see text similar to this: [Read more…]
Question from Margie H.: Hi Rick. I have an iPhone 5s and sometimes I want to delete just one or two text messages from a conversation without deleting the rest of the messages. I just can’t figure out how to do it.
How can I delete just the messages I want to get rid of without trashing the whole conversation?
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Question from Fran A.: I have a problem Rick. Somehow the start pages of all my web browsers have gotten changed to Tuvaro Search Engine and I can’t get rid of it. Even if I manually reset my home page back to what it was before, the browsers always open up to Tuvaro Search.
I ran my AVG Antivirus, Malwarebytes and Spybot and none of them got rid of this thing. Of course I also tried removing it with the “Uninstall a program” thingy, but that didn’t work either. Can you tell me how to remove Tuvaro from my browsers?
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If you have an account with the URL shortening service Bitly, the company recommends that you log in to your account ASAP to change your password and reset your API key.
Of course this will only affect you if you actually have an account with Bitly. It’s entirely possible to use the service to shorten a URL without opening an account, and plenty of people do.
If you do have a Bitly account, follow these steps to change your password and reset your API key: [Read more…]