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Question from Malinda: I have an almost new Acer laptop with Windows 11 on it.
It was working fine until I turned it on yesterday morning, but now I can’t see the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen unless I move my mouse down there.
I don’t know what happened but it’s really annoying. How can I stop the Taskbar from disappearing on me? [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
By now you probably know better than to click or tap on links in emails because that’s one of the easiest ways to infect your device with a virus.
After all, once you click a link and visit an infected website, the damage is done.
Well, the same thing is now happening on smartphones as well, only the malware is being spread via text messages. [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Question from Callie: All of a sudden Gmail has started grouping all the messages I’ve received from someone and my replies to those messages all together instead of just listing them individually.
Can you tell me what I need to do to get Gmail to list the emails I receive individually, with the newest one on top like it used to? [Read more…]
There are times when it would be nice to be able to fire up your favorite web browser and continue browsing all the sites you were visiting the last time the browser was open.
For example, perhaps you accidentally closed your web browser before you finished everything that you wanted to do on the web.
Or maybe a storm rolled in and you had to shut down and unplug your computer in a hurry in order to protect it from a potential lightning strike.
Whatever caused you to end your previous browsing session prematurely, I have good news for you… [Read more…]
I often write about the need to carefully evaluate the search results you are given in response to your web searches.
In short, you can’t blindly trust what pops up when you search for something, especially if your query was financial in nature.
This recent news report shines a bright spotlight on this danger.