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Are you expecting to have guests staying at your home at any time during the holiday season?
If so, it’s possible that one or more of them might ask to borrow your computer to check their email, get on Facebook, or do whatever it is they enjoy doing online.
There’s really nothing wrong with allowing a visitor to use your computer, but there are a few things you might want to do before your guests arrive: [Read more…]
Are you planning to buy a brand new Windows computer?
If so, there are a couple of things you need to do the very first time you run it:
1 – Ensure that it’s protected with an effective anti-virus program.
2 – Keep your PC malware-free!
In a perfect world, this wouldn’t even be necessary, but sadly it is. [Read more…]
Question from Kelly E.: I just bought a new computer and there’s one thing about it that has me puzzled.
When I shut the computer down (not put it to sleep, but actually shut it down) the little light on the mouse stays lit.
Why is this happening? I’ve never seen it before. Is there some way to turn it off?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Michael: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me fix a problem I’m having with a brand new PC I just finished building.
After I got everything put together I installed Windows 10 on it and made a few settings changes.
Everything seemed fine and the system booted up normally a total of three times.
But the next time I turned it on the screen stayed blank and the motherboard’s LED error code display stayed on.
I’ve tried turning it off and back on several times but it just won’t boot up.
Any thoughts on what could be causing this? I don’t think it’s a software problem because I haven’t even installed any programs on it yet.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Well, Microsoft has now released their massive annual Fall update for this year.
They’re referring to it as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and as usual they’re preparing to roll it out to user’s PCs in stages.
This update is already available for folks who want to install the update manually instead of waiting for it to “roll out” to their machines via the regular update cycle.
Lots of folks have already installed the update on their machines with with no problems whatsoever, but others haven’t been so lucky.