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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, September 7, 2022
• Q&A: Do some VPNs cause you to get SPAM emails?
• How to schedule a Gmail message for future delivery
• Q&A: Is this email from PayPal real or am I being scammed?
• Q&A: Why do we always see the same side of the moon?
Question from Mike: I love your newsletter, Rick. I read it every morning!
I hope you can answer a question for me.
The battery in my trusty Lenovo G570 laptop has gone bad and I need to replace it.
I really love this laptop now that I’ve taken your advice and put Linux on it.
I’d really like to keep using it if I can, but I don’t want to spend a fortune on a battery for it.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, September 4, 2022
• Q&A: How do I stop Edge from giving me suggestions in the address bar?
• Scam alert: Beware scams offering a sweet deal on Internet service
• Why you should always travel with a portable surge protector/USB charger
• “After the Storm”
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, August 27, 2022
• How to see which version of ChromeOS is on your Chromebook
• Q&A: How do I move my old Yahoo emails into Gmail?
• Q&A: What’s the hotkey for locking the screen in Linux Mint?
• Q&A: Is Colonial Penn life insurance a scam?
Question from Marvin: I read your article about upgrading a computer by adding an SSD to make it run faster.
The following weekend I went to Best Buy and bought a 1TB SSD and cloned the contents of the existing 500GB hard disk onto it.
I then wiped the hard drive and installed the SSD in the computer, leaving the now-blank hard drive in place to store my data files on.
Everything works perfectly but something has me baffled. When I look in the BIOS it says the hard drive is set as the boot drive.
How is this machine booting into Windows when the boot drive is blank?