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Question from Polly: I bought a Chromebook a few months ago after my Windows laptop died, but now I’ve started having trouble with the Chromebook.
Starting last night everything I type is in all capital letters.
I checked to see if the Caps Lock key might be on, but I can’t find one.
Will you please answer these two questions? [Read more…]
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Question from Brad: I recently bought my first Chromebook and I really like it because it’s a lot faster than I expected for a laptop this cheap!
My question is what can I do to keep it running this fast?
Question from Julia: I have an ASUS Chromebook C204 that I’ve had for a while.
My husband (who is serving overseas and unavailable to help) said I might need to upgrade the RAM because the Chromebook is a lot slower than my Dell XPS 13 laptop. The thing is, he isn’t sure it can be upgraded.
I have two questions: [Read more…]
Question from Mitchell: Love your site, Rick. I have a question for you if you don’t mind.
I recently retired from a job that required me to travel frequently to multiple states.
As you can imagine, I stayed in a lot of different hotels and now my Chromebook has a long list of WiFi networks that pop up when I go to connect to a network.
Since I’m not traveling anymore I’ll never need to connect to most of those networks again. How can I remove them? [Read more…]
Question from Elisa: Hi, Rick! I love your site and I visit it every day to read your latest computer tips! Would you mind answering a question for me?
The screen in my old laptop stopped working and I replaced it with a Samsung Chromebook after reading about them in one of your posts.
After using the Chromebook for a while I can honestly say that I love it because it does everything I need it to do without have having to deal with all the hassles that go with using Windows.
Anyway, back to my question. Every once in a while I need to take a screenshot. It was easy on Windows 7 but I can’t figure out how to do it on my Chromebook.
Can you tell me how to capture a screenshot with a Chromebook? [Read more…]