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Question from Robert: About a year ago I built a new gaming PC and installed Windows 11 on it.
A few days ago I installed this Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD thinking it would be a LOT faster than the hard drive.
Well, it isn’t. It actually takes forever for some games to load. [Read more…]
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Question from Jeannie: Hi, Rick. I need a little help with a Windows 11 issue if you don’t mind.
When I had Windows 10 on my laptop I could put it onto Tablet mode and I could do a lot of what I needed to do just by touching icons and links and other stuff on the screen.
That was a blessing to me because I have severe arthritis in my hands and that makes it really hard to use the mouse and keyboard.
I recently allowed the update to replace Windows 10 with Windows 11 and now I can’t figure out how to enable Tablet mode on it. Everything is so different!
Can you please tell me how to enable Tablet mode in Windows 11? [Read more…]
If you have a computer with Windows 11 installed on it there might come a time when you’ll need to provide someone with the ‘Product Key’ for your Windows installation.
There are several ways to retrieve the product key from the Windows installation itself, but the easiest way is to use the Windows ‘Command Line’. Here’s how: [Read more…]
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A while back I wrote a post explaining how hackers are using rogue apps and other forms of malware to spy on folks via their computers’ webcams.
That post also explains how to prevent it from happening.
As it turns out, some miscreants have been spying on us via our machines’ microphones as well. And in some ways that’s just as bad as having them spy on us via webcam. [Read more…]
Question from Eileen: I took some pictures with my new phone and downloaded them to my computer (HP desktop with Windows 11).
All the photos look fine when I view them on the phone, but on the computer several of my favorites are crooked.
Is there a way to straighten them without installing an extra program? [Read more…]