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Question from Kandi: I bought my 9 year old son a new laptop for his birthday. He loves it and uses it every day.
The problem is I have already had to take it to the Geek Squad twice to fix issues he caused by changing some system settings.
I know that’s what he’s doing because I saw him using the Settings app.
Is there a way to disable the Settings app on his computer to prevent that from happening again? I really need to preserve my sanity! [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 newer PC with Windows 10 or Windows 11 on it, chances are you like it. I hope you do anyway.
Personally, I think the most recent versions of Windows are OK, but there’s one thing about them that I don’t like one bit.
I’m guessing you won’t be all that fond of it either. [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…]
If you’ve been using Microsoft Windows for a while you know it’s famous for occasionally “freezing up”.
And unfortunately, when that happens it can be difficult to get the system to respond to your mouse clicks and key presses.