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Is there a Windows program (or two, or ten) that you’d really love to run but you just don’t want to ditch your Mac and buy a PC?
Well guess what? You can easily run Windows programs and apps right on your Mac while still using macOS as the machine’s primary operating system. [Read more…]
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?
Question from Stacey: Hi, Rick. I created a document in WordPad and now I want to delete it.
The problem is I can’t find any way to delete a document in WordPad.
I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find a “Delete” button. Can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]
Question from Frank: Rick, I have a computer running Windows 10 and I have a question about it.
I’m 73 years old and have terribly arthritic fingers which makes it extremely difficult for me to “double-click” on things to open them.
I read somewhere that you can change a setting that’ll make Windows open things with a single click, but I can’t find it.
I’ll be much in your debt if you’d be so kind as to tell me how to set it up. Can you tell me how? [Read more…]
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Question from Claude: I was looking at the various options for buying Microsoft Office on Amazon the other day and I saw they’re selling Microsoft Office that runs on Macs.
That really surprised me since Microsoft and Apple are direct competitors of each other.
Why do they make a Mac version of Office when that obviously encourages people who would buy a Windows computer to run MS Office on to buy a Mac instead? [Read more…]