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If you’re a music lover who has an iPhone, iPad or Mac, you most likely have a subscription to Apple Music that you listen to on your Apple device.
But guess what? If you happen to be a Windows user that doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of everything that Apple Music has to offer.
Truth be told, there are actually a couple of different ways you can listen to Apple Music on your Windows PC (although one way works a lot better than the other). [Read more…]
Question from Calvin: I just bought a new computer and every time I select some files in File Explorer it places those annoying check boxes beside the files I selected.
I don’t need those check boxes since the files I select are highlighted anyway.
My old computer didn’t have those check boxes. I’m hoping you can tell me how to remove them from the new one? [Read more…]
Question from Gary: I’m getting ready to turn over a bunch of files to another party and I don’t want him to know exactly when these particular files were created.
Don’t worry, there’s nothing illegal or immoral going on here, we’re just doing a business deal and I don’t want the files’ creation dates to become an issue.
Is there any way to change a file’s creation date with a Windows computer? [Read more…]
Question from Larry: I read your post explaining the advantages of installing an SSD a while back and I’ve wanted one ever since to go in my HP desktop PC.
I ended up buying a 120GB SSD (I got it for $20!) and installed it as the boot drive in my HP desktop computer. I left the 750GB hard drive in there for extra storage.
I installed Windows 10 from scratch on the SSD and now I’m ready to install my programs. The thing is with only 120GB of space on the SSD it won’t hold anywhere near all of my programs.
I have a couple of questions for you:
1 – Which programs should I install on the SSD and which ones should I leave on the hard drive?
2 – Should I leave the original Windows 10 files on the hard drive or is it safe to delete them to free up that space?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from William: Every time I check for new Windows Updates on my Windows 10 Lenovo laptop it tells me there are a couple of driver updates available as “optional” updates.
Should I go ahead and let Windows Update install those optional updates or should I just skip them?
I’ve been confused by this for a long time.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]