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Question from Cindy: I’ve used Yahoo mail for decades but I recently started having problems with it.
I finally got fed up with it and switched to Gmail this morning. I’ve already imported my Yahoo emails and contacts into the new Gmail account.
Since I really don’t need the Yahoo account anymore, can you tell me how to delete it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Mona: My 20 year old son came in to visit me for the weekend and he borrowed my computer while he was here.
After he left I noticed that the default search engine in my Chrome browser had been changed from Google to Bing.
I really prefer Google so I’d appreciate it a bunch if you can tell me how to switch it back. What do I need to do? [Read more…]
Question from Cynthia: I was talking to a friend of mine about the big Yahoo hack from a while back.
He told me I should delete my Yahoo account since I switched from Yahoo Mail to Gmail after that happened.
I’ve searched all the settings and options in Yahoo and I can’t find a way to delete my account.
Can you tell me what I need to do delete my entire Yahoo account (not just the email part)? [Read more…]
Yahoo has been a major player in the online world from virtually day one, and for the longest time one of my favorite sections of the site was Yahoo Answers.
If you’re unfamiliar with Yahoo Answers, it’s basically a much older, but less-polished version of Quora.
Back in the day I really enjoyed spending time reading the questions and answers posted there, and there was about a two year stretch when I interacted with the other users there quite a bit.
But then strange things started happening over there…
Do you have some important old messages that you don’t want to lose stored in a Yahoo Mail account that you haven’t logged into for a while?
If so, you could well be on the verge of losing those messages.