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If you use an Android device you might have noticed that there’s a mysterious folder named LOST.DIR on your SD card.
If you look inside this folder you’ll see that it contains a bunch of weird numbered files.
Many people end up deleting this folder, thinking it might be a virus, but truth be told, it isn’t.
Question from Denise: I recently started a new job and the IT folks said I can connect my personal laptop to their network but only if it has something called Secure Boot enabled?
Can you tell me what that is and how to check to see if its enabled?
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Wireless routers make it very easy to share your high speed Internet connection with guests and family members.
They also make it easy to use your laptop or mobile devices in any room in the house without running cables all over the place.
But if you live in a large house and/or have multiple devices all using the Internet at the same time, chances are your WiFi connection is weaker and slower than it could be due to obstructions, distance and bandwidth limitations. [Read more…]
Have you ever needed to capture a screen shot of an entire web page only to be frustrated because the entire page wouldn’t fit on the screen?
I sure have, and it’s pretty frustrating indeed when you have to capture the page in segments and try to stitch them together later.
Well, there’s a great web-based tool that’ll quickly create a screenshot of an entire web page, regardless of its length or width and allow you to save the resulting screenshot image as a PNG file. [Read more…]
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Question from Dale: I have always kept ReadyBoost enabled on a flash drive to speed up my Windows computers.
I’ve heard people say ReadyBoost doesn’t really help but it always seemed to make my PC’s run faster.
The problem is I can’t get it to work on this new Windows 11 laptop I just bought. [Read more…]