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Question from Melanie: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question I have about my WordPress blog.
Is there any way to hide a category from the home page?
In other words I want to keep the posts in this one specific category from showing up on the main page of my blog.
I’ve searched the settings pages from top to bottom and I can’t find a setting to hide a category from the home page. If there is one can you tell me how to find it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Karlie: I use my laptop late at night while hubby is trying to sleep, but sometimes the light from the screen keeps him awake.
A friend at work told me I could enable ‘Dark Mode’ on the laptop and it wouldn’t put out near as much light.
I’d love to give that a try. Can you tell me how to turn on Dark Mode on a laptop with Windows 10?
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Question from Mitchell: Love your site, Rick. I have a question for you if you don’t mind.
I recently retired from a job that required me to travel frequently to multiple states.
As you can imagine, I stayed in a lot of different hotels and now my Chromebook has a long list of WiFi networks that pop up when I go to connect to a network.
Since I’m not traveling anymore I’ll never need to connect to most of those networks again. How can I remove them? [Read more…]
Question from Darlene: I keep seeing this being posted by a lot of my friends on Facebook:
“Day 1 of 10 Day Grandma Celebration. Post a pic everyday for 10 days that celebrates being a grandma. No words. Today I challenge – …“
I’ve seen slightly different versions of this message too.
I know a lot of things like this are scams. Is this one safe to participate in, or should I skip it? [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…]