Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
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…]
Question from Carla: My boyfriend is currently working overseas and he sends me lots of photos in zipped folders.
On my old computer I used a program called 7-Zip to unzip those folders and extract the files.
I just bought a new Windows computer and I noticed that there’s an option to unzip folders on the right-click menu.
Is there an advantage to using 7-Zip instead of the Windows tool? [Read more…]
Question from Louise: I’m in serious trouble Rick, and I need your help ASAP.
Almost two weeks ago I heard my brother was in a car wreck and he wasn’t expected to live.
I grabbed a few things and threw them in a suitcase and flew out to Utah to try to see him before he passed away.
I didn’t make it in time to see him but I spent 5 days out there with my family and came back home the day after the funeral.
When I got home I saw that my house had been broken into and ransacked. They took almost everything of value including both of my computers and my iPad.
Can you help me with a serious problem I’m having with LastPass? [Read more…]