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Question from Horace: I recently noticed that several people I don’t even know are “following” me on Facebook.
I’m guessing they don’t know me either and I don’t want them seeing the things I post on my page.
How can I get rid of my current followers and prevent more people from following me in the future?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Carrie: I have a WordPress blog that averages around 2200 visitors a day.
When I first started this blog the pages loaded very quickly, almost instantly. But now it takes them forever to load, often as long as a minute or more.
I’ve read everything I could find about how to make blog pages load faster and so far nothing has helped.
I’ve cut back on my images quite a bit and optimized the ones I’m still using. I cut the number of WordPress plugins I was using from 16 to 5.
I even ran a malware scan in my blog like you recommended in this post.
I’m at a loss as to what I’m doing wrong. Do you have any idea what could be making my blog load so slowly? [Read more…]
Question from Melanie: I read an article about Windows 11 SE and they said it was meant to be Microsoft’s alternative to Chromebooks.
That sounds exactly like what I’m looking for because I don’t need anything more than a way to get on the Internet.
I checked on Amazon and a couple of other sites and I couldn’t find any computers that come with Windows 11 SE on them.
There are plenty of machines with Windows 11 on them but none with Windows 11 SE. Why not? [Read more…]
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Question from Brittney: I hope you can help me Rick. I read your blog every day and I really trust your advice.
A couple of my friends and I just rented an apartment together, and so far it’s working out ok (fingers crossed on that lol).
We had Xfinity cable and Internet installed and they placed the modem/router combo box in the living room beside the TV.
Since I can’t run a cable from the living room to my bedroom, I need to connect my Dell desktop computer to the Internet over the WiFi network. How can I do that? [Read more…]
Question from Betty: I have an Acer laptop that came with Windows 8.1.
I updated it to Windows 10 and now I’m having a problem with it.
When I finish using the laptop I can click the Shutdown icon and it shuts down just fine.
The problem is if I close the lid it doesn’t shut the laptop down like it did when it had Windows 8.1. It goes into Sleep mode instead.
Is there a way to force this my laptop to shut down automatically when I close the lid? [Read more…]