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Question from Brenda F.: Hi Rick. I have a question about my Toshiba laptop.
I bought it about 8 months ago and everything was fine until last night.
All of a sudden I started smelling a strong burning smell coming from the bottom of the computer.
Do you think I can safely ignore the smell and keep using the laptop without causing any damage to it?
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If you have a broadband Internet connection you probably use a router to share that connection among multiple computers and mobile devices.
I frequently receive emails from folks asking if I think they need to replace their aging routers, and I usually answer them by asking a few questions of my own: [Read more…]
Question from Benji P.: Rick, I took my eight year old HP laptop to Best Buy over the weekend to have them upgrade the RAM for me.
This machine only has 4GB and I want to bump it up to 8GB. I know it can use 8GB because I looked it up.
After some back and forth the guy told me I shouldn’t waste my money upgrading a machine that was that old and proceeded to try to sell me a new computer. I don’t want a new laptop. I like this one!
My question is do you know of a place in the Raleigh, NC area that will upgrade the memory for me? Or is this something that I can possibly do myself?
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Question from Francine: I have a computer with Windows 10 on it.
It used to be that when I tried to delete a file a message would pop up asking if I really wanted to delete it, but not anymore.
Now the file is just deleted immediately with no chance to change my mind.
I really need those confirmation messages because I’ve caught myself trying to delete the wrong file several times in the past.
Can you tell me how to get Windows to start asking me to confirm file deletions again?
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Question from Blake V.: Hi Rick. I have a WordPress question if you don’t mind.
I blog about Bluegrass music.
I have categories for new CD releases, show dates, equipment reviews…you name it.
If it pertains to Bluegrass music, I write about it.
I’ve had several people ask me if I could create an RSS feed just for the “Show Dates” category because that’s the only thing those particular people come to my blog to see.
Is there a setting I can change or maybe a plugin I can use to create an RSS feed just for that one category?
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