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Question from Helen S.: Hi Rick. Based upon your recommendation, I’ve been using CCleaner to keep my Windows laptop cleaned out and optimized for some time now. I really appreciate you telling us about things like this!
My daughter just bought a brand new MacBook Pro
Thanks in advance for your advice!
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Question from Peter: Lots of programs that I’ve downloaded to my Mac in the past failed to run because they weren’t “approved” by Apple (whatever that means).
Today I heard the tail end of a tech show I listen to on talk radio and they said something about a change in the latest version of macOS that’ll let you run unapproved software.
I’m wondering if this is true because after I got home I tried running a couple of programs that I downloaded a while back and they still won’t run for me.
What’s the story?
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Question from Leslie: It seems like Microsoft is really pushing customers to sign up for a subscription to Office 365 instead of buying a copy of Office 2019.
Do you think they’re planning to stop selling desktop versions of MS Office and force everyone to start using Office 365 instead?
The reason I’m asking is I just bought a new PC and I’m trying to decide whether to buy Office 2019 or sign up for Office 365.
I don’t want to buy Office 2019 if they’re just going to abandon it like they do older versions of Windows.
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Question from Melanie W.: I have a question about Twitter that I hope you can answer for me.
I’m following a woman who’s a news anchor on my local TV station.
I really love her tweets because they’re always interesting and informative, but she retweets like crazy and most of the things she retweets don’t interest me at all.
I know I could unfollow her but then I wouldn’t be able to see the tweets she posts.
Is there a way to keep following this person and see the tweets she posts herself but not see any of her retweets?
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Question from Cal: I’ve had the same Internet service through Charter for 4 years with no problems whatsoever.
But a few days ago the strangest thing started happening.
I’ll start playing a game and after exactly 3 minutes (I timed it) the Internet will disconnect and it’ll say “Attempting to reconnect”.
Every time this happens I always have to restart my computer in order to re-establish the connection.
It only does this when I’m playing a game, but it does it with every game I play. It doesn’t disconnect at all when I’m using the Internet for other things or watching Hulu.
Any idea what could be causing this?
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