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Question from Danica: Rick, I recently purchased a 10″ Android tablet and I really like it.
It came with a keyboard cover but the keys on it are way too small for me to type without making lots of mistakes.
Is it possible to use a regular full-sized USB computer keyboard with a tablet? [Read more…]
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Question from David: Hi, Rick. I hope you can give me some advice about a networking issue.
My cable modem is located in my living room but my computer is in the bedroom. I’d like your recommendation on the best way to connect them.
I have decided that I’d rather not use Wi-Fi, so is there any way to connect my computer to the modem without using a router? [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: Rick, my two year old laptop wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.
Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new laptop.
The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead laptop’s hard drive that I desperately want to get off of it and onto my new Laptop. [Read more…]
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Question from Elaine: Every day we hear about Facebook being hacked and it seems like my friends are getting hacked all the time.
Why is Facebook so easy to hack? You’d think they could afford to provide better security.
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Question from Malinda: I have an almost new Acer laptop with Windows 11 on it.
It was working fine until I turned it on yesterday morning, but now I can’t see the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen unless I move my mouse down there.
I don’t know what happened but it’s really annoying. How can I stop the Taskbar from disappearing on me? [Read more…]