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Question from Troy: I have a three year old Windows 10 laptop that has a broken screen.
The screen is smashed pretty good and it won’t light up at all.
I checked and it would cost more to have the screen replaced than the laptop is really worth.
I plan to just junk it, but I have a lot of files on there that I’d really like to get off of it first.
Do you think I’ll be able to save my files? [Read more…]
Question from Thalia: Hi, Rick. I hope you can help me with something.
I have a Yahoo email account that I don’t use anymore because I recently switched to Gmail.
I want to delete the Yahoo email account but I have thousands of important emails in there that I really need to keep.
Can you tell me how to move all of those emails from Yahoo into my Gmail account so I can delete Yahoo without losing anything?
Question from Louis: I’d been having trouble with Windows on my Acer computer so I went online looking for a solution.
I wasn’t having much luck with my search but then I happened to stumble across your post about replacing Windows with Linux.
Well, it intrigued me, and after thinking about it for a while I held my breath and installed Linux Mint. I chose Mint over the others because you said it works a lot like Windows. [Read more…]
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Question from Brandon: A while back I bought this Canon EOS Rebel T7 camera that came with a standard 18-55mm zoom lens.
I’m happy with that lens, but I think I’ll need a different one before long.
I want to take up portrait photography and I’ve read that prime lenses are better than zoom lenses for that.
I was hoping you could recommend a really good portrait lens that’ll work with my camera. [Read more…]
Question from Mona: My 20 year old son came in to visit me for the weekend and he borrowed my computer while he was here.
After he left I noticed that the default search engine in my Chrome browser had been changed from Google to Bing.
I really prefer Google so I’d appreciate it a bunch if you can tell me how to switch it back. What do I need to do? [Read more…]