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Question from Brenda: I heard a couple of kids talking about overclocking their computers to make them run faster.
What exactly do they mean by overclocking? And it that something that I can do to speed up my HP laptop?
It’s a pretty slow machine and I’d love to overclock it if you think it’s would really help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Peyton: I recently dropped my old Yahoo email address and switched to Gmail.
But every time I load a page with Chrome the old email address keeps popping up in forms that ask for my email address.
I can delete the old address and type in the new one but I’d prefer not having the old one to pop up at all.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]
Question from Chanelle: I use Facebook a lot but I usually don’t pay much attention to the “Stories” they show at the top of the page.
But when I do see a Story that interests me it always seems to finish playing too quickly and move on to the next one before I’ve finished looking at the one I wanted to see.
Is there any way to pause a Story to give me more time to see it and read whatever writing might be on it? [Read more…]
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Question from Taylor: I recently bought a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 9020-SFF desktop computer and I really like it.
I know there are faster computers out there, but this is actually the fastest one I have ever owned.
My question is what’s the best way to add WiFi to this machine? [Read more…]
Question from KellyAnne: I just bought a new computer with Windows 11 on it.
One of the first things I did while setting it up was install FastStone Image Viewer on it because that’s what I used on my old Windows 10 computer, and I love it.
The problem I’m having is every time I try to view a photo it opens in the Photos app (which I hate) instead of FastStone.
How can I make my pictures open in FastStone Image Viewer? [Read more…]