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Question from Earl: I hope you don’t mind but I need help with something.
I’m 78 years old and my fingers are stiff and in almost constant pain from arthritis.
I can use a mouse fairly well but I have a hard time using a keyboard.
I know how to lock my computer using the keyboard but is there any way to do it with the mouse instead? [Read more…]
Question from Janet: A while back my sister wanted to buy a game for my daughter to play on her tablet so I let her enter my credit card info into Google Play and buy it.
But now with all the hacking that’s been going on lately I’m really nervous about having my credit card info online.
Can you please tell me how to remove my card number from the Google Play app? [Read more…]
Question from Mike: I install lots of free software and I always create a new System Restore Point before installing a program just in case something goes wrong.
I think Windows is great, but as you know, things do go wrong sometimes.
My boss told me that relying on System Restore for my backups isn’t good enough. He said I need to create System Image backups too, but I think that’s overkill.
What’s your opinion on this? [Read more…]
Question from Myra: I have several hundred friends on Facebook but sometimes I post things that I only want a small selected group of those friends to see.
These posts often contain church related info that wouldn’t be of interest to anyone except the friends who attend my church.
Is it possible to only allow those specific “church” friends to see those special posts and hide them from all the rest of my friends? [Read more…]
Question from Cole: For a while now Windows Update has been prompting me to update from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
I finally got tired of seeing that message so I went ahead and let it install Windows 11.
But now that Windows 11 is on my computer all of my Desktop icons are gone. Can you tell me how to get them back? [Read more…]