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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…]
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 Bruce: Rick, I have an old Windows XP computer and there’s data on its hard drive that I need to keep.
Can I turn that old drive into an external hard drive to retrieve the data, or is it more complicated than that?
Question from Gwendolyn: I write a WordPress blog where I talk about women’s issues and I always update LinkedIn with the URL to every post I write.
I’ve been doing this for over two years and LinkedIn has always displayed a photo from the post along with the title and text snippet, but lately it’s been omitting the photo about half the time.
Is there a setting that I might have inadvertently changed to cause the photo not to be displayed on some updates? Am I doing something wrong? [Read more…]
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Question from Kevin: I have 3 computers that I’m planning to place in my bedroom and my two sons’ rooms. We’re going to use these computers for just one thing, and that’s for playing games over a private LAN.
After doing some research I went to Best Buy and bought a 5 port switch and three 50ft Ethernet cables to run up into the attic and then down into each of the rooms.
These computers will NOT be connected to a modem, only to each other through the switch. We won’t need (and I don’t want) to have these computers connected to the Internet.
Now, my question – Since there will be no Internet access we won’t be able to update our virus software. Will that be a big problem or do your recommend going wireless and connecting the machines through our router so they’ll have Internet access? [Read more…]