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Q&A: Can I change the name of a label in Gmail?

Posted on June 10, 2024

Question from Amber: I hope you can help me with a Gmail problem.

For several years I’ve been organizing and coordinating all of our annual family reunions, and that includes sending out emails about upcoming reunions to a couple of hundred family members.

To make that task easier to manage and track I created a new label in Gmail a while back just for emails pertaining to the reunions.

Now I’d like to change the name of that label to something that better identifies the emails as being reunion-related.

I have three questions that I hope you’ll answer for me. [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I make Firefox open email links in Gmail?

Posted on June 5, 2024

Question from Raymond: I hope you can help me solve a problem I’m having with email links, Rick. It’s absolutely driving me up the wall.

Whenever I click an email link on a web page in Firefox it automatically loads Outlook from my hard drive, and I don’t want it to.

I switched my email from Outlook to Gmail several months ago but I can’t figure out how to make email links open automatically in Gmail without having to copy the link and paste it into a new blank email.

Can you tell me what I need to do to fix that? [Read more…]

Q&A: Is AdChoices malware?

Posted on June 1, 2024

Question from Kenny: This morning I noticed that my favorite website has started showing videos from something called AdChoices, and I find them really annoying.

They were never there before today so I’m wondering if they’re supposed to be.

My question: Is AdChoices a malware infection? [Read more…]

Q&A: How can protect my important work files from accidental deletion?

Posted on May 31, 2024

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Question from Ellen: Hi, Rick. I’m a freelance graphic artist and I do all of my work on a Dell desktop computer running Windows 11.

I have hundreds of images that have either already been delivered to the customer or waiting to be delivered, and about a dozen more that are works in progress.

The problem is my husband and daughter also use this computer for Facebook, homework and games. I’m deathly afraid that my important files might get deleted somehow.

Is there a dependable and secure way to make sure they don’t end up getting deleted somehow? [Read more…]

Q&A: Why are the files I delete not going into the Recycle Bin?

Posted on May 29, 2024

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Question from Matthew: I have a Dell laptop that I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

Before the upgrade, whenever I would delete a file it went into the “Recycle Bin” where I could recover it later if I wanted to.

But now under Windows 11, all the files that I delete are gone forever and nothing ever gets placed into the Recycle Bin.

How can I fix this? [Read more…]