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Q&A: Did I damage my laptop while installing an SSD?

Posted on April 20, 2023

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Question from Shane: I recently found your blog, and I love it. Great job!

I took your advice and replaced the hard drive in my laptop with an SSD to make it run faster.

Everything seems to be working ok and the speed increase is incredible, but I’m worried that I might have possibly damaged something while I was swapping out the drives. [Read more…]

Q&A: How do I check my gift card balance on Amazon?

Posted on April 19, 2023

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Question from Debbie: Hello, Rick. You seem to be an expert on all things Amazon so I’d like to ask you a question about it if you don’t mind.

I think I remember adding a gift card to my Amazon account a while back, but I don’t know how to check to see for sure.

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

Q&A: How do I disable ‘Dictation’ on my iPhone?

Posted on April 17, 2023

Question from Ryanna: I’m always accidentally hitting the “Microphone” button when I’m typing on my iPhone and I hate it.

I never use Dictation anyway so I’d like to disable it. How do I do that? [Read more…]

Q&A: What happened to the Control Panel in Windows 11?

Posted on April 17, 2023

Question from Kerry: I have a Windows 11 question for you if you don’t mind.

I used to be a Windows guy, but when Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 I decided to switch to a Mac.

Well, my Mac recently bit the dust and I decided to switch back to Windows. Long story short, I ended up buying an HP all-on-one desktop computer with Windows 11 on it.

Back when I was using Windows 7 I could open the Control Panel from the Start menu, but that’s apparently not the case with Windows 11. I’ve looked high and low and I can’t find it.

I’m pretty sure Windows 11 still has a Control Panel because I think I remember seeing it mentioned on your site before. Can you tell me how to find it? [Read more…]