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Question from Yvette S.: Hi, Rick. I have a question about my three year old MacBook Pro.
My son usually helps me but he’s out of town at the moment.
It needs a new battery, but I can’t find the model number so I don’t know which battery I need to buy.
Can you tell me where to look for the model number? [Read more…]
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Question from Braden: Hello, Rick. I recently took your advice and added an SSD to my three year old desktop computer.
I left the original hard drive installed as a data drive which begs the following question:
Do you recommend leaving the Page File on the SSD or moving it to the hard drive? [Read more…]
Question from Polly: I bought a Chromebook a few months ago after my Windows laptop died, but now I’ve started having trouble with the Chromebook.
Starting last night everything I type is in all capital letters.
I checked to see if the Caps Lock key might be on, but I can’t find one.
Will you please answer these two questions? [Read more…]
Question from Carita: I’ve decided to take your advice about replacing the hard drive in my computer with an SSD.
I’ll be installing a 240GB SSD as the primary drive and leaving the 1TB hard drive installed in the computer as a secondary drive for extra storage.
The problem is I’m pretty sure the SSD will be too small to hold all the programs I currently use.
Will I be able to install some of them onto the hard drive even though the operating system (Windows 11) will be on the SSD? [Read more…]
Question from Renée: I hope you can help me with a problem I’m having.
Sometimes when I’m on the Internet the Bookmarks bar will just disappear and I have to go into the browser settings to put it back.
Have you ever heard of this? [Read more…]