Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Eileen: I just got my first Windows 11 computer and it looks a lot different that Windows 10.
Most of the changes are ok but I hate how the scrollbars are hidden in some apps until I move my mouse over to the right.
Is there any way to make the scrollbars remain visible all the time in Windows 11? [Read more…]
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…]
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Question from Sondra: I decided that I want to buy my husband a really nice TV for his birthday so I went to Walmart to pick one out.
What an exercise in confusion that turned out to be!
When I got to Walmart the TV section had dozens to choose from and the picture quality ranged from fair to really good, even on similar models.
How on earth is one to choose from all those different TV’s under those conditions? [Read more…]
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Question from George: I know your site is mostly about computers but I hope you can answer a question about my audio gear.
I have an older Sony stereo system that I’d love to connect some Bluetooth speakers and headphones to.
The problem is the stereo doesn’t have Bluetooth built in.
Is there any way to connect Bluetooth speakers/headphones to one of these old non-Bluetooth stereos? [Read more…]
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…]