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Question from Amber: I’ve been shopping online for a new laptop and I’ve noticed that a lot of the lowest-priced Windows laptops have Windows 11 S installed on them.
I’d never heard of Windows 11 S before I started shopping for a new laptop. And now I’m really confused.
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Question from Elliot: A year and a half ago I bought a wireless keyboard/mouse combo to make it easier to use my laptop. I hate those trackpads and small keyboards!
I was typing an email this morning and all of a sudden the keyboard just stopped working. I figured the batteries needed to be replaced, but new ones didn’t fix the problem.
The mouse still works fine and a wired keyboard I plugged in works too. I rebooted the laptop but that didn’t help.
What do you think might be the problem? [Read more…]
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Question from Peyton: I recently dropped my old Yahoo email address and switched to Gmail.
But every time I load a page with Chrome the old email address keeps popping up in forms that ask for my email address.
I can delete the old address and type in the new one but I’d prefer not having the old one to pop up at all.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: My computer has started giving me all kinds of pop-ups and taking me to the wrong web pages when I click a link in Firefox.
In other words, it’s acting really strange. I believe it might have viruses on it.
My boss told me that the Geek Squad at Best Buy will remove viruses for free. Is that true? [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: I recently learned that every email I send with my iPhone includes a line that says “Sent from my iPhone”.
There are times when I’d rather not tip off the recipient that I sent their email using my phone.
Is there any way to remove the “Sent from my iPhone” message from my outgoing emails? [Read more…]