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The Settings app is home to many of the settings you can change to tweak Windows 11 and make it work better for you.
But just like any other app, the Settings app can occasionally go sideways and stop working as it should. And in extreme cases it can stop working at all.
There are a number of things you can try in order to fix the Settings app if it starts acting up on you, but I always start with first trying to repair the app. [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…]
Are you thinking about creating a self-hosted blog or website but find the various options in web hosting to be extremely confusing?
I know just how confusing it can be when you visit a hosting company’s website and are faced with choosing the best web hosting plan for your website or blog.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to clear it all up for you in this post. [Read more…]
Question from Joyce: I’m constantly taking pictures of my grandkids and copying them onto my computer. And since I don’t want to lose them I keep my computer backed up with Carbonite.
But a nagging question has been bugging me for a while now.
Since Carbonite backs up my files automatically, how can I prevent it from backing up a virus too should I ever get one on my PC? [Read more…]
Email has long been a favorite tools of scammers, and they get better at using it for their illicit deeds every day.
One frequent scam that’s making the rounds again targets Sam’s Club members by sending them emails telling them they’ve won a “Sam’s Club Reward”.
I’ve received a deluge of questions about the legitimacy of these emails so I thought it would be best to simply write a blog post about it.