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Well, summer is officially here, and that means the long, hot days to come will be spawning plenty of electrical storms.
There’s really nothing you can do to keep the coming storms at bay, but there are several things you can do that would greatly reduce the risk of a lightning strike damaging your expensive computer equipment.
Here are a few tips for protecting your computer from lightning strikes: [Read more…]
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Question from Eric S.: I’m seriously considering taking your advice about installing an SSD in my Lenovo desktop PC just to install my programs on.
I mostly just use Photoshop and Lightroom along with a couple of web browsers.
I’m not really interested in making the SSD the boot drive by installing Windows on it because I don’t feel confident in my ability to get it done correctly.
My question: Is it worth adding an SSD as a second drive just to make my programs load faster? [Read more…]
You might not be aware of this, but Facebook’s search feature is quite powerful and extremely thorough in the way it conducts its searches.
As a matter of fact, virtually every public post, comment and photo you have ever placed on Facebook will come up in another user’s search results unless you have your privacy settings configured to prevent it. [Read more…]
Question from Phyllis: Hi, Rick. I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I love the info you provide. Thank you!
In several of your posts you recommend running periodic malware scans with the free version of Malwarebytes.
I clicked the link you provided and downloaded it, but after the program was installed it said I have 14 days left in my free trial?
I know for a fact that I clicked the link to download the free version. Why did it install a trial version? [Read more…]
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Back in the golden age of technology, you really didn’t need all that many tools in order to build, upgrade or repair computers and many other tech items.
If you owned a couple of screwdrivers, an anti-static wrist strap and a nut driver or two you could work on most any tech item. But today, things are a lot more complicated.
The way modern computers, monitors and mobile devices are constructed makes it virtually impossible to work on some items without specialized tools that can “crack open” a case or extract a part without causing physical damage to the item. [Read more…]