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Question from Aaron: I recently started shopping for a new desktop PC to replace my beloved Gateway that served me well for over a decade until it got destroyed by lightning.
I was looking at HPs and Dells and noticed something that’s a little confusing to me. Maybe you can clear it up.
Question from Karla: Hi, Rick. I hope you can give me some advice about “reviving” an old laptop.
What I have is an older laptop that had Windows on it before the hard drive died.
I bought a new Windows 10 machine but I’d like to replace the bad hard drive in the old laptop and experiment with a different operating system.
I read your post about installing Linux in place of Windows but I’ve been reading a lot about Chromebooks lately. I stopped by Best Buy yesterday and tried one out, and I really like it.
My question is can I install Chrome OS on my laptop and use it as a Chromebook?
Question from Kellie: Right now we have a DSL Internet from our local phone company.
It was pretty good when they first installed it, but it’s been terrible for the past year.
We’re wanting to switch to something else because my download speeds are averaging less than 2Mbps and they refuse to do anything to make it faster.
We really need the higher speed because our family does a lot of video streaming (or at least we try to).
Sometimes the Internet stops working at all and stays out for days at a time. I’d sign up for cable Internet but it’s not available in my area.
I’m hoping you can clear something up for me. [Read more…]
Question from Keith: I updated my Windows 7 computer to Windows 10 a while back, and like a dummy I didn’t write down the license key for it.
The hard drive in this machine went bad and I replaced it with a 1TB SSD. The bad drive appears to be completely dead because it doesn’t make any noise at all.
I have already installed the SSD I and downloaded the Windows 10 files onto a thumb drive with the instructions they provided.
The thing is, I’ll need the license key to activate Windows 10 after I install it, right? [Read more…]
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