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Question from Eleanor: My eyesight isn’t what it used to be Rick, and now that I have a new computer with Windows 10 I sometimes have trouble seeing the mouse pointer.
Years ago my daughter helped me increase the size of the mouse pointer on my old Windows 7 PC, but she’s no longer here to help me do it for Windows 10.
Can you tell me how to do it?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Calvin: I have two 8GB DDR4 RAM sticks in my computer. They are identical to one another in every way (I bought them a while back as a 16GB kit).
When I log into the BIOS it says one stick is running at 2400Mhz and the other one is running at 2133Mhz.
I’ve always heard that all the RAM sticks in a PC should operate at the same speed or your system might crash.
Question from Brian: I started writing a blog offering wood-working tips a while back, and I really enjoy it.
I also recently started using Constant Contact to send out an email newsletter for the blog.
My goal is to eventually start earning a living from the blog and newsletter combo.
Overall I’m pretty happy with Constant Contact but I have a question about something in the reports.
Do you often loan your Android phone to other people and worry that they might view your photos or access your online accounts while the phone is in their possession?
If so, you’ll be happy to know that most recent Android devices have a “Guest” account that will allow someone else to use the phone without having access to your photos or data.
All you need to do is switch the phone to the “Guest” account before handing it over to them. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Regular readers of this blog know that I really like Windows 10.
In my opinion, it’s the best version of Windows that Microsoft has ever produced (all things considered).
But that being said, there are a few major annoyances with Windows 10 that sometimes make me question my overall affection for it, and the same is true for its successor, Windows 11.
One of those annoyances is Microsoft’s clunky ‘Windows Update’ procedure for Windows. [Read more…]