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Question from Belinda G.: Rick, I need your help bad, but please don’t think I’m crazy after you read this!
I was checking my email with my 17 month old on my lap when she started tapping the keyboard. All of a sudden the entire screen image rotated 90 degrees to the right and I can’t figure out how to get it back to normal.
Please help??? I’m tired of having to lay on my side to read the screen! By the way, it’s a Dell desktop computer with Windows 10.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
When it comes to laptops these days, thin is in – as in the thinner the better!
The problem is, as laptops become thinner, sacrifices must often be made in terms of performance, features and connectivity.
With their new Spectre 13.3 Ultrabook, HP has managed to create one of the thinnest laptops ever without sacrificing much of anything at all! [Read more…]
Question from Lina W.: A while back my laptop updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on its own. I just woke up one morning and there it was!
It turns out that I like Windows 10 ok, but now I can’t get the screen to brighten up much at all.
I have the brightness setting turned all the way to maximum and it still isn’t as bright at it was with Windows 7.
How can I get my laptop’s brightness control to work as it should?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Did you dine at a Chipotle Mexican Grill any time between the dates of March 24 and April 18, 2017?
If so, you should know that your credit/debit card info might have been stolen by hackers.
Company officials reported earlier today that hackers installed malware on their payment systems that allowed them to steal customers’ credit/debit card data. [Read more…]
Scammers rarely miss an opportunity to take advantage of an innocent victim, and right now they’re using the recent WannaCry Ransomware attacks as a ruse to scam as many folks as possible.
To be sure, WannaCry is a very serious malware issue, but it’s important not to fall victim to the scams that are out there taking advantage of it right now.
The most common WannaCry related scam works something like this: [Read more…]