All Entries 2018 - Ask Leo!

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2018-12-31 How Do I Gain Access to My Deceased Relative’s Computer?
2018-12-28 Should I Use Facebook to Log In to Other Sites When Offered?
2018-12-27 “Chkdsk Cannot Run Because the Volume Is in Use by another Process” — What Does It Mean and How Do I Fix It?
2018-12-26 2018’s Most Popular Articles
2018-12-24 Can I Get Someone’s Name and Address from Their IP Address?
2018-12-21 Who Is the Administrator of my Home Network?
2018-12-20 What Is Pagefile.sys? Can I Delete It?
2018-12-19 Can I Copy Windows 10 System Files to Another Drive?
2018-12-17 This Is Why I Back Up
2018-12-14 How Do I Keep My Kids Safe from Internet Garbage?
2018-12-13 A Drive with All My Data is Showing as Unformatted — What Do I Do?
2018-12-12 How Can an Employer Recover Information I’ve Erased?
2018-12-10 If I Had to Do It Over…
2018-12-06 Coping with Windows 10
2018-12-05 The 40-year Take-away
2018-12-03 How Do I Unsubscribe from All These Unwanted Emails?
2018-11-30 Do All These Software Updates Take Up More and More Disk Space?
2018-11-29 How Do I Figure Out My Windows Edition?
2018-11-28 Use BitLocker to Bypass Potential Self-Encrypting Drive Vulnerabilities
2018-11-26 WHY IS EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET SO GRUMPY?
2018-11-23 Can I Reassign My Drive Letters?
2018-11-22 How Do I Fix Jagged Fonts in Windows 10?
2018-11-21 How Do I Stop Websites from Pestering Me About Notifications?
2018-11-19 Someone’s Sending from My Email Address! How Do I Stop Them?!
2018-11-16 Back Up Smartphone Photos Using OneDrive
2018-11-15 Using OneDrive for Nearly Continuous Backup
2018-11-09 Why Can’t I Undelete these Files?
2018-11-07 How Can I Use a Password Manager for My Security Questions?
2018-11-05 What Backup Program Should I Use?
2018-11-02 Don’t Lose Your Phone: Here’s What Can Happen (and How to Prepare)
2018-11-01 I Have Two Facebook Accounts, How Do I Delete Just One of Them?
2018-10-31 How Do I Change the Default Mail Program in Windows?
2018-10-26 Where Do Facebook Friend Suggestions Come From?
2018-10-23 How Do I View the List of BCC’ed Recipients on an Email I’ve Received?
2018-10-22 Why Is My Mail to this Person Not Getting Through?
2018-10-22 What’s a Screen Shot and How Do I Make One?
2018-10-19 What are the Pros and Cons of Web-based Email Over Desktop Email?
2018-10-19 Are Free Email Services Worth It?
2018-10-18 What’s an “Internal Server Error” and How Do I Fix It?
2018-10-17 What’s the Difference Between the Web and the Internet?
2018-10-12 Do I Need to Update My BIOS Regularly?
2018-10-11 Five Reasons I Went All-in with Dropbox
2018-10-10 Back Up Your Email Using Thunderbird
2018-10-05 Critical: Back Up Before the 1809 Windows 10 Update!
2018-10-05 Why Doesn’t My External Drive Appear When Plugged In?
2018-10-04 Is it Safe to Delete This File?
2018-10-03 Back Up Smartphone Photos Using Dropbox
2018-09-28 How Do I Upgrade Windows from 32-bit to 64-bit?
2018-09-27 BoxCryptor: Secure Your Data in the Cloud
2018-09-26 How Do I Send an Email that Can’t Be Traced Back to Me?
2018-09-20 Can I Tell If Something’s Been Pasted Instead of Typed?
2018-09-19 Can I Use a Charger that Provides the Same Voltage but a Different Amperage?
2018-09-14 Busting Some Facebook Myths
2018-09-13 Can My ISP See I’m Using a VPN?
2018-09-07 Can I Convert an External USB Hard Drive into an Internal One?
2018-09-05 Gmail’s Confidential Mode Isn’t
2018-08-31 How Can I Send a Document to Someone Securely?
2018-08-30 How Do I Remove My Personal Data from My Computer Running Windows 10?
2018-08-29 Where is Windows Defender’s Vault?
2018-08-24 What’s the Difference Between Hotmail.com, Msn.com, Live.com and Now Outlook.com?
2018-08-23 Is it Safe to Share My Internet Connection with My Neighbor?
2018-08-17 Why Does a Scan of a Simple Text Document Result in Such a Large File?
2018-08-16 Do “Fix All Your Windows Problems” Utilities Work?
2018-08-15 Your Router’s Two IP Addresses
2018-08-10 What Can a Website I Visit Tell About Me?
2018-08-09 How Do I Uninstall and Reinstall Internet Explorer in Windows 10?
2018-08-08 What External Drive Should I Get?
2018-08-03 Why Does My Network Not Work After Resuming from Standby?
2018-08-02 How Do I Get Rid of All this Spam?!?!
2018-08-01 How to (Accidentally) Give Someone Else Your PayPal Account
2018-07-29 How to Back Up a Machine that Won’t Boot
2018-07-27 Why I (Still) Don’t Like Challenge/Response Spam Blockers
2018-07-26 Does Getting Porn Spam Mean You’ve Been Surfing Porn Sites?
2018-07-25 Why Do Windows Updates Mess Up My Computer?
2018-07-20 Is it Safe to Install a Higher Wattage Power Supply in My Computer?
2018-07-19 The First Eight Things to Do with Your New Computer
2018-07-18 Why Do Things Disappear from the Clipboard When I Close a Program?
2018-07-13 Should I Cover Up My Webcam When I’m Not Using It?
2018-07-12 How Do I Create a Bootable USB Thumb Drive from an ISO?
2018-07-11 Can My ISP See What I’m Doing If I Use a Virtual Machine (VM)?
2018-07-05 Could Someone Set Up a Facebook Account in My Name?
2018-07-04 How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?
2018-06-29 Where’s the Recycle Bin on My USB Drive?
2018-06-28 How Do I Fix a Cyclic Redundancy Check Error When I Try to Copy a File?
2018-06-27 Why Does My IP Address Have a Bad Reputation? And What Do I Do?
2018-06-22 Should I Turn My Computer Off at Night?
2018-06-21 Why Doesn’t Blocking Email Senders Work?
2018-06-20 What’s a Relay Server?
2018-06-15 How Do I Clean Up After Windows Update?
2018-06-14 How Do I Print Pictures from Websites So They Look Good?
2018-06-13 How Can I Automatically Reply to Spammers To Tell Them to Stop?
2018-06-08 What Should I Do About the VPNFilter Router Exploit?
2018-06-07 Do I Need These Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables?
2018-06-06 How Do I Know if My Machine is Free of Malware?
2018-06-01 If Shutting Down Windows Cleanly Is So Important, What Happens When the Power Just Goes Out?
2018-05-31 Cryptomator: Encryption for Your Cloud Storage
2018-05-30 How to Best Back Up Your Encrypted Data
2018-05-25 What are Browser Cookies and How Are They Used?
2018-05-24 VeraCrypt: Free Open Source Industrial Strength Encryption
2018-05-18 Why Does My Microsoft Word Document Display Differently on Different Computers?
2018-05-17 How to Tell if Your Email, Computer, or Facebook Has Been Hacked
2018-05-16 Fixing Windows 7 Boot Problems
2018-05-11 How Could My Bank Account Have Been Hacked if I Have Good Security?
2018-05-09 What’s the Difference Between a Router, a Wireless Router, and a Wireless Access Point?
2018-05-04 Why Did Deleting a Desktop Icon Delete the Program?
2018-05-03 Why Can’t You Give a Straight Answer?
2018-05-02 Download Your Facebook and Google Data
2018-04-27 I Think I’ve Been “Phished”, What Should I Do?
2018-04-26 My Computer Has Started to Shut Down Randomly. Could it Be the Fan?
2018-04-25 How Do I View the Contents of My Hidden D: Drive?
2018-04-20 Is it Safe to Just Turn Off an External USB Drive Without “Safely Removing” First?
2018-04-18 Will a Hacked Website Leak My Email Address?
2018-04-13 Will a Scheduled Backup Wake My Machine Up If It’s Sleeping?
2018-04-11 What’s the Difference Between Hibernate and Sleep?
2018-04-06 How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?
2018-04-05 How Do Chrome and Chrome Relate?
2018-03-30 Is Online Document Conversion Safe?
2018-03-29 Do I Need All These Partitions?
2018-03-23 I Deleted a File by Mistake, Can I Get It Back?
2018-03-22 Networking Sucks
2018-03-21 My Mouse and Keyboard Stopped Working, but Work Elsewhere. How Do I Fix Them?
2018-03-16 Does Bounced Email Mean All the Recipients Didn’t Get My Message?
2018-03-15 How Should I Back Up My Computer Before an Operating System Upgrade or Reinstall?
2018-03-14 Why Does My Screen Go Black When My System is Out of RAM?
2018-03-09 What’s the Difference Between Windows 10 Home vs Pro Editions?
2018-03-08 Why Does My Email Sometimes Show Up with Funny Characters Like “=0D” In It?
2018-03-07 I’ve Lost All My Passwords, What Do I Do?
2018-03-02 How Long Does Email Delivery Take?
2018-03-01 How Do I Remove a Document Stuck in My Printer’s Queue?
2018-02-28 Why is Windows 10 Telling Me “There Is a Problem with Your Microsoft Account”?
2018-02-23 How Should I Encrypt the Data on My Laptop?
2018-02-22 How Do I Get the Windows 10 Creators Update 1709 to Install?
2018-02-21 How Do I Back Up My Outlook.com Email?
2018-02-16 Is Someone Trying to Hack My Facebook Account?
2018-02-14 Hard Disk Failure Is Imminent! What Do I Do?
2018-02-08 How Do Websites Store Passwords Securely?
2018-02-07 How Did I Get Advertising About the Contents of an Email?
2018-02-02 How Do I Disable Windows Updates in Windows 10 Home?
2018-02-01 What is POP? Or POP3? And what about IMAP and SMTP?
2018-01-31 How Do I Shut Down a Machine with No Display?
2018-01-26 What Recourse Do I Have If Someone Used My Credit Card Online?
2018-01-25 Why Does My Machine Take Forever to Shut Down?
2018-01-24 Are USB Ports Going Away?
2018-01-19 Can Video Chat Be Intercepted and Recorded?
2018-01-18 Making Things Look Bigger in Windows 10
2018-01-17 Why is Backing Up Your First Recommendation for Everything?
2018-01-13 Managing Brick Risk
2018-01-12 Can I Just Unplug My Computer to Shut It Down?
2018-01-11 What Is “Privilege Escalation” on a CPU?
2018-01-06 What Do I Need to Do About Spectre and Meltdown?
2018-01-05 Can My Computer Be Hacked If It’s Turned Off?
2018-01-04 Why is My System Slow If the CPU Is Mostly Idle?
2018-01-03 2017’s Most Popular Articles

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