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2020-12-31 How Do Cookies Work, and How Do I Delete Them?
2020-12-30 How Do I Decrypt Files Encrypted by Ransomware?

2020-12-28 How Do I Change the Browser Home Page in Windows 10? Take Control with Quick Instructions for Edge, Firefox, and Chrome
2020-12-25 What’s the Best Long-Term Storage Media?
2020-12-24 Grant Location Permission: Why You Should and When You Shouldn’t

2020-12-23 Why You’re Being Warned About Windows 10 End of Service and What to Do About It
2020-12-18 Can People Track My Email Address Location?
2020-12-16 What Do I Do About Adobe Flash End of Life in 2020?

2020-12-14 Why Are There So Many Internet Jerks?
2020-12-10 Are the Free Microsoft Office Alternatives for Windows 10 Any Good?
2020-12-09 Facebook Hacked? What You Need to Do NOW!

2020-12-07 Can I Tell If Someone Blocked My Texts and Email?
2020-12-04 Can I Trust Browser Extensions?
2020-12-03 Is it Safe to Allow Remote Access?

2020-12-02 How to Back Up Before a Windows Update
2020-11-30 What Backup Program Should I Use?
2020-11-25 How Do I Report a Bug in Windows?

2020-11-23 What Good Is an Image If I Can’t Restore an Old Backup to a New Computer?
2020-11-20 How Do I Find Out What Program Is Using All My CPU?
2020-11-19 What Recovery Email Address Should I Use?

2020-11-16 How Do I Copy Text from a Copy Protected Website?
2020-11-14 Why Is It So Important to Use Different Passwords for Everything?
2020-11-13 Less Common Reasons Your Computer May Slow Down

2020-11-12 Is it Safe to Delete Duplicate Files?
2020-11-11 Don’t Call Yourself Stupid
2020-11-09 How Do I Hack Someone’s Account? How Do I Hack My Own?

2020-11-06 Why is My Computer Slow After Startup?
2020-11-05 How Do I Delete Files From OneDrive, but Not My Computer?
2020-10-29 How Do I Use an Open Wi-Fi Hotspot Safely?

2020-10-28 Getting Rid of Bing in Windows Search
2020-10-26 Reboot or Power Down: Why Do So Many Tech Support Solutions Start with That?
2020-10-23 When Your Slow Internet Connection Makes Your Computer Look Slow

2020-10-22 How Do I Make Sure Windows Is Up to Date?
2020-10-19 Online Shopping: Just How Safe Is It?
2020-10-16 Could OneDrive Get Hacked? What You Really Need to Worry About

2020-10-15 Yes, Your Security Software Might Slow Down Your Computer – What to Do About It
2020-10-14 How to Remove PUPs and Other Unexpected Things From Your Computer
2020-10-12 What Can I Disable in Task Manager’s Startup List?

2020-10-09 My Solution to Social Media Overload
2020-10-09 Avoiding or Fixing Software Rot in Windows 10
2020-10-08 Email Headers Revealed and How They Might Help You

2020-10-05 Why Don’t You Back Up Your Computer?
2020-10-02 Are You Asking Too Much of Your Computer?
2020-10-01 How Do I Force Windows to Reinstall a Driver?

2020-09-29 Fix Printer Problems with an Uninstall and Reinstall in Windows 10
2020-09-28 Resist Those Dancing Bunnies
2020-09-25 Do I Need a Firewall for My Home Network?

2020-09-24 Computer Slow? You Might Not Have Enough RAM for Windows
2020-09-18 Another Reason Your Computer Might Be Slow: Prevention, Presence, or Removal of Malware
2020-09-17 Five Reasons Ransomware Will Be Around for a Long Time

2020-09-09 Free Microsoft Office in Windows 10? Sort Of
2020-09-07 Do I Need All These Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables?
2020-09-04 “Do You Want to Scan and Fix” a Removable Drive?

2020-09-03 Can I Delete Setup Files I’ve Downloaded?
2020-08-31 How to Avoid Ransomware
2020-08-28 How Do I Get Rid of Gmail Tabs? How to Regain Control and Find the Email Gmail Might Be Hiding From You

2020-08-26 My Shift Key is Stuck. How Do I Unstick It?
2020-08-21 How Do I Bypass Keyloggers? The Guaranteed Way to Avoid Having Your Keystrokes Maliciously Recorded
2020-08-20 Has My Computer Been Hacked? A List of Clues and Steps to Take

2020-08-19 Should I Use FAT32 or NTFS on a Flash Drive? The Differences, and a Third Alternative
2020-08-17 Why Do I Get Spam Not Addressed to Me? How Spammers Do It, and What Steps You Can Take
2020-08-14 How Do I Run a Full Scan Using Windows Defender (aka Windows Security)? Five Clicks, and When to Do It

2020-08-10 What Can People Tell from My IP Address?
2020-08-07 My Computer Does Nothing When Turned On; How Do I Fix It? Something to Look at, and Something to Listen To
2020-08-03 Why Am I Not Getting the Email Newsletter I Signed Up For? Three Steps to Improve the Situation

2020-08-02 An Overview of Gmail – Ask Leo! Live
2020-07-31 What If I Lose My Second Factor?
2020-07-29 What is Defragging and Do I Need It In Windows?

2020-07-24 Avoiding Windows 10 Update Restarts at Inopportune Times – Simple Solutions Avoiding Hacks
2020-07-23 What Is SupportAssist and Should I Let It Run?
2020-07-20 How Do You Delete Things from the Internet?

2020-07-17 Can I Recover Deleted Emails in Gmail I Deleted Three Years Ago?
2020-07-16 Why Might Wi-Fi Be Faster than Ethernet?
2020-07-15 Why Can’t Online Services Tell Me My Password?

2020-07-13 Could Someone Reopen My Closed Email Account?
2020-07-12 Password Vaults and LastPass – Ask Leo! Live
2020-07-10 How to Protect Data on a Laptop

2020-07-09 “This Device Is Working Properly” – When Device Manager Lies, and What to Do Instead
2020-07-08 What Laptop Would You Buy for $1500? My Choice, and My Recommendation for You
2020-07-06 Are You Ready for Your Computer to be Stolen?

2020-07-03 Why is My Wi-Fi Speed Slower than Ethernet?
2020-07-02 How To Get the Latest Windows 10 Update
2020-06-29 Using Disk Cleanup in Windows 10

2020-06-26 Can My Work Spy on My Home Computer?
2020-06-25 Why Is My Laptop Running Slower When It’s on Battery?
2020-06-24 What’s the Difference Between Windows Defender, Windows Security, and Microsoft Security Essentials?

2020-06-22 Where Do I Get Driver Updates?
2020-06-19 Am I Too Old to Start a Career in IT?
2020-06-17 What to Do With an Old Computer You’ve Been Given – What I Did With Mine

2020-06-13 Who’s Trying to Change My Password?
2020-06-11 Microsoft Account Recovery Code
2020-06-08 What’s the Best Registry Cleaner? What to Use and Not

2020-06-07 Changes to the Ask Leo! Podcast
2020-06-06 Survey Results & More – Ask Leo! Live
2020-06-06 What’s a “Zero-Day” Attack? A Diagram of the Vulnerability Timeline

2020-06-05 Why a Chromebook?
2020-06-04 Will My Email Be There If I Reactivate a Deleted Account? Don’t Count On It
2020-06-03 Diagnosing a Slow-loading Webpage with Firefox

2020-06-01 How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System? Five Steps to Get as Close as You Can
2020-05-30 How Do I Correct My Microsoft Account (Outlook.com) Time Zone?
2020-05-29 How Do I Copy a Webpage?

2020-05-28 What Should I Do When My Information Is Involved in a Breach?
2020-05-27 How Do I Stop Email from Going to Junk in Outlook.com?
2020-05-25 How Do I Gain Administrative Access to a Second-hand Computer?

2020-05-22 Five Steps to Repair Windows 10 Without Losing Programs
2020-05-21 Can My ISP See I’m Using a VPN or a Proxy?
2020-05-20 How Do I Print an Email in Black Instead of Gray in Outlook.com?

2020-05-18 What are the Internet’s Rules about Free Speech?
2020-05-15 How Do I Get Rid of Bing?
2020-05-14 Can My Workplace See What Else I Do When I Work from Home?

2020-05-13 How Do I Run a Program “As Administrator”?
2020-05-08 How Important Is It to Seek Out and Take Updates?
2020-05-07 Why Didn’t Windows Fix My Pet Peeve?

2020-05-06 Are Human Relations Skills Important in Tech?
2020-05-04 The Most Important Skill
2020-05-02 Filters in Gmail and Outlook.com – Ask Leo! Live

2020-05-02 Five Steps to Better Security Working from Home
2020-05-01 Add an Account to the Microsoft Mail Program
2020-04-30 How Can I Make an Income Working Online?

2020-04-29 How Do I Keep Outlook.com from Locking Me Out When I Travel?
2020-04-27 Are HTTPS Connections Really Safe?
2020-04-25 Setting Up Two-Factor Authentication — Ask Leo! Live

2020-04-25 Can Your Video Chat Be Intercepted and Recorded?
2020-04-22 Searching for a Technical Support Support Phone Number? Avoid This Huge Trap
2020-04-20 How Does a VPN Protect Me?

2020-04-18 Playing With Partitions — Ask Leo! Live
2020-04-17 How Do I Leave Services I Didn’t Request?
2020-04-16 How Do I Tell If My Computer Meets Windows 10 Minimum Requirements?

2020-04-15 How Do I Find the DNS Server Used By My PC?
2020-04-13 I Deleted a File by Mistake. Can I Get It Back?
2020-04-11 Refreshing Windows 10 Without a Reinstall or Reset

2020-04-11 Can Malware Survive If I Reset My PC?
2020-04-10 How Often Is Windows 10 Updated?
2020-04-09 How Do I Remove a BIOS or UEFI Password?

2020-04-08 How Hard Is It to Learn Programming?
2020-04-06 “From” Spoofing: How Spammers Send Email that Looks Like It Came from You
2020-04-04 Installing Edge and LastPass – Ask Leo! Live

2020-04-03 Customizing Windows 10 – Ask Leo! Live
2020-04-03 How Can a PIN Be as Secure as a Password?
2020-04-01 Can I Back Up to an Internal Drive?

2020-03-30 How Do I Choose a Good Password?
2020-03-29 Reset This PC — Ask Leo! Live
2020-03-27 How Do YOU Back Up, Leo?

2020-03-26 Can the Owner of an Open WiFi Hotspot See What Files I’m Downloading?
2020-03-25 Why Does Malware Exist?
2020-03-21 Setting Up Macrium Reflect Free (Webinar #2)

2020-03-21 How Much Can I Trust Information on the Internet?
2020-03-19 Why Doesn’t My Internet Speed Match What I’m Paying For?
2020-03-18 How Can an Https Website Still Not Be Secure?

2020-03-13 Can a Thumb Drive Carry Malware?
2020-03-12 Why Does Email I Send Fail But a Reply Works?
2020-03-09 Creating a Backup Image Using Windows’ Built-in Backup

2020-03-07 Sending Text Messages Using Your Computer
2020-03-05 Webinar Replay: Backing Up in Windows 10 and Ask Leo! Anything
2020-03-05 Picking Up and Setting Up My New Desktop

2020-03-04 A Recent Update Prevents Me from Booting. How Do I Fix It?
2020-02-29 How Do I Completely Uninstall a Program?
2020-02-28 Edge Redeemed
2020-02-26 Designing My New Desktop
2020-02-21 Does Emptying Trash in Email Keep Others from Seeing My Deleted Email?
2020-02-20 The Results of My Year-Long Laptop Experiment
2020-02-19 View Your Saved Passwords in Google Chrome
2020-02-15 Do All These Software Updates Take Up More and More Disk Space?
2020-02-14 Focus Better with Multiple Desktops
2020-02-08 How Windows 10 Changed Setting Default Programs
2020-02-07 Diagnosing Web Pages with Inspect
2020-02-05 Why Don’t Pictures Show When I Visit Some Websites?
2020-01-31 Why Is the Same File in Two or More Places on My Machine?
2020-01-30 Why Can’t I Connect with a 169.254 IP Address?
2020-01-29 Are Updates Free?
2020-01-24 OK, Boomer: Why Computer Literacy Matters to You
2020-01-23 Can I Install Windows 7 on a Machine that Comes with Windows 10?
2020-01-22 Does Installing Many Programs Destabilize My Computer?
2020-01-18 How To Keep Using Windows 7 Safely After Support Ends
2020-01-17 How Do I Restore a Backup Image to a Smaller Drive?
2020-01-16 Why Are There No Objective Review Sites?
2020-01-15 How Do I Know What Updates to Install?
2020-01-13 How Do I Remove Myself from a Machine?
2020-01-11 Will My Old Computer Run Windows 10?
2020-01-10 Why I Bought My Wife a Mac (Updated)
2020-01-03 What is Bandwidth as It Applies to My Computer?
2020-01-02 How Do I Find the IP Address of an Email’s Sender?

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