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2025-12-31 Help! Someone Is Inside My Computer, Controlling It!
2025-12-31 Tip of the Day: Make CTRL+A / CTRL+C a Habit When Typing an Online Form
2025-12-30 Tip of the Day: Save Downloaded Programs
2025-12-29 What’s a QR Code, and Can You Trust Them?
2025-12-27 Privacy and Searching for Phone Numbers Online
2025-12-26 Tip of the Day: Don’t Clear Cookies
2025-12-26 How Do I Tell If an Email Address Is Fake?
2025-12-25 How to Deal with Spam
2025-12-24 Four Risks With Free Wi-Fi
2025-12-24 Tip of the Day: Avoid Periods in Email Addresses
2025-12-23 Tip of the Day: Use Your Password Vault as Bookmarks
2025-12-22 Tip of the Day: You Don’t Always Need an Account
2025-12-22 Backups Are GREAT Security
2025-12-20 What to Do When Your Outlook.com Storage Is Full
2025-12-19 Will Google Delete Inactive Accounts?
2025-12-19 Tip of the Day: Don’t Reply to “Don’t Reply” Emails
2025-12-18 Backing Up a New Computer
2025-12-18 Tip of the Day: Sign In Occasionally
2025-12-17 Tip of the Day: Always Display Scrollbars
2025-12-17 7 Ways to Increase Internet Speed in Windows
2025-12-16 Tip of the Day: Don’t Get Attached to Your Password
2025-12-15 Tip of the Day: Drag and Drop to Your Browser’s Bookmarks Bar
2025-12-15 Why I Rarely Panic
2025-12-13 Three Reasons You Can’t Get Your Account Back
2025-12-12 Do I Really Need a Recovery Email?
2025-12-12 Tip of the Day: Remember the Second Most Popular Search Engine
2025-12-11 Two Reasons to NOT Reuse Passwords
2025-12-11 Tip of the Day: Click-Hold-Move: an Irritation and a Solution
2025-12-10 Tip of the Day: Answer the Question(s)
2025-12-10 Are You Afraid of Tracking Cookies
2025-12-08 Tip of the Day: Keep a Wired Mouse and Keyboard
2025-12-08 What Happens When Applications Die?
2025-12-06 How Do I Print Pictures From Websites so They Look Good?
2025-12-05 Do Complex Passwords Still Matter If You Use 2FA Everywhere?
2025-12-05 Tip of the Day: Use Slmgr to View Your Windows License
2025-12-04 Tip of the Day: Remember Your Password
2025-12-04 Did Microsoft Lie About Windows 10?
2025-12-03 Tip of the Day: Show the Desktop with a Click
2025-12-03 UniGetUI – Keep (Almost) All Your Apps Up to Date Automatically
2025-12-02 Tip of the Day: Help and More
2025-12-01 Tip of the Day: There’s Nothing Special About Keyloggers
2025-12-01 Should I Use RAID for Backup?
2025-11-29 The Wrong Way to Change Your Email Address
2025-11-28 Tip of the Day: Consider Speech Recognition and Speech-to-Text
2025-11-28 Can I Delete Pagefile.sys?
2025-11-27 Tip of the Day: Opt Out of Backup
2025-11-27 How to Back Up Outlook.com Email
2025-11-26 Scammers’ Three Common Lies
2025-11-26 Tip of the Day: Asking for Money Is Not Demanding Money
2025-11-25 Tip of the Day: When in Doubt, Ask Someone Else
2025-11-24 Tip of the Day: Trivia: How One Website Could Be Four Different Websites
2025-11-24 “From” Spoofing: How Spammers Send Email That Looks Like It Came From You
2025-11-22 Why I Cringe When I Hear People Are Using ChatGPT to Look Things Up
2025-11-21 Tip of the Day: Save the Installation Media
2025-11-21 Does Whole-disk Encryption Impact Computer Performance?
2025-11-20 Should I Buy My Next Computer in Person or Online?
2025-11-20 Tip of the Day: Always Choose Custom Install (and Then Pay Attention)
2025-11-19 Tip of the Day: Keep the Originals
2025-11-19 My Two New PCs
2025-11-18 Tip of the Day: Have a Code Word
2025-11-17 Tip of the Day: Mark Spam as Spam and Move On
2025-11-17 Why Don’t Anti-Malware Tools Work Better?
2025-11-15 I’ve Lost My Password Vault. What Do I Do?
2025-11-14 Tip of the Day: Read What’s On the Screen, PLEASE!
2025-11-14 How Do I Send an Email to Many People?
2025-11-13 Gmail Is Removing “Check Mail From Other Accounts”
2025-11-13 Tip of the Day: RAID Disk Formats Are Proprietary
2025-11-12 What Happens If I Don’t Update to Windows 11?
2025-11-12 Tip of the Day: Don’t Trust AI
2025-11-11 Tip of the Day: Updates (and Reboots) on Your Schedule
2025-11-10 Tip of the Day: Try Another Computer
2025-11-10 Why Do System Cleanup Utilities Report So Many Errors on a Supposedly Clean System?
2025-11-08 How Do I Boot If All I Get Is a Blue Screen?
2025-11-07 What Are Those Numbers Labeled MD5, SHA, Etc., Listed With Downloads?
2025-11-07 Tip of the Day: Play with Windows File Explorer Views
2025-11-06 Tip of the Day: Remember, It’s Your Company’s Equipment
2025-11-06 Command Prompt? Power Shell? Terminal? What’s the Difference? Which Do I Want?
2025-11-05 How What I Do Is Threatened by AI
2025-11-05 Tip of the Day: Keep Your Browser Up To Date
2025-11-04 Tip of the Day: Remember Modify in Add/Remove Programs
2025-11-03 Tip of the Day: Plan for Your Death
2025-11-03 Replying to Spammers to Tell Them to Stop
2025-11-01 Can I Back Up Files to a Separate Partition on the Same Hard Disk?
2025-10-31 How Do Websites Store Passwords Securely?
2025-10-31 Tip of the Day: Reboot Your Router
2025-10-30 Tip of the Day: Ignore Old Accounts
2025-10-30 Still Another Way to Install Windows 11 With Only a Local Account
2025-10-29 How Often Should I Reset My PC?
2025-10-29 Tip of the Day: Remove and Re-Add Your Printer
2025-10-28 Tip of the Day: Whole Drive Encryption Only Protects When a Disk is Not Mounted
2025-10-27 Tip of the Day: Whoever Provides Your Internet Is Your Internet Provider
2025-10-27 What Are the Internet’s Rules About Free Speech?
2025-10-25 Can the Owner of an Open WiFi Hotspot See What Files I’m Downloading?
2025-10-24 Are VPNs Safe for Online Banking?
2025-10-24 Tip of the Day: Use FAT for Thumb Drives
2025-10-23 Tip of the Day: Treat Email Like a Postcard
2025-10-23 USB Charging and Cables Explained: Safe and Simple
2025-10-22 Tip of the Day: Don’t Share Contacts
2025-10-22 Can My Computer or Signed-In Account Be Hacked from the Internet?
2025-10-21 Tip of the Day: Check All Your Two-Factor Options Before Giving Up
2025-10-20 Tip of the Day: Reboot Again After an Unexpected Shutdown
2025-10-20 Why Am I Being Labeled a Spammer?
2025-10-18 Do I Need to Make a New Rescue Disc Every Time My Backup Software Updates?
2025-10-17 How to Recover Deleted Data from Your Disk — Maybe
2025-10-17 Tip of the Day: Never Search for “Support”
2025-10-16 Tip of the Day: Know What to Encrypt in the Cloud
2025-10-16 How Do I Fix the Master Boot Record (MBR)?
2025-10-15 I Opened Something I Shouldn’t Have — Now What?
2025-10-14 Tip of the Day: Bite the Bullet and Upgrade
2025-10-13 Tip of the Day: Check the Time Zone in Your Online Accounts
2025-10-13 What’s the Difference Between an Email Account, an Email Address, an Email Program, and an Email Service?
2025-10-11 Windows Security to 2028? Why ESU Still Costs Extra
2025-10-10 Tip of the Day: Support Free Software (If You Can)
2025-10-10 How Do I Encrypt a Disk?
2025-10-09 Tip of the Day: Check Out the Free Version
2025-10-09 Is Syncing Passkeys Across Devices Safe?
2025-10-08 Tip of the Day: Ignore the Event Viewer
2025-10-08 Public or Private? Picking and Changing the Windows Network Setting
2025-10-07 Tip of the Day: Move Closer
2025-10-06 Can I Tell If Email I Sent Has Been Read by the Recipient?
2025-10-06 Tip of the Day: Make a Backup Image of Your New Machine as Soon as Possible
2025-10-04 Why Is the Same File a Different Size in Different Places?
2025-10-03 Tip of the Day: Don’t Attach; Share Instead
2025-10-03 How Do I Encrypt a Folder?
2025-10-02 Tip of the Day: Understand What “Free Download” Really Means
2025-10-02 How Do I Stop Email from Going to Junk in Outlook.com?
2025-10-01 Tip of the Day: Prefer “docx” Over “doc”
2025-10-01 Should I Update to Windows 11? (October 2025 update)
2025-09-30 Tip of the Day: Sometimes Replacement Makes More Sense
2025-09-29 Tip of the Day: Never Reply to Spam
2025-09-29 Why Is My Machine Slowing Down?
2025-09-27 Why CAPTCHA?
2025-09-26 How Do I Encrypt a File?
2025-09-26 Tip of the Day: Try Not to Cancel Installs
2025-09-25 Tip of the Day: Use Local Folders to Avoid Email Loss
2025-09-25 Process Explorer, a Powerful Free Replacement for Task Manager
2025-09-24 Tip of the Day: Leave Small Partitions Be
2025-09-24 How to Keep Using Windows 10 Safely after Support Ends
2025-09-23 Tip of the Day: “Remember Me” with Caution
2025-09-22 Tip of the Day: Back Up Before CHKDSK
2025-09-22 How Do I Get an Email Address for Life?
2025-09-20 When I Use Start-Run, Why Does a Window Just Flash and Disappear?
2025-09-19 Tip of the Day: Use Two-Factor Authentication, Already
2025-09-19 7 Reasons You Could Lose Your Google Account Forever
2025-09-18 Why Can’t You Give a Straight Answer?
2025-09-18 Tip of the Day: Keep Your Backup Drive Full
2025-09-17 On Trusting and Not Trusting Microsoft
2025-09-17 Tip of the Day: Don’t Bother Blocking Senders
2025-09-16 Tip of the Day: Confirm Your Time Zone
2025-09-15 How Does a VPN Protect Me?
2025-09-15 Tip of the Day: Try Another USB Port
2025-09-13 Where’s My Disk Space Going?
2025-09-12 Tip of the Day: Windows Remembers Size and Position (Mostly)
2025-09-12 Can I Tell If Something’s Been Pasted Instead of Typed?
2025-09-11 Can Your Video Chat Be Intercepted and Recorded?
2025-09-11 Tip of the Day: Configure an Email Program (Even if You Don’t Use One)
2025-09-10 Should I Just Use AI for Searching?
2025-09-10 Tip of the Day: Run CHKDSK Periodically
2025-09-09 Tip of the Day: You Can’t Rely on Damage Assessment
2025-09-08 How Do I Remove Myself From a Computer?
2025-09-08 Tip of the Day: Pause Cloud Sync
2025-09-06 Can Malware Survive If I Reset My PC?
2025-09-05 Tip of the Day: Get a PIN Before You Go
2025-09-05 Why Am I Getting Bounces for Email I Didn’t Send?
2025-09-04 Tip of the Day: Check for Updates to Get the Latest
2025-09-04 Are Deleted Files also Deleted from Backups?
2025-09-03 What Is the “Normal” File Hierarchy in Windows?
2025-09-03 Tip of the Day: Single Click to Open
2025-09-02 Tip of the Day: Search for Man
2025-09-01 Tip of the Day: Share What You Learn
2025-09-01 What Security Software Do You Recommend? (2025 Q3 update)
2025-08-30 Why Does Email I Send Fail But a Reply Works?
2025-08-29 Tip of the Day: the History in the Back Button
2025-08-29 Does Installing Lots of Programs Really Mess Up Your PC?
2025-08-28 How to Safely Change Two-factor Authentication
2025-08-27 Tip of the Day: Play a Sound for Caps Lock
2025-08-27 How to Transfer Your Email From a PST to Thunderbird for Free
2025-08-25 Tip of the Day: Don’t Answer the Phone
2025-08-25 Can’t I Just Copy Everything to Back Up?
2025-08-23 No Extension? No Problem: How to Identify Almost Any File Type
2025-08-22 Tip of the Day: Back Up and Then Delete Windows.old
2025-08-22 Why Doesn’t Someone Simplify Computers For Seniors?
2025-08-21 Should I Still Avoid Standard Folders If I’m Not Using OneDrive?
2025-08-21 Tip of the Day: Visit (and Clean) the Temp Folder in Windows Command Prompt
2025-08-20 Tip of the Day: Open Command Prompt in File Explorer’s Displayed Folder
2025-08-20 How to Save or Recover Your BitLocker Recovery Key
2025-08-19 Tip of the Day: You’re Responsible
2025-08-18 Tip of the Day: View Keyboard Shortcuts on Menus
2025-08-18 Are There Hidden Files that Save Every Keystroke I’ve Ever Typed?
2025-08-16 Prepare to Lose Your Phone
2025-08-15 Why Do We Suddenly Need AI?
2025-08-15 Tip of the Day: List ALL the Accounts on Your Machine
2025-08-14 Do I Need a Spare Computer?
2025-08-14 Tip of the Day: A Shortcut to Lock Your Computer
2025-08-13 Tip of the Day: CTRL+ESC for the Start Menu
2025-08-13 Is It OK to Reuse Passwords on “Unimportant” Sites?
2025-08-12 Tip of the Day: Get the Windows Version Quickly
2025-08-11 Is Copyright Still an Issue If Something’s Not Available Anywhere?
2025-08-09 Two-Factor Might Be Hackable. USE IT ANYWAY!
2025-08-08 Tip of the Day: Plan for the Worst
2025-08-08 Where Should I Put .EXE Files?
2025-08-07 Tip of the Day: Back Up Your Password Vault
2025-08-07 What’s the Difference Between Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365?
2025-08-06 Tip of the Day: the Free-Space Wiper You Already Have
2025-08-06 Faking Reality: How AI Images Are Being Used to Scam You
2025-08-05 Tip of the Day: Wi-Fi Speed Is Often Irrelevant
2025-08-04 Do I Need a New Email Address if Mine Is Involved in a Breach?
2025-08-04 Tip of the Day: Turn It On and Walk Away for a While
2025-08-02 How to Protect Your Cloud Storage and Backups from Ransomware
2025-08-01 Too Old for Tech? Nonsense.
2025-07-31 Romance Scams: When Loneliness Makes Us Vulnerable
2025-07-31 Tip of the Day: Have More Than One Recovery Method
2025-07-30 Changes for Ask Leo!
2025-07-30 Tip of the Day: Avoid Secret Questions
2025-07-29 Tip of the Day: Scan Those Old Photos
2025-07-28 Who Polices Misleading Advertising?
2025-07-28 Tip of the Day: Use Fewer Browser Extensions
2025-07-25 Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to the Entire Error Message
2025-07-25 Why Disabling Remote Access Doesn’t, and What to Do Instead
2025-07-25 How Can an Employer Recover Information I’ve Erased?
2025-07-24 Why Does Edge Have So Many Processes?
2025-07-24 Tip of the Day: Check Your Passwords for Hacks
2025-07-23 Tip of the Day: Drag and Drop a Shortcut to Your Desktop
2025-07-23 A Hacker’s Four Favorite Ways to Get You
2025-07-22 Tip of the Day: Use AI for Whois
2025-07-21 How Can I Tell If a Website Is Safe?
2025-07-21 Tip of the Day: Don’t Delete; Archive Email
2025-07-19 Why Must I Re-Enter my Email to Unsubscribe?
2025-07-18 What Happens When You Close an Email Account?
2025-07-18 Tip of the Day: Save the Originals
2025-07-17 Tip of the Day: Don’t Focus on Ransomware
2025-07-17 How to Limit File History Disk Usage
2025-07-16 How to Block the Windows 11 Upgrade and Stay on Windows 10
2025-07-16 Tip of the Day: Mark Non-Spam as Not Spam
2025-07-15 Tip of the Day: Don’t Re-Type That URL
2025-07-14 Tip of the Day: Photograph or Scan Important Documents
2025-07-14 What Should I Do About the Latest Breach?
2025-07-12 Searching for a Technical Support Support Phone Number? Avoid This Huge Trap
2025-07-11 Tip of the Day: Automate Your Backups
2025-07-11 How Do I Convert a GPT Disk to MBR?
2025-07-11 Could Someone Reopen My Closed Email Account?
2025-07-10 Tip of the Day: Try the Manufacturer’s Support First
2025-07-10 How to Share Two-Factor With Another Person
2025-07-09 Should You Sign Up for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10?
2025-07-09 Tip of the Day: Get Rid of Gmail Inbox Tabs
2025-07-08 Tip of the Day: Set Another Admin for Your Facebook Page
2025-07-07 Tip of the Day: “It Won’t Happen To Me” Is Bad Security
2025-07-05 How to Run a Full Scan Using Windows Security
2025-07-04 Don’t Rely on the Padlock: What the Lock Icon in Your Browser Really Means
2025-07-04 Tip of the Day: MSINFO32 Built-in System Information
2025-07-03 Tip of the Day: Install the Manufacturer’s Software
2025-07-03 Does Getting Bounces to Email I Didn’t Send Mean I’ve Been Hacked?
2025-07-02 Two-Factor Authentication: It’s Not as Complicated as You Think
2025-07-02 Tip of the Day: To Sleep or Not to Sleep
2025-07-02 Tip of the Day: Recent Files
2025-07-01 Tip of the Day: Emergency Restart
2025-06-30 How to Get Data Off a Hard Drive in a Dead Computer
2025-06-30 Tip of the Day: Know Where Your Files Are
2025-06-28 Core vs. Logical Processors: What Really Powers Your CPU?
2025-06-27 What Happens If You Click a Bad Link?
2025-06-27 Tip of the Day: Turn On (or Off) Password After Sleep or Screensaver
2025-06-26 How to Extract Text with Text Extractor
2025-06-26 Tip of the Day: The %USERNAME% Environment Variable
2025-06-25 Tip of the Day: Quick Access to the Sound Output Switcher
2025-06-25 Where Are My OneDrive Files?
2025-06-24 Tip of the Day: Think of AI As a Guide, Not the Source
2025-06-23 Tip of the Day: Adjust the Size of the Recycle Bin
2025-06-23 I Run Security Software. Why Do I Still Sometimes Get Infected?
2025-06-21 What Is the Clipboard? Where Is the Clipboard?
2025-06-20 Tip of the Day: Send PDF Instead of Docx
2025-06-20 All the “Ishings” Trying to Scam You
2025-06-19 Why Do You Have Two Different Backup Program Recommendations?
2025-06-19 Tip of the Day: Long Pressing on Mobile
2025-06-18 My OneDrive-free Experiment
2025-06-18 Tip of the Day: Scammers Love Tariffs
2025-06-17 Tip of the Day: Your Onedrive.com Files Are in My Files
2025-06-16 Tip of the Day: AlternativeTo.net
2025-06-14 How Do I Remove a BIOS or UEFI Password?
2025-06-13 Fix Printer Problems with an Uninstall and Reinstall
2025-06-13 Tip of the Day: Type the URL or Use a Bookmark
2025-06-12 Tip of the Day: Consider a BIOS/UEFI Password
2025-06-12 How Big a Backup Disk Do I Need?
2025-06-11 Why I Don’t Expect a Windows 10 Apocalypse
2025-06-10 Tip of the Day: It’s the Left Button
2025-06-09 Size Matters! (When It Comes to Passwords)
2025-06-09 Tip of the Day: Keep a Spare USB Keyboard
2025-06-07 How to Copy Text From Images
2025-06-06 Passkeys and Hardware Keys
2025-06-06 Windows 12?
2025-06-06 Tip of the Day: Try Print to PDF
2025-06-05 Tip of the Day: Create a Shortcut to a Folder
2025-06-04 Tip of the Day: Beware the “Epidemic of Fraud”
2025-06-04 What Is a Passkey?
2025-06-03 Tip of the Day: Erase Your Car
2025-06-02 How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System?
2025-05-31 Is Internet Provided by My Landlord Safe?
2025-05-30 How to Hover Over a Link to Check It’s Not a Scam
2025-05-30 Tip of the Day: Erase a Disk Quickly
2025-05-29 Tip of the Day: Don’t Fall for Satire or AI
2025-05-29 The Big One Is Coming. Are You Tech-Ready?
2025-05-28 How End-to-End Encryption Protects Your Messages and Where It Fails
2025-05-28 Tip of the Day: Store Your Vault Password in Your Password Vault
2025-05-27 Tip of the Day: Understand Subdomains
2025-05-26 CHKDSK: What Is It and How Do I Run It?
2025-05-26 Tip of the Day: Prepare for Not Being Available
2025-05-24 Many Ways Your Account Can Be Hacked and What to Do About It
2025-05-23 Tip of the Day: Reduce the Number of Extensions
2025-05-23 The Curious History of A:, B:, and Why C: Rules the PC
2025-05-22 Can You Really Know Your PC Is Clean and Malware-Free?
2025-05-22 Tip of the Day: Periodically Check Installed Programs
2025-05-21 Tip of the Day: DO NOT Back Up your PC
2025-05-21 Should You Leave Your Backup Drive Plugged In? The Real Risk
2025-05-20 Tip of the Day: Have a Backup Sign-in Account
2025-05-19 The Event Viewer, Explained
2025-05-19 Tip of the Day: Disable Startup Items Carefully
2025-05-17 My (Not So) Favorite Question
2025-05-16 Can AI Block Spam?
2025-05-16 Tip of the Day: Use the Same Account on All Machines
2025-05-15 Passkeys Are Never the Only Way In
2025-05-15 Tip of the Day: Dropbox’s “dl=” Parameter
2025-05-14 Start11: Another Start Menu Replacement
2025-05-14 Tip of the Day: Link to a Specific Place in a Webpage
2025-05-13 Tip of the Day: Generalize
2025-05-12 Tip of the Day: Reopen a Closed Tab
2025-05-12 Extend Your Wi-Fi: Simple Fixes for Better Home Coverage
2025-05-09 Tip of the Day: Use Dropbox to Copy Files
2025-05-09 Windows 11 Home vs. Pro: What’s the Difference, and Is It Worth It?
2025-05-08 Tip of the Day: Don’t Bail on a Single Failure
2025-05-08 How Important Is a Clean Uninstall?
2025-05-07 Tip of the Day: How to Navigate File Explorer’s Left Pane With the Keyboard
2025-05-07 Avoiding Scams: Why Hackers Can’t Recover Your Gmail for You
2025-05-06 Tip of the Day: Use Both Online and Offline Backups
2025-05-05 Tip of the Day: Disabling Remote Access Doesn’t
2025-05-05 What Backup Program Should I Use?
2025-05-04 YouTube Video Notes
2025-05-04 Article Writing Checklist
2025-05-03 How Do I Remove Myself From the Search Engines?
2025-05-02 The Enduring Myth of Annual Subscriptions to Windows
2025-05-02 Tip of the Day: Yet Another Way to Open Control Panel
2025-05-01 An Abundance of Cloud Storage
2025-05-01 Tip of the Day: Really Erase That Disk Before Discarding
2025-04-30 Yet Another Way to Install Windows 11 With a Local Account
2025-04-29 Tip of the Day: Download the Windows 10 ISO Before End of Support
2025-04-28 Tip of the Day: Find Your Downloads
2025-04-28 Where Do You Get Your Answers?
2025-04-27 Let’s Chat About: Risk (and Windows 10)
2025-04-26 How Do I View Hidden Files and Folders?
2025-04-25 How Does Security Software Protect Me After Windows 10 End of Support?
2025-04-25 Tip of the Day: Consider Shell Alternatives
2025-04-24 Tip of the Day: Don’t Call That Number!
2025-04-24 How Do I Know If My Hard Disk Is BitLocker-Encrypted?
2025-04-23 Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to Password Manager Autofill
2025-04-23 8 Ways AI Can Help You Every Day
2025-04-21 Tip of the Day: Consider a UPS
2025-04-21 Why Can’t I Talk to a Real Person?
2025-04-19 How Do I Split a Partition?
2025-04-18 Tip of the Day: Stop Typing WWW
2025-04-18 The Hidden Cost of Free Email: Protecting What Matters Before It’s Gone
2025-04-17 How Often Do I Need to Create a New Emergency/Rescue/Recovery Disk?
2025-04-17 Tip of the Day: Use Your Manufacturer’s Support Site
2025-04-16 Tip of the Day: Minimize All to Focus on One
2025-04-16 Don’t Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data
2025-04-15 Tip of the Day: Create a Safe Word
2025-04-14 Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu
2025-04-14 Tip of the Day: Save a Password-Protected PDF Without a Password
2025-04-13 Lets Chat About: China
2025-04-12 Security, Privacy, and Spam: What Disposable Emails Truly Protect
2025-04-11 Tip of the Day: Drive UAC with the Keyboard
2025-04-11 I Use BitLocker. Are My Backups Encrypted?
2025-04-10 Tip of the Day: Block Notification Requests in Edge
2025-04-10 Should I Back Up to an SD Card, USB Stick, or SSD?
2025-04-09 If You Don’t Have a TPM, You Might Still Have a TPM
2025-04-09 Tip of the Day: Guarantees Don’t Replace Your Data
2025-04-08 Tip of the Day: The Best Technology Can’t Save You From Incompetence
2025-04-07 How Do I Get My Windows Computers to Network With Each Other?
2025-04-06 Let Chat About – Strong and Divergent Opinions
2025-04-05 You Want More Than a Fix. You Want Knowledge.
2025-04-04 What is Quick Removal?
2025-04-03 Why Does My Computer Crash Randomly?
2025-04-02 No, Windows 11 Is Not Forcing You to Buy a New Machine
2025-03-31 Tip of the Day: View Windows Update History
2025-03-31 Why Are My Incremental Backups So Large?
2025-03-30 Let’s Chat About: Civility
2025-03-29 A New Unit of Measurement?
2025-03-28 Tip of the Day: Use Windows File Explorer to Explore Files
2025-03-28 Protecting Your Data: Why I Avoid Most Pre-Installed Security and Encryption Software
2025-03-27 Tip of the Day: Check Compatibility
2025-03-27 Restore the Right-Click Menu in Windows 11
2025-03-26 Tip of the Day: Wired Is Almost Always Faster
2025-03-26 Why Email Forwarding is Broken and What to Do Instead
2025-03-25 Tip of the Day: Use a Consistent Workgroup Name
2025-03-24 Tip of the Day: Don’t Panic
2025-03-24 The Email Tracking Myth: Why You’ll Never Reliably Know If Your Message Was Read
2025-03-23 Let’s Chat – About Experiments and Fear
2025-03-22 How to Send Email from Your Own Domain (Without Getting Blocked)
2025-03-21 Tip of the Day: Uninstall From the Windows Start Menu
2025-03-21 BitLocker vs. Cryptomator: Why I Use Both (and When You Should, Too)
2025-03-20 Why Might a Backup Program Talk About Sector by Sector Backups?
2025-03-19 Microsoft Killed WordPad. Here’s How to Revive It.
2025-03-17 Tip of the Day: Take It All With You to Your New Machine
2025-03-17 Why Doesn’t My New, Empty Hard Drive Show All the Advertised Space?
2025-03-15 Why Does My Microsoft Account Have Two Passwords?
2025-03-14 What Happens If I Lose My Microsoft Authenticator App?
2025-03-14 Tip of the Day: Select Multiple Items With the Mouse
2025-03-13 How Do I Eject My USB If the “Device Is Currently in Use”?
2025-03-13 Tip of the Day: Back Up Your Email
2025-03-12 Tip of the Day: Clean Up Your Downloads
2025-03-12 How Do I Recover From Turning the OneDrive Backup “Feature” Off?
2025-03-11 Tip of the Day: Use a Password Vault, Already
2025-03-10 Tip of the Day: Use Dropbox to Transfer Files
2025-03-10 Where Can I Download Windows?
2025-03-09 Let’s Chat About Microsoft
2025-03-08 Why Am I Getting “We Received a Request to Reset Your Facebook Password”?
2025-03-07 Someone’s Sending From My Email Address! How Do I Stop Them?
2025-03-07 Tip of the Day: Move, Copy, or Create a Shortcut
2025-03-06 Does a VPN Protect Me From Telemetry and Other Data Gathering?
2025-03-06 Tip of the Day: Resize Text Boxes — Maybe
2025-03-05 What’s the Difference Between Windows 10 and Windows 11?
2025-03-05 Tip of the Day: Windows File Explorer Display Options
2025-03-04 Tip of the Day: Watch Videos Full Screen
2025-03-03 How Can It Be Safe to Give My Information to Anyone?
2025-03-03 Tip of the Day: Use Device Manager to Update Drivers
2025-03-02 If AI Is Plagiarism, Then We Are All Plagiarists
2025-03-01 How Do I Switch to a Local Account Sign-in for Windows?
2025-02-28 Tip of the Day: Watch Your CPU Usage for Malware
2025-02-28 How to Create an Image Backup in EaseUS Todo Free
2025-02-27 Cryptomator vs VeraCrypt: Which Do You Want?
2025-02-27 Tip of the Day: Restore Trash
2025-02-26 Tip of the Day: Pin Browser Tabs for Quick Access
2025-02-26 How Do I Store Files on My Computer and Not OneDrive?
2025-02-25 Tip of the Day: Get Even More Info From Windows Task Manager
2025-02-24 Tip of the Day: Access the Device Manager Quickly
2025-02-24 What is IMAP and How Can It Help Me Manage My Email?
2025-02-22 Can I Use an External Keyboard with My Laptop?
2025-02-21 Why Didn’t Microsoft Fix the Bug I Care About?
2025-02-21 Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to the URL
2025-02-20 Tip of the Day: View the Full Path in Windows File Explorer
2025-02-20 Why I’m Switching to Signal
2025-02-19 OneDrive Backup Versus Using OneDrive for Backup, Even Though OneDrive Isn’t Backup
2025-02-18 Tip of the Day: Move Default File Locations to Another Drive
2025-02-17 What Happens at Windows 10 End of Support?
2025-02-17 Tip of the Day: Add a Drive to Your Desktop Computer
2025-02-15 Am I Wasting My Time Reporting Scam and Spam Emails?
2025-02-14 Using OneDrive as an External Drive
2025-02-14 Tip of the Day: If They Don’t Know Your Name, They Don’t Know You
2025-02-13 If Offered, Which Do I Want to Download: .exe or .msi?
2025-02-13 Tip of the Day: AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word
2025-02-12 Getting Rid of Copilot in Microsoft Office Apps
2025-02-11 Tip of the Day: Do a Full Scan Once in a While
2025-02-10 If I Could Tell You Only One Thing…
2025-02-10 Tip of the Day: Don’t Start with To:
2025-02-08 What Happens When I Mark Something as Spam?
2025-02-07 What is Secure Delete?
2025-02-07 Tip of the Day: Disable Screen Effects for Speed
2025-02-06 Tip of the Day: Double-check the From: Address
2025-02-06 How to Back Up 1Password and Why You Should
2025-02-05 Should I Always Sign Out of My Online Account?
2025-02-05 Tip of the Day: Turn Off or Control AutoPlay in Windows 10
2025-02-04 Tip of the Day: Quick Access to the Volume Mixer
2025-02-03 Tip of the Day: Edit Elsewhere
2025-02-03 Are Free Email Services Worth It?
2025-02-01 Change for the Sake of Change?
2025-01-31 Tip of the Day: TAB Through Fields
2025-01-31 Are Backup Images More Fragile Than Just Copying Individual Files?
2025-01-30 Do Not Search for Support Phone Numbers
2025-01-30 Tip of the Day: Ignore Unknown Social Connections
2025-01-29 Tip of the Day: The Recycle Bin Isn’t Always Used
2025-01-27 Tip of the Day: Update, Update, and Update Again
2025-01-27 What’s a Screenshot, and How Do I Take One?
2025-01-24 Convert an ISO to a Bootable USB Using Rufus
2025-01-24 Tip of the Day: Use Google as Your Calculator
2025-01-23 My Gmail Is Full, and Google’s Threatening to Stop My Email. How Do I Make Space?
2025-01-23 Tip of the Day: Where Does Save Save?
2025-01-22 Tip of the Day: Turn Off Bluetooth
2025-01-22 What Does It Mean to Quarantine Malware? And Is It Safe?
2025-01-21 Tip of the Day: a Solid-Color Desktop
2025-01-20 Tip of the Day: Disable CAPS LOCK
2025-01-20 How the Internet Is Breaking Journalism
2025-01-18 Think Before You Share: Protecting Yourself From Email Harassment
2025-01-17 Tip of the Day: Change the Output Audio Device
2025-01-17 How to Recover When You Lose Everything Traveling
2025-01-16 Why Am I Seeing These Odd Crypto-Currency “Help Me” Comments?
2025-01-15 Tip of the Day: “Save” Versus “Save As”
2025-01-15 Tip of the Day: the Windows Emoji Keyboard
2025-01-15 Does Turning a Computer Off at Night Keep It Safer From Hackers?
2025-01-14 Tip of the Day: Use Jump Lists
2025-01-13 Tip of the Day: Hide the Taskbar
2025-01-13 Would You Give Your Wallet to a Stranger?
2025-01-11 Yet Another Way to Install Windows 11 Without a TPM
2025-01-10 Tip of the Day: Batch Rename (kind of) and Undo in File Explorer
2025-01-10 What Are Windows “Libraries” and How Do They Work?
2025-01-09 Tip of the Day: When in Doubt, Right-Click
2025-01-09 How to Back Up Before a Windows Update
2025-01-08 Tip of the Day: Review Your Online Recovery Information
2025-01-08 How Do I Make Sure Malware is Gone?
2025-01-07 Tip of the Day: Run Anything
2025-01-06 Tip of the Day: Faster Ways to Common Settings
2025-01-06 Should I Back Up If My Machine Is Infected?
2025-01-04 Are Humans Getting More Stupid Because of Computers?
2025-01-03 How Scammers Steal Your Money
2025-01-03 Using OneDrive Without Using OneDrive
2025-01-03 Tip of the Day: Change the Subject
2025-01-02 How Do I Transfer My Programs and Data to a New Machine?
2025-01-02 Tip of the Day: Edit Your Facebook Comments
2025-01-01 How Do I Get a Text Message Without a Cell Phone?
2025-01-01 Tip of the Day: CAPTCHAs Never Use Start->Run

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