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2020-09-21 How Long Should a Password Be?
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
2020-09-16 Stop Spreading Manure
2020-09-14 How Do I Find Someone’s Email Address?
2020-09-11 The Top Reason Your Computer is Slow, and What To Do About It
2020-09-10 Just What Is Common Sense?
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?
2020-09-02 What’s the Difference Between CHKDSK /F and CHKDSK /R?
2020-08-31 How to Avoid Ransomware — the 3 Things You’re Hopefully Already Doing
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
2020-08-27 No Signal: What it Means and What to Check
2020-08-26 My Shift Key is Stuck. How Do I Unstick It?
2020-08-24 How Do Outlook and Outlook.com Relate?
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
2020-08-13 I Know My Password is Right, But I Can’t Sign In. What Do I Do?
2020-08-12 Is There an Email Service that Doesn’t Require a Phone Number? My Recommended Approach, and Alternatives
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
2020-08-06 How Do I Find Out Who Owns an Email Address? The Reasons It’s Hard, and the Steps to Take
2020-08-05 How Long Should I Keep My Backups?
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?
2020-07-30 Why Is My Hard Drive Not Showing in Windows File Explorer?
2020-07-29 What is Defragging and Do I Need It In Windows 10? What It Is, Why It Is, and What, if Anything, You Need Do
2020-07-27 How Do I Test Backups? 3 Practical Steps to Make Sure the Safety Net Will Work
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?
2020-07-22 What’s the Difference Between an Email Account, an Email Address, an Email Program, and an Email Service?
2020-07-20 How Do You Delete Things from the Internet? – Why the Internet is Forever, Except When It’s Not
2020-07-17 Can I Recover Deleted Emails in Gmail I Deleted Three Years Ago? How to Side-step this Issue in the Future
2020-07-16 Why Might Wi-Fi Be Faster than Ethernet?
2020-07-15 Why Can’t Online Services Tell Me My Password? (If They Can, There’s Something Wrong)
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 – The 4 Most Important Steps
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? Why You Really Want that Wired Connection
2020-07-02 How To Get the Latest Windows 10 Update – Three Techniques and a Recommendation
2020-07-01 Is It Safe to Let Your Browser Remember Passwords? The Often Overlooked Risk
2020-06-29 Using Disk Cleanup in Windows 10 – Including What to Clean Up
2020-06-26 Can My Work Spy on My Home Computer? Three Ways You Might Be Letting Them In, and What To Do
2020-06-25 Why Is My Laptop Running Slower When It’s on Battery? Where to Look for the Settings You Can Change
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? Where to Find Them AND Places to Avoid
2020-06-19 Am I Too Old to Start a Career in IT? Revealing the Key to Success
2020-06-18 What Is “about:blank” (or “about:blank#blocked”) and How Do I Get Rid of It? Why It’s Not Malware, and How You Can Use 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? Why It Happens and What to Do
2020-06-12 5 Steps to Better Wi-Fi In Your House – Improving Your Wireless Connection
2020-06-11 Microsoft Account Recovery Code – What and Why with Instructions Included
2020-06-10 Can I Move My Old Computer’s Hard Drive to My New Computer to Transfer Data? My Recommended Approach
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? (And Why I Purchased Two for the Important People in My Life)
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 – Introducing the Network Performance Display in Web Developer Tools
2020-06-01 How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System? Five Steps to Get as Close as You Can
2020-06-01 Why Can’t I Talk To a Real Person? What You Need To Consider When Using Free Services
2020-05-30 How Do I Correct My Microsoft Account (Outlook.com) Time Zone? The Not-so-obvious Location Revealed
2020-05-29 How Do I Copy a Webpage? Four Approaches and an Interesting Insight
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?
2020-05-23 Can Someone Install Something on My Computer When It’s Not Logged In?
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?
2020-05-16 Does a Wi-Fi Log-in Page Mean It’s Secure?
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”?
2020-05-11 Why I Don’t Like System Restore
2020-05-09 The Biggest Risk to Your Privacy
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 Video Chat Be Intercepted and Recorded?
2020-04-24 How Can I Delete an Old Account If I Forgot My Email and Password?
2020-04-23 Should I Take the Flash Update I’ve Been Offered?
2020-04-22 The Risk of Searching for a Support Phone Number
2020-04-20 How Does a VPN Protect Me?
2020-04-18 Playing With Partitions — Ask Leo! Live
2020-04-18 How Can I View Online Video Without the Starts and Stops?
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
2020-04-04 Why Don’t I Get Sound from My Computer? (A Checklist)
2020-04-03 Customizing Windows 10 – Ask Leo! Live
2020-04-03 How Can a PIN Be as Secure as a Password?
2020-04-02 How to Change the Default Search Engine in Microsoft Edge (New & Old)
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
2020-03-28 Preparing For The Ultimate Disaster
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?
2020-03-23 Why Is There So Much Spam?
2020-03-21 Setting Up Macrium Reflect Free (Webinar #2)
2020-03-21 How Much Can I Trust Information on the Internet?
2020-03-20 What’s an “Internal Server Error” and How Do I Fix It?
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?
2020-03-16 How to Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive
2020-03-14 It Pays to Be Skeptical
2020-03-13 Can a Thumb Drive Carry Malware?
2020-03-12 Why Does Email I Send Fail But a Reply Works?
2020-03-11 The First Eight Things to Do with Your New Computer
2020-03-09 Creating a Backup Image Using Windows’ Built-in Backup
2020-03-07 Sending Text Messages Using Your Computer
2020-03-06 Using OneDrive for Nearly Continuous Backup
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
2020-02-27 How Do I Hack Someone’s Account? How Do I Hack My Own?
2020-02-26 Designing My New Desktop
2020-02-24 How Do I Fix Windows Update?
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
2020-02-17 How Do I Know a Web Address is Safe?
2020-02-15 Do All These Software Updates Take Up More and More Disk Space? Where Else You Need to Look
2020-02-14 Focus Better with Multiple Desktops
2020-02-13 What Does “Not Responding” Mean?
2020-02-12 Does Turning Off Remote Access Keep Me Safer?
2020-02-10 My Computer Doesn’t Work — What Do I Do?
2020-02-08 How Windows 10 Changed Setting Default Programs
2020-02-07 Diagnosing Web Pages with Inspect
2020-02-06 Why Do So Many Tech Support Solutions Start with “Reboot” or “Turn It Off”?
2020-02-05 Why Don’t Pictures Show When I Visit Some Websites?
2020-02-03 What Is an Email Quota and What Does “Over Quota” Mean?
2020-02-01 What Security Software Do You Recommend? Basic Protection in Four Steps
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?
2020-01-27 Will Using an On-Screen Keyboard Stop Keyloggers?
2020-01-25 Is a Microsoft Office Subscription Worth It?
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?
2020-01-20 What Are My Hotmail and Outlook.com Account Recovery Options?
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)
2020-01-09 Can’t I Just Copy Everything Instead of Using a Backup Program?
2020-01-08 How to Speed Up Your Older Computer: Five Options
2020-01-06 Can I Count on Mail to a Bad Address Bouncing Back?
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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