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2025-07-12 Searching for a Technical Support Support Phone Number? Avoid This Huge Trap
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 How to Share Two-Factor With Another Person
2025-07-09 Should You Sign Up for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10?
2025-07-05 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
2025-07-03 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
2025-06-30 How to Get Data Off a Hard Drive in a Dead Computer
2025-06-28 Core vs. Logical Processors: What Really Powers Your CPU?
2025-06-27 What Happens If You Click a Bad Link?
2025-06-26 How to Extract Text with Text Extractor
2025-06-25 Where Are My OneDrive Files?
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 All the “Ishings” Trying to Scam You
2025-06-19 Why Do You Have Two Different Backup Program Recommendations?
2025-06-18 My OneDrive-free Experiment
2025-06-14 How Do I Remove a BIOS or UEFI Password?
2025-06-13 Fix Printer Problems with an Uninstall and Reinstall
2025-06-12 How Big a Backup Disk Do I Need?
2025-06-11 Why I Don’t Expect a Windows 10 Apocalypse
2025-06-09 Size Matters! (When It Comes to Passwords)
2025-06-07 How to Copy Text From Images
2025-06-06 Windows 12?
2025-06-06 Passkeys and Hardware Keys
2025-06-04 What Is a Passkey?
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
2025-05-29 The Big One Is Coming. Are You Tech-Ready?
2025-05-28 How End-to-End Encryption Protects Your Messages and Where It Fails
2025-05-26 CHKDSK: What Is It and How Do I Run It?
2025-05-24 Many Ways Your Account Can Be Hacked and What to Do About It
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?
2025-05-21 Should You Leave Your Backup Drive Plugged In? The Real Risk
2025-05-19 The Event Viewer, Explained
2025-05-17 My (Not So) Favorite Question
2025-05-16 Can AI Block Spam?
2025-05-15 Passkeys Are Never the Only Way In
2025-05-14 Start11: Another Start Menu Replacement
2025-05-12 Extend Your Wi-Fi: Simple Fixes for Better Home Coverage
2025-05-10 Should I Update to Windows 11? (May 2025 update)
2025-05-09 Windows 11 Home vs. Pro: What’s the Difference, and Is It Worth It?
2025-05-08 How Important Is a Clean Uninstall?
2025-05-07 Avoiding Scams: Why Hackers Can’t Recover Your Gmail for You
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
2025-05-01 An Abundance of Cloud Storage
2025-04-30 Yet Another Way to Install Windows 11 With a Local Account
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?
2025-04-24 How Do I Know If My Hard Disk Is BitLocker-Encrypted?
2025-04-23 8 Ways AI Can Help You Every Day
2025-04-21 Why Can’t I Talk to a Real Person?
2025-04-19 How Do I Split a Partition?
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?
2025-04-16 Don’t Trust the Cloud. You Need to Back Up Your Email and Online Data
2025-04-14 Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu
2025-04-13 Lets Chat About: China
2025-04-12 Security, Privacy, and Spam: What Disposable Emails Truly Protect
2025-04-11 I Use BitLocker. Are My Backups Encrypted?
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
2025-04-07 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 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 Protecting Your Data: Why I Avoid Most Pre-Installed Security and Encryption Software
2025-03-27 Restore the Right-Click Menu in Windows 11
2025-03-26 Why Email Forwarding is Broken and What to Do Instead
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 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 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?
2025-03-13 How Do I Eject My USB If the “Device Is Currently in Use”?
2025-03-12 How Do I Recover From Turning the OneDrive Backup “Feature” Off?
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?
2025-03-06 Does a VPN Protect Me From Telemetry and Other Data Gathering?
2025-03-05 What’s the Difference Between Windows 10 and Windows 11?
2025-03-03 How Can It Be Safe to Give My Information to Anyone?
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 How to Create an Image Backup in EaseUS Todo Free
2025-02-27 Cryptomator vs VeraCrypt: Which Do You Want?
2025-02-26 How Do I Store Files on My Computer and Not OneDrive?
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?
2025-02-20 Why I’m Switching to Signal
2025-02-19 OneDrive Backup Versus Using OneDrive for Backup, Even Though OneDrive Isn’t Backup
2025-02-17 What Happens at Windows 10 End of Support?
2025-02-15 Am I Wasting My Time Reporting Scam and Spam Emails?
2025-02-14 Using OneDrive as an External Drive
2025-02-13 If Offered, Which Do I Want to Download: .exe or .msi?
2025-02-12 Getting Rid of Copilot in Microsoft Office Apps
2025-02-10 If I Could Tell You Only One Thing…
2025-02-08 What Happens When I Mark Something as Spam?
2025-02-07 What is Secure Delete?
2025-02-06 How to Back Up 1Password and Why You Should
2025-02-05 Should I Always Sign Out of My Online Account?
2025-02-03 Are Free Email Services Worth It?
2025-02-01 Change for the Sake of Change?
2025-01-31 Are Backup Images More Fragile Than Just Copying Individual Files?
2025-01-30 Do Not Search for Support Phone Numbers
2025-01-27 What’s a Screenshot, and How Do I Take One?
2025-01-25 How to Block the Windows 11 Upgrade and Stay on Windows 10
2025-01-24 Convert an ISO to a Bootable USB Using Rufus
2025-01-23 My Gmail Is Full, and Google’s Threatening to Stop My Email. How Do I Make Space?
2025-01-22 What Does It Mean to Quarantine Malware? And Is It Safe?
2025-01-20 How the Internet Is Breaking Journalism
2025-01-18 Think Before You Share: Protecting Yourself From Email Harassment
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 Does Turning a Computer Off at Night Keep It Safer From Hackers?
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 What Are Windows “Libraries” and How Do They Work?
2025-01-09 How to Back Up Before a Windows Update
2025-01-08 How Do I Make Sure Malware is Gone?
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 Using OneDrive Without Using OneDrive
2025-01-02 How Do I Transfer My Programs and Data to a New Machine?
2025-01-01 How Do I Get a Text Message Without a Cell Phone?

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