All Entries (by date)

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2019-12-07 What Happens When I Die?
2019-12-06 Is There a Limit to What a Single Folder or Directory Can Hold?
2019-12-05 Why Are There Websites in My Browser History I’ve Never Been To?
2019-12-04 When Does Windows 10 Support End?
2019-12-02 Embracing the Most Important Attitude
2019-11-30 Why Is It So Important to Use a Different Password on Every Site?
2019-11-29 How to Diagnose Wi-Fi Signal Strength Issues
2019-11-28 How Do Outlook and Outlook.com Relate?
2019-11-27 Is a Periodic Password Change a Good Thing?
2019-11-25 Why Doesn’t My New, Empty Hard Drive Show All the Advertised Space?
2019-11-23 Online Shopping: Just How Safe Is It?
2019-11-22 Do I Need More than One Anti-malware Tool?
2019-11-21 How Do I Tell If My Email Has Been Hacked?
2019-11-20 How to Determine What’s Installed on Your Machine
2019-11-18 How the Internet Is Breaking Journalism (and What It Means to You)
2019-11-16 This Doesn’t Need to Happen
2019-11-15 Can I Back Up Files to a Separate Partition on the Same Hard Disk?
2019-11-14 How Do I Reformat and Reinstall Windows?
2019-11-13 Can I Recover Old Files from an External Hard Drive?
2019-11-11 How Do I Find Who Hacked My Email Account?
2019-11-10 How Do I Change My DNS to 1.1.1.1 in Windows 10?
2019-11-09 Has a Hacker Really Hacked My Email Account?
2019-11-08 What’s a NAS? How Do I Set One Up?
2019-11-07 How Do I Get into My Outlook.com Account If I Don’t Have the Recovery Phone or Email?
2019-11-06 How To Reduce System Restore Disk Space Usage
2019-11-04 Am I Wasting My Time Reporting Scam and Spam Emails?
2019-11-02 What’s the Best Registry Cleaner?
2019-11-01 Why Am I Getting “Invalid Password”?
2019-10-31 Why Do I See Lots of Failed Login Attempts on My Account?
2019-10-30 Does Whole-disk Encryption Impact Computer Performance?
2019-10-28 Should I Partition My Hard Disk?
2019-10-26 What are the Internet’s Rules about Free Speech?
2019-10-25 Are Password Managers Safe?
2019-10-24 Can I Delete a Partition Without Losing Its Data?
2019-10-23 Do I Need to Make a New Rescue Disc Every Time My Backup Software Updates?
2019-10-21 Why Is It Important to Have Different Passwords on Different Accounts?
2019-10-19 Why Don’t People Back Up?
2019-10-18 How Do I Transfer My System to a Replacement Drive?
2019-10-17 If I Do These Things, Will I Be Anonymous?
2019-10-16 Why that “Unimportant” Account Matters
2019-10-14 How Do I Delete Multiple Emails When I Have a Lot to Delete?
2019-10-12 Why ANY Two-Factor Is Better than No Two-Factor at All
2019-10-11 Why Password Vault Bugs Make Me Cringe
2019-10-10 Is It Safe to Leave a Flash Drive Plugged In All the Time?
2019-10-09 Why I Don’t Like System Restore
2019-10-07 Why Can’t the Poor just Pirate Software?
2019-10-05 How Do I Recover My Facebook Password?
2019-10-04 How to Protect Your Computer from Power Problems
2019-10-03 Why is Windows Complaining About Unsupported Hardware?
2019-10-02 Why is the Same File a Different Size in Different Places?
2019-09-30 What’s the Difference Between a Hub, a Switch, and a Router?
2019-09-28 Avoiding Tech Support Scams
2019-09-27 How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System?
2019-09-26 How to Protect Your Computer from Natural Disasters
2019-09-25 Why Am I Being Asked for Additional Verification on Sign-in?
2019-09-23 Yes, You Should Give Google Your Mobile Number
2019-09-21 How Do I Choose a Good Password?
2019-09-20 Are Deleted Files also Deleted from Backups?
2019-09-19 Are My Skype Calls Recorded?
2019-09-18 How Do Password Vaults Enter Passwords?
2019-09-16 What Information Should I Provide When Asking for Help?
2019-09-16 Don’t Be Afraid of Your Computer
2019-09-14 Why Is There so Much Spam?
2019-09-13 How to Get Email with Attachments Delivered
2019-09-12 What Windows Startup Programs Do I Need?
2019-09-11 How to Move an Office 365 Subscription to Another Machine
2019-09-09 Is There a Real Alternative to Windows?
2019-09-07 How to Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive
2019-09-06 What’s the Best Anti-Malware Tool to Keep Me Safe?
2019-09-05 How Do I Boot from CD/DVD/USB in Windows 8 & 10?
2019-09-04 How To Reinstall Windows Without an Installation Disc
2019-09-02 Are PCs Doomed?
2019-08-31 Why Can’t I Talk to a Real Person?
2019-08-30 How Do I Change My Email Address?
2019-08-29 Is My Hard Disk About to Die?
2019-08-28 How to Choose Good Security Questions
2019-08-26 Crank Your Password Strength Up to 11!
2019-08-24 Two-Factor Authentication Keeps the Hackers Out
2019-08-23 How to Protect Your Cloud Storage and Backups from Ransomware
2019-08-22 What’s the Difference Between a Sandbox and a Virtual Machine?
2019-08-21 Why Are Pictures Not Showing in Email?
2019-08-19 Facebook Hacked? What You Need to Do NOW
2019-08-17 Why Does Legitimate Email from PayPal Instruct Me to Click a Link?
2019-08-16 Can My ISP Monitor My Internet Usage?
2019-08-15 Why is Windows 10 Using More and More RAM?
2019-08-14 Why UEFI?
2019-08-12 Where Can I Download Windows?
2019-08-10 How Do I Fix Windows Update?
2019-08-09 Are HTTPS Connections Really Safe?
2019-08-08 How to Keep Information on a Shared Computer Private
2019-08-07 What Is It About Attachments?
2019-08-05 How Do I Find Out What Program Is Using All My CPU?
2019-08-02 How To Trace an IP Address: Myth Versus Reality
2019-08-01 What Can a Technician with Remote Access Do?
2019-07-31 How to Find Software Support
2019-07-27 Is Online Banking Safe?
2019-07-26 Restoring an Image Backup from One Computer to Another
2019-07-25 How to Repair a Computer that Only Blue Screens
2019-07-24 How To Keep Using Windows 7 Safely After Support Ends
2019-07-22 Why Is My Machine Slowing Down?
2019-07-20 How to Avoid Ransomware
2019-07-19 Why Do People Think a Phone is More Secure than Email?
2019-07-18 What are my Hotmail and Outlook.com Account Recovery Options?
2019-07-17 Open-Shell: Regain Your Start Menu in Windows and Much More
2019-07-15 How Do I Best Extend My Wireless Network for Laptop Access?
2019-07-13 How To Reduce Your Frustration with Technology
2019-07-12 Can My School Tell I’m Using Tor?
2019-07-11 What is the System Idle Process and Why Is It Using Most of the CPU?
2019-07-10 Disabling Remote Access Doesn’t Disable All Remote Access
2019-07-08 How Do I Back Up My Computer?
2019-07-06 Never Attribute to Malice…
2019-07-05 What’s the Difference Between Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance?
2019-07-04 How Do I Change My Website to Be an https Secure Site?
2019-07-03 What Is Your Most Trusted Method of Backing Up?
2019-07-01 Where’s My Disk Space Going?
2019-06-29 How to Back Up Windows 10
2019-06-28 My Computers Keep Dying — Is It Me?
2019-06-27 Why Does My Facebook Post Show as “Unavailable” to Some People?
2019-06-26 How Do I Know a Web Address is Safe?
2019-06-24 Stop Spreading Manure
2019-06-22 What Happened to TrueCrypt and What Do I Use Instead?
2019-06-21 Am I at Risk Because I Don’t Get a New Phone?
2019-06-20 Do I Need OneDrive?
2019-06-19 Two Steps to Better Search Results
2019-06-17 How to Remove PUPs, Foistware, Drive-bys, Toolbars, and Other Annoying Things
2019-06-15 Microsoft, We Deserve Better
2019-06-14 Will My Old Computer Run Windows 10?
2019-06-13 Why Are There Vertical Bars on the Left of Some Emails I Send?
2019-06-12 Why Do Ads Follow Me Around the Internet?
2019-06-10 My Computer Is Infected with Malware. Should I Just Throw It Out?
2019-06-08 “From” Spoofing: How Spammers Send Email that Looks Like It Came from You
2019-06-07 Supercookies and Evercookies and No Cookies at All: Resistance Is Futile
2019-06-06 How To Keep an External Hard Drive Useful and Healthy Longer
2019-06-05 Are the Bad Guys Winning?
2019-06-03 I Run Anti-virus Software. Why Do I Still Sometimes Get Infected?
2019-06-01 Should I Install the Latest Windows 10 Update?
2019-05-31 Why Does Thunderbird Think this Message Might Be a Scam?
2019-05-30 How Do I Reactivate an Old Email Account?
2019-05-29 How Do I Print An Email or Webpage and Have It Work?
2019-05-27 How Should I Set Up My Home Network?
2019-05-25 Does Technology Isolate or Connect?
2019-05-24 How Do I Password-protect a Flash Drive?
2019-05-23 Should I Upgrade to Windows 8.1 Instead of Windows 10?
2019-05-22 Which Files Were Affected by a Hack or Malware?
2019-05-20 How Do I Use an Open Wi-Fi Hotspot Safely?
2019-05-17 What Can I Disable in Task Manager’s Startup List?
2019-05-16 Why Must I Re-enter my Email to Unsubscribe?
2019-05-15 Can My Mobile Provider Track What I Do Online?
2019-05-13 Half a Dozen Uses for OneDrive
2019-05-11 On Confidence and Technology
2019-05-10 Recovering an Existing Online Account Password
2019-05-09 Getting Microsoft Office for Free, Sort of
2019-05-08 How Do I Reset Windows 10?
2019-05-06 Dealing with Browser Problems
2019-05-04 Why Haven’t I Received the Latest Windows 10 Update?
2019-05-03 Is an Up-to-Date Browser Secure on an Out-of-Date OS?
2019-05-02 How Is it Possible to Change a Password Without Re-encrypting an Encrypted Disk?
2019-05-01 What is “Quick Removal” and How is it Changing in Windows 10?
2019-04-29 How Do I Remove Malware?
2019-04-26 Will Email to an Invalid Email Address Be Read by Someone?
2019-04-25 Will Windows 7 Keep Working After Support Ends?
2019-04-24 The One Thing Every Non-technical Person Needs to Know
2019-04-22 CHKDSK: What Is It and How Do I Run It?
2019-04-19 How Can I Tell If a Download is Safe?
2019-04-18 What’s a Browser Cache? How Do I Clear It? Why Would I Want To?
2019-04-17 How Do I Change My Default Web Browser in Windows 10?
2019-04-15 7 Steps to a Secure Router
2019-04-12 Can I Use External Hard Drives as NAS Storage?
2019-04-11 How Can I Boost My Laptop’s Performance?
2019-04-09 The State of Passwords in 2019
2019-04-08 Is Copyright Still an Issue If Something’s Not Available Anywhere?
2019-04-05 How Do I Get Off of an Unwanted Email Distribution List?
2019-04-04 Email I Was Composing has Disappeared. Can I Get it Back?
2019-04-03 Could a Built-in Tracking Device in My Laptop Detect My Tor Browsing History?
2019-04-01 How Do I Get Data Off of the Hard Drive in a Dead Computer?
2019-03-29 How Do I Contact Outlook.com Customer Service?
2019-03-28 Can Everything I Do Online Be Monitored at My Router?
2019-03-27 Dealing with Fake “Ask Leo”
2019-03-25 Can I Stop or ‘Un-send’ an Email I Sent by Mistake?
2019-03-22 How Do I Remove this Error on Startup?
2019-03-21 Can I Use My TV as a Second Display?
2019-03-20 How Long Does Windows 7 Have Before It’s Phased Out?
2019-03-18 Is Changing My Password Enough?
2019-03-15 How Do I Clear the Browser Cache in Mozilla Firefox?
2019-03-15 How Do I Clear The Browser Cache in Microsoft Edge?
2019-03-15 How Do I Get Rid of Ask.com?
2019-03-15 How Do I Clear The Browser Cache in Google Chrome?
2019-03-15 How Do I Clear The Browser Cache in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE)?
2019-03-14 Why Don’t I Get Sound from My Computer? (A Checklist)
2019-03-13 Coping with Gray Text
2019-03-11 What Security Software Do You Recommend?
2019-03-08 How Do I Get My Web Browser’s Menu and Toolbar Back?
2019-03-07 How Do I Clean Up After Windows Update Breaks Other Applications?
2019-03-06 Do I Need a New Email Address if Mine’s Involved in a Breach?
2019-03-04 Can I Tell If Email I Sent Has Been Read by the Recipient?
2019-03-01 Why Do System Cleanup Utilities Report So Many Errors on a Supposedly Clean System?
2019-02-28 Password Checkup: A Recommended Chrome Browser Extension
2019-02-27 The Journey to My New Computer: RAM Upgrade
2019-02-25 How Do I Remove Myself from the Search Engines?
2019-02-22 Should I Defrag My External Drive, and If So, How?
2019-02-21 Why Am I Not Getting the Email I Signed Up For?
2019-02-20 The Journey to My New Computer: Success and Failure
2019-02-18 What Good is Incognito Mode?
2019-02-15 What Does “Mailbox Unavailable” Mean and How Do I Fix It?
2019-02-13 The Journey to My New Computer: Update, Update, Update
2019-02-07 The Journey to My New Computer: The First Thing I Do
2019-02-04 Email Hacked? 7 Things You Need to Do NOW
2019-02-01 How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Being Hacked?
2019-01-31 Two-factor Might Be Hackable? USE IT ANYWAY!
2019-01-30 The Journey to My New Computer: Choices
2019-01-28 The Deep, Dark Secret Behind Ask Leo!
2019-01-25 How Do I Get Rid Of “overseer.exe”?
2019-01-24 The Journey to My New Computer: Just What Do I Do All Day?
2019-01-23 What Should I Do About the Latest Breach?
2019-01-21 12 Steps to Keep from Getting Your Account Hacked
2019-01-18 What Does “Relaying Denied” Mean?
2019-01-17 How Can I Make the Text on My Screen Larger?
2019-01-16 The Journey to My New Computer: Taking Stock
2019-01-14 A One-step Way to Lose Your Account … Forever
2019-01-11 Why Does My Email Program Keep Prompting for My Password?
2019-01-10 How Do I Move the Taskbar Back to the Bottom?
2019-01-09 What Is “About:blank” and How Do I Get Rid of It?
2019-01-07 Is the Cloud Dangerous?
2019-01-04 How Do I Decompress All the Files that Windows Compressed for Me?
2019-01-03 Out-of-Office Replies are Evil

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