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2021-10-25 If I Had to Do It Over…
2021-10-22 What’s the Best Anti-Virus?
2021-10-21 Why Does a Scan of a Simple Text Document Result in Such a Large File?
2021-10-20 I’m Suddenly Getting More Spam Emails. Should I Be Worried?
2021-10-18 How Do I Fix “Your Connection is Not Private”?
2021-10-15 Why Does Email Take So Long to Arrive Sometimes?
2021-10-14 “Is It Possible” Is the Wrong Question
2021-10-13 What Is a TPM? And Why Do I Need One?
2021-10-11 My Registry Scan Reported Hundreds of Errors! Which Do I Fix?
2021-10-08 What Does “CHKDSK Is Not Available for RAW Drives” Mean?
2021-10-07 Windows 11 First Impressions
2021-10-06 Do Random Words Make Better Passwords?
2021-10-04 What External Drive Should I Get?
2021-10-01 Will I Lose My Email If I Don’t Check It for a While?
2021-09-30 Can Someone See Encrypted Email?
2021-09-29 Responses to Your Three Common Password Manager Objections
2021-09-27 Can My School See Email I Send and Recieve?
2021-09-24 Can I Trace a MAC Address?
2021-09-23 How Long Does a Hard Drive Last?
2021-09-22 A Data Breach Has My Data. What Do I Do?
2021-09-20 How Should I Erase My HDD Before Giving It Away?
2021-09-19 How Do Websites Keep Passwords Secure?
2021-09-17 Can I Stop or ‘Un-send’ an Email I Sent by Mistake?
2021-09-16 Why Do I Get a Black Screen on My Computer After a While?
2021-09-15 7 Signs of Phishing to Watch For
2021-09-13 Can I ZIP Photos or MP3 Files to Save Space?
2021-09-10 Back Up with Dropbox
2021-09-09 How to Use Old HDDs as External Drives
2021-09-08 Why Am I Getting Email Sent to an Email Address Similar to Mine?
2021-09-06 If I Share Wi-Fi With My Neighbor, Can They See My Network Traffic?
2021-09-03 Find Your Lost Bitlocker Recovery Key in Your Microsoft Account
2021-09-02 What Does the “Mailbox Unavailable” Error Mean and How Do I Fix It?
2021-08-30 How to Email Large Files Using Any Email Program or Service
2021-08-27 Can I Just Unplug My Computer to Shut It Down?
2021-08-26 How Do I Determine a Shortlink’s Destination?
2021-08-25 My Keyboard Won’t Work after Windows Update. How Do I Fix It?
2021-08-23 How to Get Rid of Spam Emails
2021-08-20 How Do I Access the Computer of Someone Who’s Passed Away?
2021-08-19 How to Move Email Messages to Another Account
2021-08-18 Why Am I Still Getting Updates for Windows 7?
2021-08-16 When Is “www” Needed and Why?
2021-08-13 Why Would Someone Use My Email as their Recovery Email?
2021-08-12 Is It Safe to Use a Higher Wattage Power Supply in My Computer?
2021-08-11 How Long Will Windows 10 Be Supported?
2021-08-09 How Do I Change My Microsoft Account Phone Number?
2021-08-06 My Mouse Cursor is Moving on its Own. Have I Been Hacked?
2021-08-05 How to Reformat a Disk
2021-08-04 No Email from LastPass? Dealing with Sign-In Problems
2021-08-02 How Do I Stop My Neighbor Using My IP Address?
2021-07-30 What Do I Do If My Backup Drive is Full?
2021-07-29 How Do I Remove Invalid Email Addresses from Auto-fill?
2021-07-28 Should I Update to Windows 11?
2021-07-26 How Do I Connect My Desktop to Open Wi-Fi Nearby?
2021-07-26 How To Deal When Unsubscribe Doesn’t Work
2021-07-23 Never Gonna Give You Up
2021-07-23 Dialing Back Social Media
2021-07-23 What if I Forget My Passwords If I Use Two-Factor Authentication?
2021-07-22 When is Windows Support Ending?
2021-07-21 How To Use Microsoft Word for Transcriptions
2021-07-19 “Chkdsk Cannot Run Because the Volume Is in Use by Another Process”
2021-07-16 The 40-year Takeaway
2021-07-15 What Are These Access Attempts In My Router Log?
2021-07-14 Did Microsoft Lie?
2021-07-12 Should I Use RAID for Backup?
2021-07-09 Which Email Service Should I Use?
2021-07-08 How Do I Move an Off-screen Window?
2021-07-07 How I Fixed a Failed Windows 10 Update
2021-07-05 Restoring an Image Backup from One Computer to Another
2021-07-02 How Were Files Recovered that I Thought Were Deleted?
2021-07-01 What’s the Best Upgrade for an Older Machine?
2021-06-30 When Backups Might Not Save You from Ransomware
2021-06-28 Why Shouldn’t I Use the “Report Spam” or “Junk” Button?
2021-06-25 A Program Crashes and I Can’t Uninstall It. What Do I Do?
2021-06-24 How Do I Safely Back Up an Infected Drive?
2021-06-23 Someone Has My IP Address – Should I Be Scared?
2021-06-21 Phishing: How to Know It When You See It
2021-06-18 How Do I Use and Clear Outlook.com Contacts and Auto-complete Suggestions?
2021-06-17 Can My Computer Be Hacked If It’s Off?
2021-06-16 Should I Just Hire a Hacker to Recover My Account?
2021-06-14 How Do I Permanently Close My Account?
2021-06-12 My Email Disappeared While Composing. Can I Get it Back?
2021-06-11 How Do I Move Thunderbird to a New Computer?
2021-06-10 No, Your Facebook Account Has Not Been Hacked
2021-06-09 Just What Is a Hack?
2021-06-07 Why Your System is Slow Even Though the CPU Is Idle
2021-06-05 What Is Pagefile.sys? Can I Delete It?
2021-06-04 Does Getting Porn Spam Mean You’ve Been Surfing Porn Sites?
2021-06-03 Can I Use a Charger With the Same Voltage but Different Amperage Rating?
2021-06-02 How Should I Back Up Email?
2021-05-31 How Do I Protect Myself from Other Computers on My Local Network?
2021-05-29 Sometimes It’s Faster If You Just Start Over
2021-05-28 Finding the Owner of an IP Address
2021-05-27 What is the System Idle Process and Why Is It Using Most of the CPU?
2021-05-26 How Long Will My SSD Last?
2021-05-24 Never Attribute to Malice . . .
2021-05-22 It’s Important You Know: There Are Ads in Search Results
2021-05-21 What I Do When Software Stops Working
2021-05-20 How Do I Change the Startup Order in Windows 10?
2021-05-19 Your 6 Strongest Practical Password Techniques, Ranked
2021-05-17 What’s the Difference Between an Email Account, an Email Address, an Email Program, and an Email Service?
2021-05-15 Security: It’s a Spectrum, Not a State
2021-05-14 How Do I Password Protect Email Attachments?
2021-05-13 Why Is My Zoom Video Breaking Up?
2021-05-12 How Do I Contact Outlook.com Customer Service?
2021-05-10 How Should I Back Up an Encrypted Disk?
2021-05-08 How to Tell What’s Running in the Background on Your PC
2021-05-07 How Do I Make Sure Windows is Really, Completely Up to Date?
2021-05-06 What Do I Do About Websites Bugging Me About Notifications?
2021-05-05 Why Does Email to Me Bounce with “Inbox Full”?
2021-05-03 How Do I Update Drivers on My Computer?
2021-05-01 How Do I Access Gmail Without Phone Verification?
2021-04-30 How Do I Make Sure I Don’t Have Malware?
2021-04-29 How Do I Get Off Email Lists I Don’t Want to be On?
2021-04-28 What Should I Do If I Accidentally Click on a Phishing Link?
2021-04-26 5 Reasons Your Closed Email Account Sends Spam
2021-04-24 How to Reinstall Windows 10 Without Media
2021-04-23 How Do I Switch Back to the Old Facebook Layout?
2021-04-23 Should I Take the Flash Update I’ve Been Offered?
2021-04-22 What’s the Best Place to Learn About Windows 10?
2021-04-21 Can Browser Extensions See My Bank Account?
2021-04-19 My External HDD Shows Not Formatted — But It Has All My Data!
2021-04-17 How Do I Remove Malware that Blocks Downloads
2021-04-16 Should Your Username be More Like a Password?
2021-04-15 What Comes After Terabytes?
2021-04-14 Can’t I Just Copy Everything to Back Up?
2021-04-12 How Pixels, DPI, Resolution, Picture Size, and File Size All Relate
2021-04-10 Why Is My Fan Running at High Speed?
2021-04-09 External Hard Disk for Backups – 8 Reasons They Are Your Best Option
2021-04-08 Setting up Windows 10 for Privacy
2021-04-07 The Easy-to-Avoid Two-Factor Loss Risk
2021-04-05 Is it Safe to Delete This File?
2021-04-04 Could a Built-in Tracking Device in My Laptop Detect My Tor Browsing History?
2021-04-03 How to Protect Your Cloud Storage and Backups from Ransomware
2021-04-02 Just What Is a Backup?
2021-04-01 How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?
2021-03-31 Facebook Privacy Settings 2021
2021-03-29 How Do I Tell If a Source is Reputable?
2021-03-27 Isn’t Storing Your Passwords In One Place a Security Risk?
2021-03-26 What’s a Disk Partition?
2021-03-25 Are Longer Passwords Better, Even If They’re Simpler?
2021-03-24 Yes, SMS Two-Factor Authentication is Broken; Use it Anyway
2021-03-22 9 Ways Your Account Can Be Compromised, Even with a Super-strong Password
2021-03-20 What’s an Incremental Backup?
2021-03-19 Should I Worry About Old Lost Email Accounts?
2021-03-18 The Start Button Is Missing and There’s No Taskbar. What Do I Do?
2021-03-17 Set Up Windows 10 Again with the Windows Out Of Box Experience (OOBE)
2021-03-15 Why Does Word Tell Me a Document Changed When It Hasn’t?
2021-03-13 Should I Always Sign Out of My Online Account?
2021-03-12 How Do I Protect My Laptop Data from Theft?
2021-03-11 What Backup Type Do I Want: Full, Incremental, or Differential?
2021-03-08 Testing Your Backups Is Critical
2021-03-06 What’s the Best Two-Factor Authentication Option?
2021-03-05 How Do I Back Up My WordPress Site?
2021-03-04 What’s the Difference Between a Clone and an Image?
2021-03-03 What if My OneDrive is Too Big for My Hard Drive?
2021-03-01 How Do I Send Free Anonymous Email?
2021-02-27 Back Up Your Email Using Thunderbird
2021-02-26 How Long Should I Keep Windows 10 Backups After Major Updates?
2021-02-25 What is an Image Backup?
2021-02-24 What Should I Do About the Changes to LastPass Free?
2021-02-22 Content Re-Use on Ask Leo!
2021-02-22 If It’s All Digital, Won’t You Lose It Anyway?
2021-02-19 Why I Bought My Wife a Mac, then a Chromebook, then a Mac
2021-02-18 3 Important Life Lessons from a 99-year-old Blogger
2021-02-17 Can Hotel Internet Traffic Be Sniffed?
2021-02-15 Is It Safe to Let Your Browser Remember Passwords?
2021-02-12 How Often Should I Reboot My Computer?
2021-02-11 What Can a Computer Thief See If I Password Protect My Windows Sign-in?
2021-02-10 Why Is My Computer Crashing Randomly?
2021-02-08 Should You Use the Free Backup Software that Comes with Some External Drives?
2021-02-05 How You Recover When Good Apps Go Bad
2021-02-04 Can I Get a Virus By Looking at an Email?
2021-02-03 Should I Avoid Windows Update? It Burned Me
2021-02-01 How to Get File Explorer to Display Details by Default
2021-01-29 Shop Online Safely: My Choice for the Best Free Virtual Credit Card
2021-01-28 What’s Up with WhatsApp Terms of Service?
2021-01-27 How to Back Up Photos and Never Lose Them Again: the Steps You Need to Take
2021-01-25 The Biggest Risk to Your Privacy Revealed
2021-01-22 Can I Have Different Passwords for YouTube and Gmail?
2021-01-21 Did My Bounced Message Get There?
2021-01-20 Why Password Managers are Safer than the Alternatives
2021-01-18 Dealing With Video Starts and Stops While Watching: Two Common Causes and Three Possible Solutions
2021-01-15 Is Passwordless Sign-in Safe?
2021-01-14 Are Deleted Emails Really Deleted?
2021-01-13 You’re Just Not That Interesting (Except When You Are)
2021-01-11 How Two-Factor Authentication Works
2021-01-08 Why Do Pictures in Email Sometimes Show as Attachments, and Sometimes in the Message?
2021-01-07 The Two Types of Cloud Data Threats and How You Protect Yourself
2021-01-06 Will Ransomware Encrypt Backups?
2021-01-04 Does an Open Wi-Fi Login Page Mean It’s Secure?
2021-01-02 2020’s Most Popular Articles
2021-01-01 Will Microsoft Close My Hotmail Account If I Don’t Sign In?

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