All Entries (by date)

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2017-09-14 What the Equifax Breach Means to You
2017-09-13 Restoring a File from an EaseUS Todo Image Backup
2017-09-09 Why Don’t Anti-malware Tools Work Better?
2017-09-07 Restoring an Image Using EaseUS Todo
2017-08-31 Full? Incremental? Differential? What Kind of Backup Do I Want?
2017-08-30 Recovering from Ransomware with an Online Backup
2017-08-25 Just What Is a Backup, Anyway?
2017-08-24 Creating an EaseUS Todo Emergency Disk
2017-08-23 Is a Microsoft Office Subscription Worth It?
2017-08-18 Creating a Backup Image Using EaseUS Todo Free
2017-08-17 How Do I Edit a Reply?
2017-08-16 The Four Characteristics of Computer Speed
2017-08-14 Hacking into someone else’s account without their permission is wrong.
2017-08-11 How Can I Tell If a Website is Safe?
2017-08-10 Recuva: a Free, Easy Undelete and File Recovery Tool
2017-08-09 Recover Deleted Files in OneDrive
2017-08-04 Why Can’t I Just Use One Password Everywhere?
2017-08-03 Reinstalling Windows 10 From Windows 10: “Reset This PC”
2017-08-02 Using OneDrive for Nearly Continuous Backup
2017-07-28 I Enabled Two-Factor Authentication and Now My Email Program Can’t Log In
2017-07-27 When I Use Start-Run, Why Does a Window Just Flash and Disappear?
2017-07-26 Restoring Files with File History
2017-07-21 Is Copyright Still an Issue If Something’s Not Available Anywhere?
2017-07-20 My Machine Won’t Boot, How Do I Get at Its Files?
2017-07-19 Restore Individual Files from a Windows Image Backup
2017-07-14 When Tech Drives You Crazy, Don’t Make the Problem Worse
2017-07-13 Does a Lapsed Anti-malware Tool Leave an Open Door for Malware?
2017-07-12 Restoring an Image Backup Using Windows 10’s Built-In Backup
2017-07-07 Enable File History in Windows 10
2017-07-06 Enabling Google Two-Factor Authentication
2017-07-05 How Should I Password Protect an External Drive?
2017-06-30 Why Does Email with a Lot of BCC’ed Recipients Bounce?
2017-06-29 How Do I Hack Someone’s Account?
2017-06-28 How Safe is Kaspersky Internet Security?
2017-06-23 Yes, You Should Give Google Your Mobile Number
2017-06-22 Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive
2017-06-21 How Do I Know If My Computer Has Been Compromised?
2017-06-16 Creating a Backup Image Using Windows’ Built-in Backup
2017-06-15 How Do I Create a Shortcut that Bypasses UAC to a Program Needing Administrative Access?
2017-06-14 How Do I Get a Program to Auto-start When I Sign in to Windows?
2017-06-09 Pinboard – Never Lose Bookmarks Again
2017-06-08 I’ve Been Told My Computer Has a Virus, But My Anti-Malware Program Doesn’t Remove It. What Do I Do?
2017-06-07 What’s the Difference Between a “Trojan Horse”, a “Worm”, and a “Virus”?
2017-06-02 Can I Really Get Malware by Just Looking at Email?
2017-06-01 What’s This Confirmation Request I Got When I Emailed Someone?
2017-05-31 Someone’s Sending from My Email Address! How Do I Stop Them?!
2017-05-26 What’s a “Zero-Day” Attack?
2017-05-25 How Do I Fix “Invalid System Disk” Error?
2017-05-24 Can Everything I Do Online Be Monitored at My Router?
2017-05-19 Supercookies and Evercookies: Resistance is Futile
2017-05-18 Google Remembers More than You Realize
2017-05-17 What’s a Screen Shot and How Do I Make One?
2017-05-12 What Good is Incognito Mode?
2017-05-11 What Is DRM?
2017-05-09 Why Microsoft’s Response to the Windows Defender Zero Day was Spot-On
2017-05-06 Why SMS Two-Factor Is Better than No Two-Factor at All
2017-05-05 How Should I Store My Backup Laptop?
2017-05-04 Will Microsoft Stop Forcing Windows 10 Updates?
2017-05-03 How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive?
2017-04-28 Are There Hidden Files that Save Every Keystroke I’ve Ever Typed?
2017-04-27 How Does Secure Delete Work?
2017-04-26 Is It Time to Start Using an Adblocker?
2017-04-21 Sometimes the Threat Is in the Hardware
2017-04-20 How Do I Protect Myself from Other Computers on My Local Network?
2017-04-19 What VPN Should I Use?
2017-04-15 12 Steps To Keep from Getting Your Account Hacked
2017-04-14 How Does a VPN Protect Me?
2017-04-13 What’s the Difference Between Spam and Junk Mail?
2017-04-12 Get the Windows 10 Creators Update Now, If You Like
2017-04-12 How Do I Encrypt a Hard Drive Using VeraCrypt?
2017-04-09 Let’s Talk About Lastpass
2017-04-07 The Internet Is Forever, Except When It’s Not
2017-04-06 Opting In and Opting Out of Email
2017-04-05 My Chromebook-only Trip
2017-04-04 Posting Quotes
2017-04-02 Is There Really A Reason to Hide From Your ISP using a VPN?
2017-03-31 Why Does Email Sometimes Take So Long to Be Delivered?
2017-03-30 How Do I Upgrade Windows When I Can’t Actually “Upgrade”?
2017-03-29 The Biggest Risk to Your Privacy
2017-03-24 My Printer Prints Too Small. What Can I Do?
2017-03-23 Should I Defragment My SSD or USB Flash Drives?
2017-03-22 How Do I Protect Myself from My ISP?
2017-03-17 How Do I Make the Taskbar Smaller or Larger?
2017-03-16 Walking Away From Your Computer
2017-03-15 Why is My Screensaver Asking for a Password, and How Do I Fix That?
2017-03-09 Offline Anti-Malware Tools
2017-03-08 Are Free Email Services Worth It?
2017-03-04 Email: Save Everything So You Can Delete More
2017-03-03 How Can One Service Take Down So Much?
2017-03-02 Windows Defender Offline in Windows 10
2017-03-01 Every Application Adds Risk
2017-02-24 My Inbox is Empty. Yours?
2017-02-23 Privacy Begins with the Operating System
2017-02-22 How Much Can I Trust Information on the Internet?
2017-02-17 What are the Differences Between an Email Account, Address, Program, and Service?
2017-02-16 Using BitLocker Without a TPM
2017-02-15 CCleaner, a Windows Cleaning Tool
2017-02-10 What is Cloud Computing?
2017-02-09 Can I Still Get a Hotmail Email Address?
2017-02-08 Adjust the Size of What’s on Your Screen in Windows 10
2017-02-03 Should I Run CHKDSK on My SSD?
2017-02-02 How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System?
2017-02-01 My ISP Went Under; How Do I Recover My Email and Email Address?
2017-01-27 Is it Safe to Allow Remote Access to My Machine?
2017-01-26 How Do I Encrypt Email?
2017-01-25 Vulnerable Points on the Path to Privacy
2017-01-20 How Do I Find Good Local Computer Help?
2017-01-19 Why Is My Mail to this Person Not Getting Through?
2017-01-18 Change the Search Engine in Microsoft Edge
2017-01-13 Remove Adobe’s Stealth Chrome Extension
2017-01-12 How do I Copy Photos from My Phone to My PC?
2017-01-11 What Does It Mean for a Source to be “Reputable”?
2017-01-06 How Should I Back Up an Encrypted Hard Disk?
2017-01-05 Why Do Ads Follow Me Around the Internet?
2017-01-04 2016’s Most Popular Articles
2017-01-01 How Do I Change or Delete my Patreon Subscription?

2016-12-31 To Video? Or Not to Video?
2016-12-29 Is There a Way to List All Programs Installed on My Computer?
2016-12-28 What if My Security Software Vendor Gets Hacked?
2016-12-23 Get Rid of Cortana Completely
2016-12-22 Backup and Restore the Registry Using System Restore
2016-12-21 Four Options for XP Die-hards
2016-12-18 You Can’t Un-Ring a Bell
2016-12-15 How Do I Disable Cortana?
2016-12-14 How Do I Recover a Wi-Fi Password When I’m Not Connected?
2016-12-10 One of the Reasons I Think Backups Are SO Important
2016-12-09 Recover a Remembered Wi-Fi Password
2016-12-08 The Ideal Path of an Ask Leo! Article
2016-12-08 Are Human Relations Skills Important in Tech?
2016-12-07 How Do I Move My OneDrive Folder?
2016-12-03 Focusing on Security and Privacy
2016-12-01 How Can a PIN Be As Secure as a Password?
2016-11-30 An Easy-to-Miss Source of PUPs
2016-11-25 How Windows 10 Changed Setting Default Programs
2016-11-24 Giving Thanks
2016-11-23 Turn Off Fast Startup in Windows 10
2016-11-21 Adding a Best-Of Auto Responder
2016-11-19 What is Event Viewer, and Why Does It Have So Many Errors?
2016-11-17 How Do I Get the Password for a Computer I Purchased at a Garage Sale?
2016-11-16 Should I Accept My Security Software’s Recommendation of What to Remove?
2016-11-14 Could My Car Get Hacked?
2016-11-12 Adding a Video Tip
2016-11-12 Using Handbrake
2016-11-11 The Apps I Installed on My New Phone
2016-11-10 Is it Safe to Share My Internet Connection with My Neighbor?
2016-11-09 How Do I Block Neighboring Wireless Networks?
2016-11-05 Avoiding Tech Support Scams
2016-11-04 How Do I Downgrade from Windows 8 or 10 to Windows 7?
2016-11-03 How Do I Prevent My Internet-connected Devices From Being Hijacked?
2016-11-02 Why CAPTCHA?
2016-10-29 The Perils of Digital Archiving
2016-10-28 Ask Leo! Patreon FAQ
2016-10-27 Are Automatic Updates a Good Thing?
2016-10-26 When I Visit a Web Site, Can the Server Identify Me?
2016-10-25 Getting the Patron List
2016-10-24 Ask Leo! Style Guide
2016-10-22 Why I’m Keeping My Note 7 (For a While)
2016-10-21 Recover Your Microsoft Account Later by Setting Up a Recovery Code NOW
2016-10-20 How to Manage Taskbar Space
2016-10-19 Extending Your Network With A Wireless Access Point
2016-10-15 Why UEFI?
2016-10-14 How Not To Get Locked Out of Your Microsoft Account While Travelling
2016-10-13 Patron Onboarding
2016-10-13 What Is the System File Checker, and How Do I Run It?
2016-10-12 So Just Why Are Manhole Covers Round?
2016-10-10 Use YouTube to generate Close Captions from Transcripts
2016-10-08 Uploading to YouTube
2016-10-08 Dealing with Windows Update and Windows 10
2016-10-07 How Do Outlook and Outlook.com Relate?
2016-10-06 What Is a “Microsoft Account”?
2016-10-05 How Long Should I Keep My Backups?
2016-10-01 Networking is Hard
2016-09-29 What’s the Difference Between “Image” and “Clone”?
2016-09-28 Online Shopping – Just How Safe Is It?
2016-09-24 Are You Always Learning?
2016-09-23 Why Doesn’t My External Drive Appear When Plugged In?
2016-09-22 Can I Tell If Email I Sent Has Been Read by the Recipient?
2016-09-21 Is There a Way to Know Where a URL-shortened URL Is Going to Take Me?
2016-09-17 What Is Patreon?
2016-09-15 How Do I Remove Myself From the Search Engines?
2016-09-14 Where Do I Report Windows 10 Issues?
2016-09-10 A Couple of Travel Thoughts
2016-09-08 How do I reformat and reinstall Windows?
2016-09-07 How Do I Repair Microsoft Office?
2016-09-03 Ten Tips for Fall
2016-09-01 How Do I Recover from a Crash During an Uninstall?
2016-08-31 How Do I Keep Windows Update from Rebooting While I Use My Computer?
2016-08-27 Charging an Annual Subscription for Windows? Nope.
2016-08-25 Why is My Backup Program Saying There’s Not Enough Space on System Reserved Partitions?
2016-08-24 What’s the Difference Between an App and Application?
2016-08-19 How Do I Encrypt a Disk?
2016-08-18 How Do I Encrypt a Folder?
2016-08-17 How Do I Encrypt a File?
2016-08-13 Is It Time To Remove GWX Control Panel?
2016-08-11 Why Don’t I Get Sound from My Computer? (A Checklist)
2016-08-10 Why can’t I boot from an SD card?
2016-08-05 Why, or How, do Files Become Corrupt?
2016-08-04 Installing the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
2016-08-03 What Happens When I Mark Something as Spam?
2016-07-28 Can I Use a Power Supply with a Higher Wattage Rating on my Laptop?
2016-07-27 How Do I Get my Name, Title and Other Information to Show at the Bottom of Every Message I Send?
2016-07-22 If I Could Tell You Only One Thing…
2016-07-21 Can a Defrag Cause Data Loss?
2016-07-20 What Should I Do When My Account Is Involved In A Breach?
2016-07-17 Ask Leo! Live – July 17th, 2016
2016-07-15 More Focus on Windows 10
2016-07-14 Saving Your Free Windows 10 Upgrade For Later
2016-07-13 Why Can’t We Use https for Everything?
2016-07-09 You Can’t Assume the Cloud Has Your Back
2016-07-08 Should I Upgrade to Windows 10?
2016-07-07 Does Getting Porn Spam Mean You’ve Been Surfing Porn Sites?
2016-07-06 What Does “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate” Mean, and What Should I Do?
2016-07-02 What It Means to be “Platform Agnostic”
2016-07-01 Where Do You Get Your Answers?
2016-06-30 How Do I Avoid Ransomware?
2016-06-29 Facebook Privacy
2016-06-24 Privacy? What Privacy?
2016-06-23 What Should I Back Up?
2016-06-22 How Can I Keep Data on My Laptop Secure?
2016-06-18 An Update to My Internet Safety Book
2016-06-17 Internet Safety: 7 Steps to Keeping Your Computer Safe on the Internet
2016-06-16 A One Step Way to Lose Your Account … Forever
2016-06-15 My Computer was Stolen. It’s Password Protected; What Files Can the Thieves See?
2016-06-11 Edge Versus Internet Explorer
2016-06-10 Are Password Managers Safe?
2016-06-09 Two-Factor Authentication Keeps the Hackers Out
2016-06-08 What Does “Unsupported Software” Really Mean?
2016-06-05 The Binary “Base Race”
2016-06-03 How to Back Up Photos and Never Lose Them Again
2016-06-01 Can Hotel Internet Traffic Be Sniffed?
2016-06-01 The Wrong Way to Change Your Email Address
2016-05-28 Windows 10 Behaves Like Malware
2016-05-27 Will Using an On-Screen Keyboard Stop Keyloggers?
2016-05-26 How Do I Test Backups?
2016-05-25 How Do I Become a Computer Programmer?
2016-05-20 What’s the Risk of Using Unsupported Software?
2016-05-19 I Got Burned by Windows Update. Should I Just Avoid It?
2016-05-18 How Do I Remove a Virus If It Prevents Me from Downloading or Installing Anything?
2016-05-14 What’s Up WIth Microsoft and Email?
2016-05-12 4 Alternatives for Windows Live Mail and Outlook.com
2016-05-12 Why Wouldn’t an Exploit be Caught by My Anti-malware Tools?
2016-05-11 What Backup Program Should I Use?
2016-05-07 Clearing Up Some Windows 10 Misconceptions
2016-05-05 7 Steps to a Secure Router
2016-05-04 Can’t I Just Copy Everything Instead of Using a Backup Program?
2016-04-29 How Do I Contact Outlook.com Customer Service?
2016-04-28 EaseUS Todo Gave Me An Error on an “Unknown Partition”, What Should I Do?
2016-04-27 How Do I Remove PUPs, Foistware, Drive-bys, Toolbars, and Other Annoying Things I Never Wanted?
2016-04-23 Ad Free Outlook.com – With Support?
2016-04-21 How Do I Remove Malware?
2016-04-20 Email Hacked? 7 Things You Need to do NOW
2016-04-16 We Need To Talk…
2016-04-15 The Risk of Searching for a Support Phone Number
2016-04-14 How Do I Search a Site That Has No Search Box?
2016-04-13 If I Had to Do It Over…
2016-04-09 If Everything Just Worked…
2016-04-07 What Security Software Do You Recommend?
2016-04-06 Stop Spreading Manure
2016-04-02 On Aging and Being “Too Old”
2016-03-31 How Should I Back Up My Hard Drive with Several Partitions to an External Drive?
2016-03-30 Why Is It So Important to Use a Different Password on Every Site?
2016-03-25 Why Did You Recommend Software that Doesn’t Work?
2016-03-24 Is the Cloud Dangerous?
2016-03-23 How Do I Use an Open Wi-Fi Hotspot Safely?
2016-03-19 Ask Leo! & Creative Commons
2016-03-17 How do I Make Sure that Windows is Up-To-Date?
2016-03-16 Is an Outbound Firewall Needed?
2016-03-11 How Do I Fix Windows Update?
2016-03-10 Why Do Websites Use Pop-ups?
2016-03-09 A Peek Behind My Backup Curtain
2016-03-06 In Search of Perfect Security
2016-03-03 How Do I Back Up My Computer?
2016-03-02 It Pays to be Skeptical
2016-02-28 The Death of the Security Question
2016-02-25 Can I Count on Mail to a Bad Address Bouncing Back?
2016-02-24 Will I Lose My Email If I Don’t Check It For a While?
2016-02-21 Encryption, Padlocks, and Back Doors
2016-02-18 Ninite – Install Popular Free Applications Quickly, Easily, and Securely
2016-02-17 How Do I Tell Which Program Is Using So Much Memory?
2016-02-13 An Update to My Internet Security Book
2016-02-11 What Is An Email Quota and What Does “Over Quota” Mean?
2016-02-07 Another reason I don’t do negative reviews
2016-02-04 Will Ransomware Encrypt Backups?
2016-02-03 What’s a browser cache? How do I clear it? Why would I want to?
2016-01-30 Introducing the Ask Leo! Forum
2016-01-28 Why Am I Getting a “Delivery Status Notification (Delay)” on an Email I Sent?
2016-01-27 Do I Need this Add-on Recommended by this Software Installation?
2016-01-23 Stopping Spam is Harder Than You Think
2016-01-21 What’s the Difference Between a MAC Address and an IP Address?
2016-01-20 Is my Facebook account being hacked?
2016-01-17 Possible LastPass Phishing Vulnerability
2016-01-16 Let’s Talk About Ransomware32
2016-01-14 Is it illegal to download torrent files?
2016-01-13 Is MAC address filtering a viable wireless security option?
2016-01-09 Does “end of support” mean “end of life”?
2016-01-07 How do I burn ISO files?
2016-01-06 Where can I download Windows?
2016-01-03 What Your Email Address Says About You
2016-01-01 Block Windows 10 With GWX Control Panel

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