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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?