A woman brought me two HP laptops to check over for her. Both had Windows 10 but were not compatible with Windows 11. Otherwise, they were both in pretty good shape. A problem on one of the computers was a constantly high CPU and disk usage, […]
I never tried to get a Netflix account because I assumed you needed a credit card to sign up. Something I’m lacking. But as it turns out, you don’t. You can do it with “Netflix gift cards”. My Brother recently gave me a card, so
My uncle wanted to sell something on Facebook Marketplace. He wanted me to post it on Facebook for him. So, I signed into his account. Down the left-hand menu, click on “Marketplace.” If you don’t see it, click the “See more” option. Then scroll down
The power has been blinking on and off all morning. A woman called because she was getting an error on her TV screen after the power came back on. It would first say E126 and then 8888. I believe she is still using a “Motorola
I tried to print something on my HP OfficeJet 3830, and the paper would not feed through the printer. Research online indicated it was probably because of dirty rollers. Depending on your make and model, cleaning the rollers is no easy task because you don’t
When I try to select a photo to upload to Twitter, instead of the select the pictures to upload dialogue box that you would normally expect, I get this band of pictures at the bottom of the browser screen. It wouldn’t be so bad except
I tried to open the VLC app but had to type my password repeatedly. It was accurate, but it wouldn’t go through. It gets like this now and then. Then there is the torture of using a remote to type in usernames and passwords. My
I wrote about this before, but using a lower quality video capture device called “Easycap”. Read here: How To Record From Cable To Computer Using OBS Studio I recently bought an HD Video Capture USB device called a “Guermok Video Capture Card” from Amazon. They
I received this message from my Opera browser on two separate computers. The message read: “The extension upgrade requires additional permissions. Go to the extension manager to accept the upgrade.” Then, an option to click reads “Go to Extensions”. Clicking on it sends you to
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I recently wrote about recording a video from an Android cable box to my PC using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). The final video was good quality, and I only had one issue. It was recorded on TV, which means there was a lot of advertising,
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Recorded from TV means there is a lot of advertising, so I looked for a way to cut out the ads. I settled on using a program that I’ve used before called “Avidemux”. Remove The Ads Open the program and click on “Open File”. Select
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I have a Gateway desktop on my network with a couple of hard drives in it, which I use as a backup system. Yesterday, I turned it on, but it wouldn’t boot up. It made one beep and then went to the Gateway Logo. It
A guy called me and claimed he “couldn’t get anything on his computer”. That can be translated in so many ways. Usually, it means, “I can’t get on Facebook”. I went to his home, and his problem was that he had lost his internet. He
A guy came to me with his Chromebook. On Facebook Messenger (Chrome browser), he had no scroll bar, so he couldn’t scroll back to see older messages with someone he was chatting with. I cleared out the temporary files, reset the browser, disabled the extensions,
