I removed a hard drive from one of my computers. There was nothing wrong with it; I just put it in another computer. I had some shared folders on that drive that were still showing up in my Network so I decided to remove them. […]
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When I hover my mouse over a link in a webpage, the hyperlink information should pop up at the bottom of the screen, showing me the full web address. For some reason, it stopped working except for on the Speed Dial page. To Fix: Type
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So, have you ever wanted to hook up your phone to your computer and see the actual phone screen on your computer screen? Here’s how to do it. Note: These instructions are based on an Android Galaxy J3 (2018). You will need to: Enable USB
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You might get tired of looking at the same old VLC interface. Did you know you can change its skin? You can download a bunch of them here: VLC Skins You can view the thumbnails and download just the ones you want or download them
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I was writing one of my articles on an Android phone and I realized I used the word “click” instead of the more appropriate “tap”. I could have scanned down through the article and replaced every instance or use the Find And Replace option built
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My uncle gave me his old Android phone (Galaxy J3 2018). The built-in charge port is damaged so it’s almost impossible to keep a cord plugged in to charge it up. That means when this goes, it might never get charged up again. Later on,
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A woman brought me her HP laptop with Windows 10 because she couldn’t get Microsoft Edge to open. So I searched online and tried about a half-dozen different things and nothing worked. It wouldn’t even open in Safe Mode. She said something about a virus warning
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I’m not sure how I did it but I accidentally installed an app I didn’t even want on my Facebook account. I clicked like or share or something. I’m pleading temporary insanity. 🙂 Anyway, here’s how to remove unwanted apps. On Facebook, first, go into
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I was trying to watch a YouTube video from DavesComputerTips.com named How To Find Coupons On Amazon App when I got an error message: An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: a1K3kfyNeowOXxGB). The simple fix in my case was to refresh the browser.
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Sorry, no screenshots this time. A few days ago I was called because a guy’s laptop wouldn’t boot up. This was an HP. It seemed completely dead. Then I noticed a little light that came on where the power was plugged in and another little
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I have an issue with Thunderbird email pausing updates in RSS feeds. As I understand it, it does this automatically when it runs into errors fetching the updates. Why the developers thought that pausing the updates without any real explanation was the best course of
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I have two older Dell towers. One is a Dell Inspiron 531 with 2 GB RAM. The other is a Dell Inspiron 530 with 1 GB RAM. They both take DDR 2 RAM and I realized I had a bunch of 1 GB DDR2 RAM
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I was given a Dell Inspiron-530 Desktop. A Vista Home Basic, Intel Celeron CPU 450 @ 2.20 GHz, 288GB hard drive and 1GB RAM. It was an old desktop owned by a late neighbour. When I turned it on, it would give an error message:
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I have an account set up with our local lottery service. I can purchase lottery tickets online. They also have the equivalent of those scratch-off tickets turned into mini-games. The one I like is called Emoticollect Vacation Riches. When I tried to play the game,
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