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
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
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
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:
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,
I recently wrote this: Trouble Signing In To Facebook One commenter wanted to know if it was possible to reset Facebook so old friend’s posts would show up again. Short of deleting your account and starting up a new one, I don’t think a refresh
After a Firefox update, I noticed a problem with the browser interface being too large for my taste. I had this problem with Opera but the fix I applied with Opera didn’t work for Firefox. Read: Is Your Opera Interface Too Big I found a
A guy brought me his new laptop to set up for him. Then he came back because when he signed in to his Facebook account, it was behaving like he had just set up a new account even though he’d had one for years. No
Some people prefer the mouse to navigate and some the keyboard. I’m mostly a mouse person with a dash of keyboard shortcuts thrown in. If you prefer the keyboard here is a tip on using the Tab key to help navigate YouTube. First, go to
A couple of days ago I thought my printer was a goner. I have a Canon Pixma MX492 and I tried to print something but I got the error message suggesting my printer wasn’t on. I assumed it was because I could see the little
