I wrote before about transferring bookmarks by exporting them to another computer. Read here: Transfer Chrome Bookmarks To Another Computer There is a second way to do this and that is by syncing them through your Google account. First, sign in to your Google account […]
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I got a call from a woman who was getting a warning about a possible virus on her system. It was one of those scammer’s ads that tries to convince you that your system is infected. Two things to keep in mind: 1. Never call
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I recently wrote about setting up a basic home network. Read here: How To Set Up A Home Network If you got your network set up and working, you might want to add your printer to the network. First, you have to make sure your
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Do this on all the computers in your network. Set Profile Account Password First set a password on your profile account in Windows if you don’t have one already. If you are going to be sharing files over a network, a little bit of security
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It’s been a weird last few days for my network. Basically, it disappeared completely. None of my computers could read each other. After following some suggestions online that didn’t work I decided to reset my network. Just to be sure, I reset the network on
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I got another laptop (not a new one). Someone I know was getting rid of all their old tech and gave me one of their laptops. It’s a Gateway MS2285 (currently Win 10). After resetting and fiddling with all the settings, it was still as
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My sister had an HP Media Center Laptop at one time that had the ability to handle two hard drives. Most laptops don’t come with that option but you can still add a second hard drive by buying a special hard drive caddy that lets
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The last couple of days my Gateway desktop has been acting up. The screen freezes and then the fan starts getting noisier. So when I managed to reboot it, I went to the Event Manager and clicked on Administrative Events. And behold the long list
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I got a notification from Opera that an update was available. You get a little red dot on the side of the O logo in the top left-hand corner of the browser. When you click on it, it opens the menu and in the menu,
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Software updates– sometimes features get added, deleted, or moved around. Opera has made some changes to the reset option of its browser. I wrote about the reset feature before: Read here: How To Reset Opera Fix Keyboard Shortcuts If your browser is up to date,
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DISM according to Microsoft’s own site, and I quote: DISM: Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a command-line tool that can be used to service and prepare Windows images, including those used for Windows PE, Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Windows Setup. DISM can be used to
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Not really a fan of online storage but I finally bit the bullet and decided to upload a few things to Google Drive. If you have a Google account, you automatically have access to 15 GB of storage on Google Drive. So the first thing
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My Uncle has an Imation 1×1 Duplicator, a CD/DVD copier. And it’s been acting up lately, in other words, not making copies. It had one job. He brought it over to see if I can fix it. So I fooled around with the settings and
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Download Unknown Devices from: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/unknown_devices.html I recently mentioned buying my sister’s old tower which led to a problem — not enough places to plug it in on my router. I only have four ports on my router, three taken up by three other towers, and
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