A woman brought me her new laptop because her browser, Microsoft Edge, was being blocked with a message claiming her system was infected and to call 1-800-XXX-XXXX. It’s just a scam. I’m surprised that this thing is still around. I used a small program called […]
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Warning, proceed with caution. The website in question might be compromised by a hacker. A woman called me and wanted me to print up a few sewing patterns for her. But when I tried to get to the website, I got a warning message that
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I use the Thunderbird email program and this morning I noticed two unusual marks in my newsfeed accounts. In front of the account name was a pink triangle with an exclamation point inside it. I right-clicked on one account listed and I noticed on the
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I like to keep photos of my property in case it ever gets lost or stolen. I also create contact sheets where I put multiple images on a single page. You can do this manually but there is a quicker way using XnView. I’m just
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My uncle got in touch with me awhile ago. He had put ink into his printer but it wouldn’t work. In his case, he forgot to take off the protective plastic strips from the ink cartridge. But someone suggested to him that he needed his
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The Folding@Home mission according to their website: Folding@home is a project focused on disease research. The problems we’re solving require so many computer calculations and we need your help to find the cures! Basically, you can donate some of your computing power to help fight
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I was trying to use my scanner on my Canon PIXMA MX492 when I got an error message saying that my scanner software Cannot communicate with the scanner. I usually go to Start – Canon Utilities – IJ Scan Utility. This opens the little scanning
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A woman bought me her digital picture frame and wanted me to put some of her pictures on it from two flash drives she had. That was easy enough. By plugging the frame into my computer through USB, it showed up as a removable drive
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How many Search bars does a browser need? The answer, Zero. The Vivaldi browser has two very noticeable Search bars: one on the Speed Dial page and the other on the right-hand side of the address bar. I like them to both gone and figured
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I wrote before about an online cropping service, video-crop.com, but their site is down, and they don’t seem to be any hurry to fix it. So here is another one to try: ezGIF. If you follow the above link, you’ll go directly to their cropping
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Did you ever want to play your Android games/Apps on your PC? To do this you’ll need a program like BlueStacks. Download, install and start it up. I first get an Improve performance pop-up. If you get it, click on the Check FAQ button. If
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I have been liking and sharing davescomputertips.com posts for a while now and suddenly I get a notice from Facebook claiming it is Spam. The email just said, ”Your post goes against our Community Standards so only you can see it. See options.” and there
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This is using the 4K Video Downloader. Every now and then when I’m downloading a bunch of videos from YouTube, one of them will not finish downloading. No error messages, it just keeps going but never finishes. It would be nice to have some kind
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My uncle called me because he had put new ink in his printer and it wouldn’t work. So I gave him a few suggestions, and it was the first one that worked. I told him to take out the cartridges and put them in again,
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