A guy brought me his Chrome Book because the messenger on Facebook was acting very slow. When he clicked on a contact to open a conversation, it would take a few minutes for the messenger to get ready. Sometimes up to 5 minutes. He also […]
Like many visitors to Dave’s Computer Tips, I came across the website in December 2013, looking for a solution to a PC problem. Well, I found what I was looking for and then posted in the DCT forum where I was noticed by Dave Hartsock,
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The other day I was messing around on my Instagram account and it asked me for permission to access my camera. Since I’m using Instagram I gave them permission. This made me think that I might want to adjust the settings for the app. Also,
Audials One 2024.1 Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Audials has kindly offered our DCT readers a chance to win one of five licenses for their latest
Reimage and Restoro are notorious tech support scams that, after years of scamming victims, have finally been brought to justice, sort of. Reimage and Restoro are not separate entities but are one and the same. The Reimage scareware scam first came into being in 2014
The other day a customer gave me a laptop for repair, saying that her daughter had dropped it and it would no longer boot. The laptop in question is an HP Stream model 14-AX022LA of meagre specifications that includes a Celeron dual-core CPU, 4GB of
Two things VLC offers you are to save a snapshot or screenshot of a video and to record clips from a video or even an entire video if you want. One thing I like to do is to change the default save folders to the
Windows 10 Users Get Good News Windows has just released good news for those who want to keep Windows 10 a while longer and also for some users who could not upgrade because of a “Compatibility Hold”. Keeping Windows 10 If you are one of
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This last week my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S22 Android Phone stopped charging once it hit 85%. At first, we thought something was wrong with the cord or battery. After some research, we found out why this was happening to her device. It was a simple
Local Send is a free, open-source, cross-platform program for sending files across your local Wi-Fi network. How many times have you sent files to yourself over WhatsApp, email, and other applications? Heck, even Phone Link/Link To Windows is limited to only saving files from your
We just had an Internet/Phone/Cable blackout that started yesterday from around 6:30 PM to 9:30 AM this morning. Everything eventually came back online except the internet on my main computer. I tried connecting using different browsers but nothing. It was working on my other computers
As I mentioned in Part 1 of these articles, it seems that we were changing phones more often in 2015, perhaps because phones were cheaper. For example, an HTC One M9 would have cost around $650, an iPhone 6s between $400 and $500, and a
