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Q: Occasionally, my laptop (Lenovo) presents a red-and-white McAfee set of windows that won’t allow me to just erase them. I either have to get out of Edge, my usual connection, or hit the power button to get back to normal. I never have used McAfee. I have checked my task manager and control panel […]

Q: Besides starting my Windows 11 laptop in Safe Mode, how can I configure it to open with minimal “stuff” running? My File Explorer seems to choke/freeze, requiring restart, after I select too many files at once to say sort all by a certain file attribute (date taken in the example of photographs). I’m thinking […]

Q: I am trying to unsubscribe from a company that sends me email from a list that I did previously sign up for, but I’m no longer interested. At the bottom of the initial screen I click on the “Unsubscribe” button that takes me to another screen that I thought would confirm my unsubscribe.  Instead, […]

Q: I was recently looking at an online store that I had never visited before and at the beginning of the process a box came up that said, “Cookie Preference Center”. There was about a paragraph of jargon about providing the visitors with a customized and personalized experience. Here are the choices:   – Targeting […]

Q: In my email folders (Gmail) I have noticed that I get emails from companies that I did not sign up for to receive their advertisements or whatever they want me to know about. How did that happen? Is someone that I did sign up with selling my info? If so, how do I stop […]

Q: After President Trump’s speech on election integrity, I downloaded the first batch of the declassified documents on US elections which President Trump made available on the White House website. When I tried to open one, I received the error message “The destination path is too long.  Rename the Compressed (zipped) Folder and try again.”  […]

Q: How do mass e-mailers send me an email containing my exact email address in the FROM field? – William R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A: The answer to your question isn’t really as technical as it might seem at first, William.  First of all, in order for the spammer to send you mail at all, […]

Q: I’m having a persistent problem when I attempt to post an article from Fox News to Facebook. I frequently get a “404” error code but I have no clue on how to fix the problem.   – Ed R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A:  There is nothing quite like having a multi-billion-dollar social network tell […]

Geek Note: Continuing last week’s theme of “Unfinished Business” I have the following supplement to offer.  In Issue # 983, May 24, 2026, reader William R. was asking why his system rebooted, seemingly randomly, and I showed him how to use Windows Event Viewer to view the logs that Windows maintains about such events.  I […]

Geek Note: Today’s edition of It’s Geek To Me is what you might call an “Unfinished Business” issue.  In recent submissions, a couple of readers asked questions with “extra” parts that I simply didn’t have room to cover in that column.  So, let’s take care of one of these unfinished business issues now, shall we? […]