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Q: I back up my computer files every week. How long should I save my computer’s “back up files”? And, how do I delete all the oldest copies? My back up files are stored by defaulted to a 3 TB Western Digital Book external hard drive. This drive is now full because of so many […]

Happy 9th Anniversary, It’s Geek To Me!  The column first published in the Northwest Florida Daily News on July 26, 2007. That was 470 issues ago, and we’re still going strong. You can read all the way back to Issue #1 in the column archive on my website over at ItsGeekToMe.co (not .com!). To all […]

Q: I have a Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows 7 with Outlook 10, also use Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. Strangely, the characters I type are converted to random numbers instead of letters, and it only happens on the “internet” (web sites) but not on the Outlook or financial (Quicken) or MS Office applications that […]

Q: I have Windows 10 on an HP w1707 desktop, connected to a HP Photosmart D110 printer. When I try to print an e-mail in Outlook or Gmail, it brings up that black printer box, and says “Nothing was sent to print. Open a document and print again.” This occurs whether I use the three […]

Microsoft is looming large in tech news this month, and there are a couple of issues that I want to cover, so I am going to deviate from I.G.T.M.’s normal Q&A format this week. This week will be all “A”, and the “Qs” will return next week. Microsoft settled a small claims court case this […]