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I’m going to take a break from answering reader questions this week to explain the hows and whys of the recent large scale cyber-attack that affected east-coast United States users of some of the largest sites on the worldwide web. I’ve received a lot of e-mail recently that leads me to believe that even you, […]

Q: In answering a question recently (I.G.T.M. #474, August 21-27, 2016), you told the questioner that he should replace the Windows Vista operating system. Your comment seemed to imply that there was a security issue. I too have Windows Vista in my computer (a Gateway lap top). I would appreciate a few word concerning the […]

Q: I generally read all your columns in our paper and learn so much just reading them. But I have never seen this particular subject: My father, who is 84 years old, is forever having problems with his computer. I live 800 miles from him. This is his link to the world for him since […]

Q: You recently replied to a writer that s/he should discard the ten-year-old Vista immediately. Last March I bought a Dell which came with Windows 10. After two days I disconnected and began using my old Vista. Earlier this month I bought a flash drive, copied my emails, documents, etc. and loaded them into Windows […]

  Q: I upgraded to windows 10 from 7. My computer doesn’t recognize d drive or e drive. I insert disk, nothing happens.  Virtual disk manager cannot find file. Device SCSI\Disk&Ven_&Prod_\4&14b0e2e7&0&010000 was configured. – Denise T. Mossy Head, Florida A:  This looks to me like an installation that either locked up, or was otherwise interrupted […]