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Q: My Win 7 system recently began to hang when I attempt to load/install updates. Last night when I selected shutdown, it said it would shutdown after updating. Sounded good. It downloaded one of 8 updates and shutdown. This morning upon start up it showed the update processing before allowing me to log on. Then […]

Q: I was wondering if I made the change from a Windows PC to a Mac how difficult it would be for me to recover and access my files such as word, excel, powerpoint and outlook mail. – John S. Niceville, Florida A:  Like so many questions that I get asked, there is no one […]

Q: Ever since I upgraded to Win10, I am forced to change the password for the administrator account periodically. I use the standard account almost all the time, several times a day. Occasionally, something asks for administrator privilege, and when I try to do so it says my administrator account password has expired and must […]

This is the second half of a 2-part issue discussing the large scale cyber-attack that occurred on October 21, 2016. If you missed part one, it is available on my website at ItsGeekToMe.co/columns/Issue-484. As I told you last week, achieving the data rate of over a terabyte/second that was used to take down Dyn would […]