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So, it finally happened this week.  My queue of questions reached a quantity of zero, leaving me with literally no questions to answer.  I have plenty of tech knowledge to pass along though, so I’ll pull from there and see what comes out.  In the meantime, please – if you’re sitting on an unasked question, […]

Q: I think I did something very stupid yesterday. I received an unsolicited request from Microsoft Authenticator on my Android phone for my personal Hotmail account. Now, I receive Authenticator requests from my work email periodically to sign into those accounts which are valid. So, I thought this was the same thing. I tried to […]

Q: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, 2022). The solution at the time did not work for me, but oh well, on to the next. Now, I would like to ask a question about a couple of IP commands. I […]

Q: Hello from our fair city: Niceville, yes it is… I have a question that I’m hoping you can help with. I’m running Windows 10 with the latest updates. I use the Chrome browser and the VLC app.  Every time the system reboots, the default browser (and other default apps) are changed to Microsoft apps. […]

Q: My wife and I both have Apple iPhones, hers is a 14 and mine is a 16 Pro. We also share the same, identical Apple ID credentials. We can obviously call each other but FaceTime does not work as “call failed” always pops up. I assume this happens because we share the same Apple […]