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Q: The power supply in my 16-year old computer died suddenly, and I decided I’d rather buy a new one than replace the bad component.  The new system has plenty of drive bays, and I have lots of spare cables from the old machine, so I plan to install the old drive in the new […]

Geek Note: Ever since the first issue of It’s Geek To Me published way back on July 26, 2007, I had a dream of making it to 1000 issues.  At the time, that seemed like a near-impossible goal, something so far into the future as to be nearly unimaginable.  Yet, in founding the column, I […]

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 […]