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Q: I don’t recall when the change happened, but the “new” File Explorer in Windows 11 is driving me crazy. It sorts my files chronologically with these headings: “A long time ago;” “Earlier this year;” “Last month;” “Earlier this month;” “Yesterday.” It’s driving me crazy. I just want the “old” File Explorer back that listed […]

Q: On Yahoo email this morning, the first entry was an item named Harper Smith, with the small “Ad” in front of the subject line touting healthy food. Normally, a graphic precedes the name (Harper Smith in this case), but this had the usual check box. I should know better, but I opened the email […]

Q: I, for one would pay real money to purchase the e-book version (html or pdf) of the over 1,000 articles that you’ve published to date. Is that something you could easily compile and offer? – William R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A:  Could I do it?  I’m sure I could.  Easily?  Now that’s a different […]

Q:  I have seen a few ads lately about protection from wireless scanners and hackers who just walk by you on the street and steal your information from your wallet. No touching or pickpocketing, just a scan. The protection that is sold is the size of a credit card that slips into your wallet. You […]

Q: I have 70,508 photos strewn across 507 folders & sub-folders. From an efficiency of operations standpoint, meaning performance and bogging things down, does it matter if I have fewer folders or more folders for the same number of files? I’ve run duplicate photo finder & remover so I’m dealing w/single occurrences. Now I’m just […]

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 […]

Q: I am trying to unsubscribe from a company that sends me email from a list that I did previously sign up for, but I’m no longer interested. At the bottom of the initial screen I click on the “Unsubscribe” button that takes me to another screen that I thought would confirm my unsubscribe.  Instead, […]