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Q: After President Trump’s speech on election integrity, I downloaded the first batch of the declassified documents on US elections which President Trump made available on the White House website. When I tried to open one, I received the error message “The destination path is too long.  Rename the Compressed (zipped) Folder and try again.”  […]

Q: How do mass e-mailers send me an email containing my exact email address in the FROM field? – William R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A: The answer to your question isn’t really as technical as it might seem at first, William.  First of all, in order for the spammer to send you mail at all, […]

Q: I’m having a persistent problem when I attempt to post an article from Fox News to Facebook. I frequently get a “404” error code but I have no clue on how to fix the problem.   – Ed R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A:  There is nothing quite like having a multi-billion-dollar social network tell […]

Geek Note: Continuing last week’s theme of “Unfinished Business” I have the following supplement to offer.  In Issue # 983, May 24, 2026, reader William R. was asking why his system rebooted, seemingly randomly, and I showed him how to use Windows Event Viewer to view the logs that Windows maintains about such events.  I […]

Geek Note: Today’s edition of It’s Geek To Me is what you might call an “Unfinished Business” issue.  In recent submissions, a couple of readers asked questions with “extra” parts that I simply didn’t have room to cover in that column.  So, let’s take care of one of these unfinished business issues now, shall we? […]

Q: Recently I have noticed (the last couple of weeks) that every time I want to print something, (anything) I have to save it, then print it then go back and delete it. What is going on?  – Spouse PeripheralBluewater Bay, Florida A: If you don’t recognize the name, this question was asked of me […]

Q: I use a password manager (NordPass) that helps with my sign-ins. It works pretty well. Apparently, I can also create temporary passwords so that my primary is not visible. I haven’t done that yet, but some of the spam I’m getting looks like the emails are similar to those temporary passwords — lots of […]

Q: You answered a question for me a couple of weeks ago (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. Issue #984, May 31, 2026).  I did as you requested and my Windows 11 is the Home edition. Confirmed this by going into Settings→About & scrolled down to About, then clicked Copy. Here’s what was copied:      Edition: Windows […]

Q: I created a restore point and installed Start11 v2, a utility that “lets you customize Windows 11’s start menu & taskbar to look & work more like older versions of Windows.”  Made no other changes to the machine. Subsequent to this installation I noticed some key strokes lag in social media page as well […]

Q: Expanding the paradigm to Geekdom into cell phones (if you can). My old iPhone 8 died as far as Verizon was concerned, rendering it to just a WiFi device. Consumer Cellular came along, sent me a mini-sim card, and voila, iPhone 8 works as a phone on their network with a new number. The […]