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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 […]

Q: On my Windows 11 machine, I’m admin.  Copy/paste works; however, clipboard history does NOT work. When I press [WinKey]+V to see history, I get nothing. I’ve attached a screen grab from Settings→System→Clipboard so you can see for yourself.  – William R.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A:  Ah, Reader William!  We meet again!  My fellow Geeks, […]

Q: I’m not an aluminum foil hat kinda guy but . . . I’m noticing that my system reboots all on its own now and then, surely a Windows 11 update sort of thing. That said, is there a way to see any boot logs so I can confirm my suspicion? When I worked for […]

Geek Note:  This issue of It’s Geek To Me is a special “Tech News You Can Use” edition, filled with tech stories that almost surely apply to you, but that you might have missed if you don’t follow tech news as closely as I do.  It should go without saying that if you have any […]