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Q: I accidently deleted something that was in my Spam folder and then realized that I need it. Can I get this back?  – Spouse PeripheralBlue Water Bay, Florida A:  The simple answer to the question as asked is “no”.  But, there are almost never any simple answers when it comes to computers.  There is […]

Q: I have a homemade desktop with an AMD FX-4130 Quad core processor @ 3.80 GHz, 64-bit Win 10 Pro, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD. My problem is that when I power on or wake up the unit, I usually get a message indicating “Preparing Automatic Repair’ which results in a blue screen indicating […]

Q: Some time ago – weeks or maybe even months ago – you published an article which spoke to getting rid of the annoying boxes which appear on the lower right side of the screen in an attempt to sell their products or programs. i.e. Malwarebytes, PDF Suite, Grammarly, DashBoard and others. One can easily […]

Q: Yesterday my Windows 10 computer had a blue screen crash and restart. Unfortunately the restart only went as far as the scenic photo image screen and then stopped short of allowing me to access the login screen. My repeated attempts to left click mouse, Ctrl/Alt/Del, Esc Key & Win Key taps only caused the […]

Q: I recently noticed that the list of emails in my iPad were different from my desktop. I always thought as I deleted an email from one device, the other would be the same. Today I noticed that they were different.  What’s going on?  – Spouse PeripheralBluewater Bay, Florida A: Regular readers will recognize the […]

Q: I have been using my daughter’s online newspaper account for about two years. For the past two months, the website won’t accept what I am certain is the correct username and password on either my iPhone or iPad using Safari. No one else in the family has this problem. My wife accesses it every […]

Q: I am running the latest version of Windows 10 and am using their Edge browser. I have had my opening page set to duckduckgo.com for search. The latest update to Edge reset my opening page to their Bing search engine and I attempted to reset the opening page to duckduckgo.com as I had before. […]

Q: I just learned that Windows 11 will require a TPM module in the computer before the update can be installed. What is it and how can it be installed in a laptop?  I am running an HP Pavillion 64-bit laptop that is probably at least 5 years old. It has 6GB of RAM and […]

Q: I have a Dell Inspiration desktop with an HDMI port. I’ve connected a TV it and am not happy with the results. The monitor display is not the same as the TV display. I have to “set up” the computer for the site, etc, I want and then disconnect the Monitor from the Computer. […]

Q: I tried submitting this before, but if you responded I did not see it, so here goes again. I handed down my older computer to my wife, who uses it in our home office primarily to play games and an occasional check of Facebook. Several years ago, whenever we started her computer, we would […]