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As I write this, it’s Thanksgiving week, and I’m hot and heavy into the middle of building the Geek Lights on the Corner – my annual Christmas lights and music show.  The show is well known for fighting mightily against attempts to bring it online, and this year has been no exception.  Because of that, […]

Q: I’m getting the dreaded “Explorer.EXE, This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action . . . ” The only file types I’ve been attempting to open IN Windows Explorer are *.jpg, *.png, & *.docx, something I’ve been routinely doing without problem for some time. No changes have been […]

Q: Greetings, my Geeks!  I want to thank the people who have been interacting with me on the column’s Facebook page this week as I seek new directions for the column in the wake of being removed from the major local newspapers in the column’s home market.  For any news professionals reading this, the column […]

Q: When viewing “Vera” and a few other video series on YouTube, the video periodically zooms way in making the picture illegible. These also have left/right swapped, although that may be a different problem.  This problem shows on my Dell laptop as well as while using a MI Box S which is Android based.  – […]

Q: A medical site we use and need was updated about a week ago. Tacked onto the download was McAfee Security Scan Plus. No idea why. I don’t like McAfee products because they tend to use an extraordinary amount of resources. I tried to uninstall it, and a marketing-oriented popup came up, with no obvious […]

Q: How do we stop the pop out ads from the right of our screen every few minutes for something on Skype without uninstalling the program altogether. This is how we keep in touch with our sons and our grandchildren.  – Vickie R.Niceville, Florida A:  Before I get to an actual answer for your question, […]

Q: I’ve been a long-time subscriber to the Northwest Florida Daily News e-edition and the paper version before that. I read the paper with my Apple iPads which include almost every version. It’s always been unfriendly to view but recently it seems worse. When I use my Icon to load it will start to load […]

Q: I am a Cox cable customer and thinking of going with rival cable competitor because of the high cost of service. The only thing that kept me with Cox was that Cox was my email service provider and I didn’t want to change my email address which I had for over 30 years. However, […]

Q: I recently changed the name of my computer from Dell 3050 to Dell 3020. Before renaming the computer I set it to boot without password or pin. I can fix that if I can remove the second login issue (removing the Dell 3020 user name) using netplwiz but I can’t do that without signing […]

Q: Help me Mr. Geek, you’re my only hope. That’s a little overdramatic, but I do have a tech problem I’m hoping you can help me with. I have a Steam Deck, a Linux-based hand-held gaming PC that has a design similar to a Nintendo Switch. The Deck is designed to work with Steam’s own […]