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Geek Note:  This week, I received multiple reader e-mails asking about issue #787, which was supposed to publish the week of August 21-27, but which apparently didn’t make it into at least one of the newspapers in which it normally appears. If you were denied your weekly dose of Geekdom, I sincerely apologize.  I assure […]

Q: Hello! I remain a dedicated reader of all your columns.  Since downloading a Microsoft update over a year ago I have had problems with my system starting and running slow. Disk check on C: drive shows no problem. Running “sfc /scannow” shows 34% completion before failure. Running “DISM /Cleanup Image /Scanhealth” fails after 54%, […]

Q: My question is about email storage, Gmail in particular. Gmail is, as everyone knows, watching people’s email storage most likely in hopes of beginning an incremental charge for stored or undeleted emails.  I get a “Gmail almost full” warning every week or so which prompts me to dump my junk into trash and then […]

Q: Dear Geek, I have a tower running Windows 10. Windows Update tells me that the PC doesn’t meet minimum requirements to run Windows 11. PC Health Check tells me my CPU i7-7700@3.60 GHz does not support Windows 11. I called Dell fully expecting them to sell me another CPU, but they made it clear […]

Q: Thanks for answering my question (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #778, June 19-25, 2022). The “tracert” worked and helped with some of my questions. The time to the first server was <1 ms and 19 ms.  Then the problems start several ‘Request timed out’ then a few more location in 39 ms 37ms 67 ms 65 […]

“Need a GEEK?  We got one for you!”  That was the headline splashed across the front page of a now-defunct magazine insert called NEXT, that was part of the Thursday, July 26, 2007 edition of the Northwest Florida Daily News.  It was inside that magazine that the very first edition of It’s Geek to Me […]

Geek Note: This week and next, I am celebrating the 15th anniversary of my little humble Q&A column.  What started on a whim after a popular syndicated columnist decided to retire has grown up to garner a reasonable local following, and although it’s never been picked up for syndication, has appeared in various newspapers across […]

Q: My son has a computer that he put together from various parts he ordered including an MSI motherboard. He is operating on Windows 10 and was trying to change the Realtek High Definition Audio to High Definition Audio Device. There was no sound so he changed it back. Now he gets a popping sound […]

Q: In this week’s question, (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #770, April 24-30, 2022) I wonder if the problem could be a defective YouTube program? If so, an uninstall and reinstall might fix the problem.  You could copy and paste the YouTube URL that will not play and send it to yourself via email and then try […]

Geek Note: Looks like today is a “follow-up” issue, where readers close the books on my answers to previous columns. • • •  Q: Dear Geek, in reference to your response to me in #723 (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #723, May 30, 2021) and another reply of yours in today’s column, (Geek Note: I.G.T.M. #769, April […]