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Q: This may be under your pay grade.  How do people handle the crossword puzzle on the e-paper?  When the puzzle is 2 columns it is ok to print as a ‘fit to page’, but when it is a bigger puzzle that makes it so small it cannot be read or write in the little […]

Q: When I download any .pdf file it tries to open in word. I know I have some setting wrong. How do I change it? – Larry T.Fort Walton Beach, Florida A:  This is a simple file association error, Larry.  Windows keeps a list of known file extensions in the registry, and each one is […]

Geek Note: Merry Christmas week, Geeks!  As It’s Geek To Me is about to enter another year of bringing answers, (hopefully) a little fun and a good read along the way, I trust that as you receive gifts of new technology to baffle and confound you, that you will turn to me, your humble Geek […]

Q: I am using Outlook to send and receive emails. It does not show all emails that are in my inbox. If, for instance, I search my inbox for a particular sender I will be presented emails that are not otherwise visible to me. Why is this and more importantly how do I fix this? […]

Q: A couple of days ago when I reviewed a just-received credit card bill, there was an unexpected $69.99 charge from Microsoft. The credit card company provided the originator’s telephone number. That started a 4-hour ordeal of different phone numbers and web sites. Finally, I got through to Joy in the Philippines who explained it […]

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 […]