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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 […]

Q: Recently I have been getting annoying McAfee pop ups. How can I stop them? They popup on Chrome and Edge.  They state “VIRUS FOUND” or Critical Error found virus. or System Error, etc. – John P.Crestview, Florida A: Well, John, have you considered that maybe McAfee is just doing its job?  Perhaps it found […]

Q: Because our local newspaper raised the rates so high for a printed edition, we decided to go digital with them.  We even purchased a 2nd laptop so two of us could read the paper without having to wait on one another.  The “older” HP opens up right away while the much, much newer one […]