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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 […]

Geek Note: This is a very special issue of It’s Geek To Me!  Read on to find out why. I know that many of you have been missing the column in the Northwest Florida Daily News, the Destin Log, and other publications in the (Florida) panhandle.  I know, because of the e-mails I’ve received from […]

Q: Cox Cable transition of emails to Yahoo email caused my unsent emails in my Outbox on Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max to disappear. Is there any way to retrieve those unsent emails from Cox or to find them on Yahoo’s email system?  I had unsent emails in my iPhone Outbox when Cox shut off […]

Q: This is about moving email from Cox to Yahoo. I moved everything I could to an Outlook email account before the Cox switch. I was going to run both for a while. When I went to setup Yahoo (using the old Cox email) they tried to force me to use Yahoo software on my […]

Q: Microsoft continually wants me to sign in when I’m accessing certain websites–for example, job boards, United Healthcare, even Canon Community, a help site for users of Canon cameras. The thing is, MS is asking for a password linked to a work account at a job I no longer have. If I try to sign […]

Q:  I am 78 and tech challenged. When I worked, we had an IT person backing up our work, so I never learned how to back up files. Now that I am on a home computer, I don’t know how to do a back-up. I have a thumb drive but don’t know if it needs […]