Lisa Toth Two displays: display #2 is not fully filled. There is about 3″ of black space on each side. Also there is a selection in display settings for “extend these displays”. What does that mean?
Lisa Toth Some sites I like to visit are “unavailable right now.” Anyone having that issue?
Fred Krueger I did not know the purpose of the extra copies of the TOE were for spreading the word about DIPSUG until reading the article by Bob Dinsmore.
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Andy Toth I have a surface pro 7. It has a display defect and will be returned. How do I wipe my information from the hard drive and leave the OS intact? Can I wipe the entire drive and reinstall the original OS? Where do I find the original OS?
Gregory Wilson I picked a complex password, but a hacker still got in. How do I prevent brute force RDP server hack?
Tony Pizza Using amazon Echo, I often listen to a radio station in New York, CBS-FM. Sometimes I hear commercials for things in California, like Universal Studios, even the CHP, and others. Are they targeted to my IP address?
News Item: T-Mobile Data Breach Exposes Customer’s Personal and Financial Info
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News Item: Microsoft Reveals a New Design for the Windows 10 Start Menu
News Item: Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You
News Item: US anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act is a backdoor to end end-to-end encryption
News Item: Microsoft, Google Offer Free Remote Work Tools Due to Coronavirus
Lisa Toth Should I leave my computer on the charger since I use it a lot or is it better to unplug it when I am done or overnight.
Fred Krueger Once a month I get a report from Google on every place I have been the previous month. Don’t know what too think of this.
Fred Krueger I am looking at small laptops or tablets, and I am wondering if the Surface Pro LTE is worth the price over the Surface Pro without the LTE?
Fred Krueger About cord cutting, The way I understand it so far is we still need the cord for internet but can do away with paying for almost every thing else. Is this somewhat correct or am I missing something?
Fred Krueger At the club meeting there was some mention of the latest Windows update, I looked in update history and all I see are updates for malicious removal tool for January and February
News Item: Google Cleans Play Store of Nearly 600 Apps for Ad Policy Violation
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News Item: Credit Card Skimmer Found on Nine Sites, Researchers Ignored
News Item: Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux Now In Public Preview
Sandy Tsutsui-Trujillo While in Las Vegas some fast talking guy gave me a “free” screensaver. I agreed as mine had 3 cracks. I got suspicious because he asked if I did banking from my phone and he put his next to mine. He was startled when I said no don’t. Was I correct to be suspicious?
Lisa Toth How do I pull down files from OneDrive? How can I go to OneDrive and see what is there? It seems there may be a lot of stuff that is not on my computer any more.
Sandy Tsutsui-Trujillo How can I protect my data in the future?
Tony Pizza I thought I’d give Edge a try instead of Chrome. But it would sometimes close without warning, and once it hung up using massive resources so that the computer barely responded. Had to use task manager to close it. How are Vivaldi and Opera? Or another browser?
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News Item: Amex, Chase Fraud Protection Emails Used as Clever Phishing Lure
News Item: Mac malware is growing faster than for Windows
News Item: Firefox hopes to ‘eradicate’ TLS 1 & 1.1
Fred Krueger Recently my Android phone did a software update and I noticed that it had 387 apps and programs to update. What is all this?
Bobby Taylor What’s the difference between Linux and Windows?
Lisa Toth Since Tuesday I keep finding my mouse right handed. I always have my mice left handed.
John Weigle Is there a way in the VLC media player to slow the speed down? I think I could get more words at a time when I transcribe.
Andy Toth I am trying to copy OneDrive to a flash drive. I did not have adequate space on the removable drive to copy three folders but there was plenty of room to copy the one at a time plus many more files.
I’ve been mis-reading the error message. The software folder on OneDrive is 15 GB, free space on removable drive is 58 GB. I get the message that I need another 10 GB on OneDrive to transfer the data, but all my data on OneDrive is only 27 GB.
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News Item: Dear Ashley Madison user. I know everything about you. Pay up or else.
News Item: Coronavirus Phishing Attacks Are Actively Targeting the US
News Item: Russia Threatens Facebook, Twitter With Fines, Demands User Data
News Item: FBI Warns of Rise in Social Security Scams Spoofing Its Phone Number
Lisa Toth I have been using my new Microsoft Surface as a tablet and now and then a computer. I noticed that sometimes in Outlook (office 365) the ribbon I used to see at the top with options like delete and reply etc. is sometimes on the right side of my incoming message and sometimes nonexistent.
News Item: Windows 7 PC on January 15, 2020 Get Full-screen Warning
News Item: Microsoft to add ‘Walkie Talkie’ voice calls, to Teams
News Item: YouTube decides it’s easier to treat all watchers of kids’ content as kids
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News Item: Google Chrome Will Support Windows 7 After End of Life
News Item: Google Removed Over 1,700 Malware Infected Apps from Play Store
News Item: Microsoft Phishing Scam Exploits Iran Cyberattack Scare