Michael Megowan   When I boot my computer from power off it always brings up a window asking if I want to boot into Windows 7 or Windows 10.  The Windows 7 choice doesn’t work and I have to choose Windows 10.  How do I get the computer to bypass this window and always go into Windows 10.

Tony Pizza   About an hour after the meeting, I got a call from my non-tech brother, whose computer wouldn’t boot after they had a power outage.  I told him no signal was because the computer wasn’t sending the video signal. I told him to turn the computer off and on, but that didn’t help. Told him to unplug and plug in the computer power cord. It worked, just like Bob G said.

Ian Fish   One of those occasional “things” is safely disposing of / recycling old hard drives.  I find myself with 3 outdated NAS devices, 1 of which is fried I think.   Is there somewhere I can take them to have data wiped and the parts recycled/scrapped securely?

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