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The column below was originally published in the May 14, 2015 , Windows Secrets newsletter. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new…
The column below was originally published in the May 10, 2012 Windows Secrets. Today, it supplements a new column scheduled for the March 11, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…
The column below was originally published in the June 23, 2016 Windows Secrets. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…
The column below was originally published in the August 18, 2016, Windows Secrets newsletter. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…
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Closing the lid on a furiously-churning PC is kind of asking for trouble. Depending on how your laptop/notebook is set up, closing the lid might put the system into sleep/suspend mode; or hybrid sleep mode; or hibernation; or could invoke full power-off. If closing the lid kills power to the PC, you could end up…
A bad sector is a small area on the hard drive’s surface that’s unreliable or unreadable; and that the drive’s own software, or the PC’s operating system, has marked as off limits so no new data will be written there. By itself, it’s nothing to worry about. For example, one sector on a typical NTFS-formatted…
Reader Emily Long sent in this urgent note — from her smartphone, I presume! “A couple of hours ago I spilled water on my laptop, I’ve turned it off, dried the keyboard and it is currently sitting keyboard down while I wait for any possible water to drain out. Will it be fine when it…
No, of course it’s not safe! But if you’re patient, you can make it safe. Here’s how: First, scan the old, infected system using an external, self-contained, bootable, DVD- or flashdrive-based anti-malware tool. (Examples; many are free.) Boot and run the old PC from the anti-malware DVD or flash drive — not from its infected…
This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for a while, you can read it for free, here. Here’s what’s inside issue 16.8.0: LANGALIST: Microsoft’s massive, four-month-long series of Windows update screw-ups and outages has left some readers’ PCs in the weeds. See if you’re affected in “Windows Update errors cause OS-version problems.” Plus: Whole-disk encryption options…