Recent content by timbo59

Thanks for the reply. I had thought of that (I've done it before with PC's) but there's a problem. The laptop in question isn't my regular one, but my wife's spare one from work - like many people during the COVID pandemic, she's been working from home for the last year or so, which is easy...

The laptop I've been using has gone into some kind of startup loop that I can't get out of no matter what I try. When I power up and key in the password I get the black error screen and two Windows Error Recovery screen options - start up, or start up repair. Either one of them gives me the...

I'm not up to speed on the latest tech with laptops, so I could use some help. I need to take a laptop with me to Nepal and it needs to be as light as possible because of the arduous nature of the trekking I'll be doing there, so I wanted to keep it to around 3lb or less. I was thinking of the...

Just popped up my computer this morning and found this annoying security ad pegged to Firefox in the top left hand corner. It's right over the text entry boxes for the search engine I use so it's really annoying and won't go away. I was going to simply click 'No Thanks' to get rid of it but...