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386 The Norton and McAfee billing scam

I’m still seeing a LOT of these showing up, and clients still contact me to see if they are legitimate. Here’s how to identify this scam.   There’s a good chance you’ve gotten one of these emails at some point over the past several months. The scammers have been sending out a LOT of them – sometimes [...] Read more » The post The Norton and McAfee billing scam first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress

385 How to download all of your Google Photos images

Do you have all your photos automatically saved to your Google Photos account? What if you want to download all those photos and save them to your computer? Here’s how.   Storing all of your photos on Google Photos is a good thing. It’s kind of like an automatic backup for the photos you take on your [...] Read more » The post How to download all of your Google Photos images first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress

Blocking Windows 11 from coming in

If your computer is currently running Windows 10, like most Windows computers currently are, there’s a new major update that’s just been released – it’s Windows 11. It’s not something you want yet. For quite some time, Microsoft said that the last version of Windows would be Windows 10. They said they would just continue to [...] Read more » The post Blocking Windows 11 from coming in first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress

Check your hard drive health every day – automatically

If your hard drive starts to show signs of failure, you want to know that as soon as possible. Here’s how to get that alert nice and early. When someone says to you, “I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?” what do you say? For me, I am a “bad news [...] Read more » The post Check your hard drive health every day – automatically first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress

How to do a Safety Check using Chrome

Did you know that Google Chrome can run a quick Safety Check on your computer? Here’s how to do it.   Open Chrome, and click the 3 dots in the top right, and choose Settings. Then, scroll down to the Safety Check session and click on “Check now”. Chrome will take a few seconds and check for: Is Chrome up [...] Read more » The post How to do a Safety Check using Chrome first appeared on The Computer Tutor.Download Ashford for WordPress