Recent content by K7MEM

On my system, the ones that go to the "spam" the most are ".gmail.com" addresses. And they seem to deserve it. At least on the email addresses that I handle. I have two ."yahoo.com" and two ".gmail".com addresses. The ".gmail.com" addresses never get any spam, but one of the ."yahoo.com"...

The picture on the right is actually one of my relatives. At least, by marriage. That just goes to show you that, there's someone for everyone.

I use both Yahoo and Gmail. The Gmail accounts never see any spam. I send some test mail, now and then, but that's it. Only one of the Yahoo accounts gets any spam (2 to 3 a week). The spam I do get comes through a redirect in an old ".msn" account that my wife (RIP) had. I have tried to delete...

I find that pretty normal, if it is installing an update outside of my "active hours". I have my active hours set to 3:00 AM to 9:00 PM. However I have some pretty erratic usage hours, so it sometimes starts a update install while I am working at midnight. Then the download bothers my work...

Personally, I never liked the split keyboards. I found them to be too unstable and I often like to stretch my fingers to some non-standard reaches. I learned to type when I was in 7th grade (1962) and have been using a keyboard on computers since around 1967. I have gone from having to mash the...

I get that same error every time I shutdown my computer, without shutting down all applications. I have a tendency to leave my browser and a few apps running. Mostly, I just ignore it. It has never caused an issue. Sometimes the OS warns me, before it shuts down. I just tell it to shut down any way.

I'm running a HP laptop with the latest 23H2 update (KB5035853). My number pad keys seem to be operating correctly. In the non-number mode, the "ins" key, on my laptop, also appears to do nothing. In the number mode, the "ins" key inserts a "0". The "del" key, when enable, does a forward delete...

I installed KB5035853 on my 23H2 x64 laptop, on March 13. I haven't seen any issues. I have been running W11 for over 2 years and haven't had a single issue with any of the updates. Maybe I'm just lucky.

This doesn't exactly fix your problem the way you want but, I have a W10 desktop that I use with my radios. I also have a wireless mouse and keyboard. The keyboard and mouse both have an on/off switch. So I just turn them off and leave the desktop and monitor running. I could turn off the...

I have two Yahoo email accounts and two Gmail accounts. I seldom use the Gmail accounts, but check them every day. Maybe they get activity once a month, and that is usually some Google update or a test email from me. My main email account on Yahoo, gets some junk about one a month, but the spam...

For my computers, W11 and W10, I just use "OS Default". But then, I don't really know what the other selections offer and why I would choose them.

I have been using Windows 11 for about 2 years now. I don't care for Widgets, so I deleted them, a long time ago. I looked around and can't find any reference to a Widget app anywhere. However, every time I reboot, after a windows update, I see a Widget process in my background processes. I...

My laptop runs scans once or twice a week, without any manual intervention. It runs in the background without affecting my work and shows up on the Notification Bell. But, I don't remember where that setting is.

I do something similar, but don't have any notification issues. My HP laptop is completely up to date and connects to sites just fine. What does one of your links look like? I wrote a local HTML/Javascript page that has links to all my important web sites. If I want to get on my bank or credit...

On my laptop (HP 15-dw0xx) the "prt sc" key doesn't require any extra "alt" or "fn" button. It just copies what you want to the "clipboard". Then I can open a graphic utility and just paste it in. The graphic utility I use is IrfanView. So I can also use IrfanView to selectively clip from the...