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Best Buy seems to be the only big electronics retailer that remains.. Fry's followed CompUSA, TigerDirect, RadioShack, etc. Seems at this pace we'll...

Never made it into this area. Retail is shifting, that's for sure. We sell a 20lb bag of reptile excavator clay, add water and sculpt it with...

Philip, yes that is the exact webpage I found the settings for. Did not work, even though I just tested the password with the web browser email...

"App Password" is a bandaid to help legacy software work with MFA enabled accounts (multi factor authentiation). Because legacy (old, no longer...

If you have the correct mail server, user/password, ports settings in Outlook it should work, even without that "app password" I think. Have you...

Well the person I helped with their iPhone. We had to delete the account. Then on her PC I created the "App Password". Then we added the account back...

Not much of an Apple person, so I can't offer much help there. I do know that on iPhones' default mail client, some of the advanced mail settings...

Hi Philip, I did all that. But I just helped another person with an AOL email that she could not get on Apple Mail on her iPhone (an older one that...

Hi John, Why do you have to allow "unsafe applications" Hmm. When you set the Outlook email account, these days under "Control Panel > User...

If your computer is compromised, yes, you do have to worry. You can always do a virus scan, rootkit check, etc. Some linux tools are helpful, like:...

As far as I'm concerned, I am not the culprit. If my machine got compromised, how big is the problem? Do I have to worry about other computers,...

Lucky you. My first was a TRS-80 color computer from Radio Shack. No storage at all for about a year. Had to leave it on, or lose it. An old friend...

No, it wouldn't Easto. That may have worked with older spinning HD's In fact I tried it to be sure when I read your post. Thanks for taking the...

Anyone within range of your wifi can gain access to the router, or any PC on your network. They don't need to be close, just within range. They could...

said room-mate keeps resetting the router to factory default so it always runs with default user / pass. I configured it properly multiple times but...

Would have loved to, if it was just the wife and I. But had our daughter and her best friend that usually comes with us on vaca in FL....so...had to...

That's a lot of driving, heh. Should've stopped for a brew.. Maybe next time - St. Augustine is great, it's like 40 min from me. The beaches are...

I was down your way for a while. Had to drive back from FL....took 3x days, all the return flights last weekend got cancelled..and the rescheduled...

YSCat! It's been ages

Wow...memories. I took a Basic class back in high school, did it on the first big Apple computers, saving data on cassettes, and later the 5.25"...

Thanks all! Yeah, been a while!

Would passing a very strong magnet over them accomplish anything?

Wiping Windows is a pain if you lost files :/ You can always destroy them by throwing them in the microwave for 30 seconds, or lightly sauté them...

No vaccine for you! JK :)

I've tried both methods more than once and variations too, no luck. Sometimes some methods "seem" to work as they go about trying, even reporting...