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I think a lot of mail providers are requiring something like this. On Yahoo and I think GMail they call it "allow less secure apps" (they're looking...

Office 2016/2019 is not subscription based, I prefer it to Office 365 as well. I don't think the version of Office would make much difference, seems...

They prefer not to go to the annual subscription required for Office 365.

Speaking of old computer parts resources......something had me doing a Google search for an old computer part. Just for conversation purposes...I...

Get 'em on a supported version of Outlook.

Wow, I had almost forgot about TigerDirect. Back then I worked for a Logistics company and we shipped for virtually everyone in Southern and...

Interesting... Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, the last handful of years it started to slide into disrepair. Back in the day they had about 15 open checkout stations and they still had a...

I went into Frys once a couple years ago.. Not very busy. But it was a mess. Not at all organized they had little of everything scattered...

I agree.

So I just finished connecting to this friend remotely. I verified the server info, it was already all correct. I then created an App Password on...

Fry's just meant a lot to me. Back in the day when I first started here at SG was when I was totally geeking out on computers. Going to Fry's was...

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...