Editor-in-Chief 903-662-8832 Do you get subscribed to stuff accidentally or unknowingly and don’t want to keep unsubscribing to everything? Here is a tip on how to automatically send notice to everyone to keep you off their lists. The trick is simple: Use your email vacation responder feature to send out an “unsubscribe” message to everyone who sends … Read more
This article is directed to entrepreneurs or any person interested in a new business or organization website and who is not familiar with the technology needed to set up such an official website. The terminology alone can be difficult. The following analogy may help. Various expenses to build a new home: Various expenses to build … Read more
Technology is moving very very quickly. While certain computer components do not change much, the over-all architectures of PCs have taken a huge leap in the last few years. Historically, it was the rave that a particular PC went from a Pentium 100 to a Pentium 200, and so on. Those days are now long … Read more
Microsoft 11 Gotchas To make it short and sweet, the main reasons to use Windows 11 are: Reasons NOT to upgrade to Windows 11 are: Nevertheless, Windows 11 will soon replace Windows 10 because: I swapped to win11 a few years back. It broke 2 of my games and the others saw lower fps. So … Read more
Operating System Version Details Version Build Number Windows 11 (22H2) 10.0.22621 Windows 11 c2023 (21H2) 10.0.22000 Windows 10 c2022 (22H2) 10.0.22???[4] Windows 10 c2021 (21H2) 10.0.19044 Windows 10 (21H1) 10.0.19043 Windows 10 (20H2) 10.0.19042 Windows 10 c2019 (2004) 10.0.19041 Windows 10 (1909) 10.0.18363 Windows 10 c2019 (1903) 10.0.18362 Windows 10 (1809) 10.0.17763 Windows 10 c2017 … Read more
When I attempt to visit bacomputer.net and certain other websites I get this message that the site is not secure. Does that mean the website is dangerous? NO. What it means is the website has chosen not to encrypt the data on it’s site. If you inspect the address line you will see either an … Read more
Applicability: You have been running Windows 7 and have newly migrated to Window 10 on one or more PCs; you still have variously formatted disk drives, some under Windows 7 and some under Windows 10. DANGER LEVEL: HIGH — Possible Loss of Entire Windows Installation Microsoft has quietly changed the underlying formatting of NTFS between … Read more
In a nutshell, B. A. Computer Services discourages the purchase of liquid ink-based printers for general printing purposes. Nonetheless, there are some good reasons to buy specialized ink-based printers, primarily related to photographic printing. Ink-based printers are sometimes offered free with purchase of a computer for the simple fact the printer itself is not the … Read more
For further information on what to do, see also the article McAfee PHISHING SCAM ALERT. In this particular case, we blocked the sender, and forwarded the email to phishing@paypal.com. It is also important to note what we did not do: We DID NOT PANIC. We DID NOT CALL THE PHONE NUMBER in the email. We … Read more
In today’s online world, nearly every company, every website, every electronic service, wants to assign you an account consisting of a login account name and a password. The concept seems simple enough, for the first account, but then you sign up for another service, and they assign yet another login account name, and associate yet … Read more
