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A few bits (8 to be exact) make up a byte. A byte is approximately 1 letter or 1 number. (Some special characters require 2 or more bytes.) In the Metric system for computerese, each step up is a 1000 times larger. Thus 1 MB is 1000 KBs. Let’s keep this article simple and stick … Read more

After researching this on the Microsoft site, it was determined that they have misleading information in their question and answer section. Microsoft Word Online CAN indeed open RTF files just the same as DOC files. However, the file type association for .rtf files is incorrectly set *on the online version* on microsoft.com site. By default, … Read more

The news market is a-buzz with AI everything! Here at B. A. Computer Services we want to spread a practical balanced tone. Tabloids — which nearly describes every news outlet these days — use extreme examples of Artificial Intelligence. The examples are not completely fiction, they merely are not useful to most people in everyday … Read more

We regret to inform our clients that we have elected to discontinue taking payments directly through Cash App because of difficulties with that processor. We will continue to offer many other payment options, including check acceptance, money orders, cash, and most standard credit cards. Card payments may be taken in the office or at http://bacomputer.net/payments.

The scenario is you have two different login names on the same computer. You have forgotten the password to one of them, but you can log into the other one. How do you proceed? Unfortunately, we are not able to give general instructions about this over the phone or on our website for a couple … Read more

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

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