Is Windows 11 making your PC run slower? – Beware yet another very dangerous email scam
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Rick's Daily Tips Tech Update for Thursday, October 14, 2021.
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Today's Quick Tip....
This is (probably) why your PC is slower after installing Windows 11
If you recently updated a Windows 10 machine to Windows 11 and it seems to be running slower after the update, it isn't your imagination playing tricks on you. It really is running slower.
A bug in the Windows 11 software is causing some AMD Ryzen CPUs to run slower than they ran under Windows 10, and hundreds of thousands of unhappy PC owners noticed.
Microsoft quickly released a Windows Update to fix the problem, but guess what? The "fix" actually made the problem worse.
There really isn't much a tip that I can give you here except to sit tight and wait for Microsoft to release another update to fix the "fix".
Surely they'll get the next one right, right? Well, one can hope...
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The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips...
• Scam alert: Beware the dangerous ‘This Account Has Been Hacked!’ email scam
Another very dangerous email scam is making the rounds again. This post explains what to look for.
• Why you should mount your monitor vertically if you’re a blogger
Are you a blogger who spends lots of time researching and writing posts for your blog? If so, mounting your monitor in the portrait (vertical) orientation can really boost your productivity.
• Why you should (almost) always login to WordPress using an ‘Editor’ account
This one simple change can drastically reduce the chances of your blog being totally destroyed if a hacker ever manages to steal your WordPress login information.
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Today's post from 'My Daily Smile'...
Did you know there are at least 40 species of flying fish? Yes, really.
Did you know flying fish are an actual thing? Well, it's true, and there are over three dozen species of fish that legitimately fit that description.
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Tech news that caught my eye...
• Facebook's list of 'dangerous individuals and organizations' leaked
• Visible Cellular confirms account breaches, blames ‘outside sources’
• UK's NHS Covid Pass outage left travellers stranded
• Confused self-driving cars are flooding a normally quiet dead-end San Francisco street
• The U.S. is now officially the top destination for bitcoin miners
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