{"id":22744,"date":"2021-12-26T08:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2021-12-26T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:41:59","slug":"special-holiday-edition-bonus-questions-answers-122621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/special-holiday-edition-bonus-questions-answers-122621\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Holiday Edition: Bonus Questions &#038; Answers &#8211; 122621"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Special Holiday Edition: Bonus Questions &amp; Answers &#8211; 122621<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/newyear.png\" alt=\"Happy Holidays - Happy New Year\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Wishing you and the ones you love&#8230; all the best in the new year!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. The holiday season is still with us &#8211; so today and next weekend, we&#8217;re publishing a special edition of our Bonus Questions and Answers series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sometimes the best tips and tricks are hidden in the questions and answers we publish. And rarely do we post questions and answers on this website. Today, we\u2019re featuring some of the questions and answers from past issues of our<a href=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/join.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> InfoAve Weekly<\/a> newsletters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These answers were selected at random from past InfoAve Weekly newsletters.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Vari wants to know how to save important emails in Gmail<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">HI, I am not sure if this is a suitable question for you both but I thought I would try! I would like to save some very important emails in Gmail and wonder what is the best way to do this. I would like them to be all in one folder and easily accessible. I have never done something like this before so not sure how easy it is or if it is possible. Sorry if this is a very basic question but I have not needed help with this before now so I hope you can help. Many thanks for all your wonderful newsletters and tips. Vari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Vari. Thanks so much for your kind comments!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can save any label (folder) in Gmail by using Google Takeout. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/backup-your-google-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read our article here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That article describes how to back up your entire Google account &#8211; but you can back up a specified Gmail label (folder) too. All of your Gmail emails are stored in the folder &#8220;All mail&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I hope this helps you!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vari wrote back: <em>&#8220;Thank you TC. Just what I wanted! I was sure you would have the answer!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Patty says her computer went incognito<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I woke up this morning and found my laptop telling me I had gone incognito. I cannot remember what this means or if it is something I need. What does it do? Is it a good thing to have? If not, how do I go back to whatever mode I had?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Patty. Computers don&#8217;t go Incognito, but browsers do. Google Chrome has an incognito mode &#8211; Firefox and Edge have &#8220;Private modes&#8221;. It just means your browser is not saving cookies or browsing history when you&#8217;re in Incognito mode (Chrome). Just close Chrome and reopen it &#8211; and it should reopen in normal mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Beverly is getting Blue Screens (BSODs)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hello EB &amp; TC. On three occasions lately, I have had a blue screen pop up that says Your device has run into a problem and needs to restart. We&#8217;re just collecting some error info, and then we&#8217;ll restart for you. For more information about this issue and possible fixes, visit https:\/\/www.windows.com\/stopcade. If you call a support person give them this info.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I failed to make note of the info the first time, but the second time it said&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Stop Code: page fault in the non-paged area,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What Failed: win32kfull.sys&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And the third time it said:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Stop Code: SYSTEM SERVICEEXCEPTION<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What Failed: eppwfp.sys.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Even though it said it would restart for me, it never did and I had to do a hard shut down and restart. Can you tell me what is going on? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Our answer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Beverly. Blue Screens are almost always caused by bad drivers. Make sure you have not installed any driver updater programs &#8211; intentionally or unintentionally via bundled freeware. But I&#8217;m skeptical of the origin of this message since the link it gives you leads to a &#8220;page not found&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I suggest that you uninstall any driver updater programs that are installed and then follow the instructions on this page on how to run SFC and DISM scans.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LJLRwH5Wh3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/using-sfc-and-dism-to-repair-windows\/\">Using SFC and DISM to Repair Windows<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Using SFC and DISM to Repair Windows&#8221; &#8212; Cloudeight InfoAve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/using-sfc-and-dism-to-repair-windows\/embed\/#?secret=7VzbBURPRj#?secret=LJLRwH5Wh3\" data-secret=\"LJLRwH5Wh3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I hope this helps you, Beverly.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Jane asks about the Windows 10 weather app<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Is it okay to pin the Win 10 weather app to the taskbar? Thanks, Jane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Jane. Windows 10&#8217;s Weather app is great. I have the Weather app pinned to my Start menu as well as my taskbar. If you use it every day like I do, pinning it to your taskbar is a smart thing to do. The Weather app is also included with Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jean needs to find her wireless network password<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I am moving, packing, etc. For years I have had my WIFI network password in one place. It was in a drawer in my writing desk. Everything in the writing desk was packed in two small boxes or so I thought. I now cannot find the envelope that contains the password. I am moving on Jan 4 and need the password to connect WIFI in the next place. Downloaded Nirsoft. Windows Defender tried to stop it, but I got over that hump. Extracted the files. Down at the bottom of Nirsoft&#8217;s Wireless Key view, 0 Keys are entered. But I do have a key and I do have a password.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When I attempt to install WIFI in the new place, I could use a new name and password but would rather not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I also tried the instructions you gave us using the command prompt. It said &#8220;The wireless autoconfiguration setting is not running. &#8221; I tried it twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Is there any other way to recover my password or should I just create a new one when the time comes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Jean. Good question. Many people got new smartphones, tablets, streaming devices for Christmas and they may also need to find their wireless passwords to set up their new internet-connected devices. So we posted this tip to remind folks there&#8217;s a really easy way to recover wireless passwords without using any 3rd-party software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-easily-find-your-wireless-password-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the article&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the bottom of that article, there is a link to another way to recover wireless passwords without using any third-party software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We hope this helps you, Jean.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Dotty has a mysterious user account on her login screen<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I first turn it on. in the lower-left corner are the two user accounts. There&#8217;s my account and then there&#8217;s an account called &#8220;Administrator&#8221;. I can&#8217;t remove this account because it does not show up in &#8220;Accounts&#8221; in settings. How do I get rid of it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Our answer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Dotty. That&#8217;s called a &#8220;Super Administrator&#8221; account. You can remove that account only one way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type COMMAND in taskbar search. When Command Prompt shows up in the search results, click on &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the prompt, in the command box, type this (exactly as shown).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Net user administrator \/active:no<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#8217;s it. The super administrator account will be gone, and you won&#8217;t see it on your login screen.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dotty wrote back:<em> &#8220;It worked. You are awesome. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year to you &amp; Darcy. Thank you!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ellen has problems with Edge<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the past 2-3 months, after Edge updates, when I want to access different websites, Edge takes a very long time to reach the sites and eventually, an on-screen message quickly flashes &#8221; This isn&#8217;t working right&#8230;Try clearing cookies (which I do very frequently) &#8230;Error&#8230;too many redirects&#8221;. Then, the desired website finally appears on the screen. This happens every day, many times every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I have tried researching the message, can find nothing like it and no remedy either. I hope you can recommend a solution. Thank you, Ellen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Ellen. This sounds to me like you have a bad extension installed or something corrupted Edge. The &#8220;Too many redirects&#8221; error sounds like a bad extension. I would recommend you reset Edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Click on the 3 dots at the top-right corner of Edge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. When &#8220;Settings&#8221; opens click on &#8220;Reset settings&#8221; (in the menu on the left).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. On the page that opens, click on the arrow to the right of &#8220;Restore settings to their default values&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4. You&#8217;ll see the following&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/reset-edge.png\" alt=\"Reset Edge Cloudeight InfoAve tips &amp; tricks\" width=\"441\" height=\"231\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on &#8220;Reset&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I recommend that after doing this you restart your computer and then try Edge again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I hope this helps you, Ellen.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Sandy continually has an online photo editor popping up in her browser<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">All of a sudden Pixlr Editor Express shows up. I googled it. It&#8217;s an online photo editor. How safe is it, and do you have any idea why it popped up on my computer? Thanks again as always.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Hi Sandy. Pixlr Editor Express seems to be an innocuous online photo editor. I just looked at it, but I didn&#8217;t test it. And I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s popping up on your computer. If it continues and clearing your browser history does not correct the issue, try resetting your browser. Resetting your browser removes (or disables) all your extensions, clears the browser history, and resets it to its default settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The fastest way is to reset your browser. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-resetting-most-popular-browsers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please see our article here<\/span><\/a> to learn how to reset your browser. This article covers Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We hope this helps you, Sandy.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Mary&#8217;s search box disappeared from her taskbar<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The search bar disappeared from the taskbar. I have searched for it many times and cannot find it. I even asked Microsoft and cannot get any answers. Can you help me with this? I am lost without it. Thank you for all your help every day and weekly. I would be lost without your newsletters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Mary. Right-click on your taskbar. Find &#8220;Search&#8221; on the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on the little &gt; (arrow) and a menu will appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Choose &#8220;Show search box&#8221; from the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See this screenshot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/ifnfoave\/images\/2021\/searchbox1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips\" width=\"474\" height=\"158\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And keep in mind, you can use always the Windows key + S shortcut to open a search box anytime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We hope this helps you.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Margaret wants to know how to use a special font in Thunderbird<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">How can download the Lucinda Calligraphy font into my Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail program?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Our answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Margaret. Lucinda Calligraphy is a Windows font, it comes with all versions of Windows 7, Windows 8x, and Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any Windows font should show up in Thunderbird in the font selector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Keep in mind that most Windows users will see this font, but those using Apple or Android devices won&#8217;t. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any time you use a font that is not installed on the recipient&#8217;s computer, they will not see the font &#8211; they will see whatever their default font is &#8211; on Windows 10 it&#8217;s Segoe UI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hope this helps you, Margaret.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Paul is suspicious of a scam<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Hi. I hope you can help me. In the last two days, I&#8217;ve gotten phone calls from a place called &#8221; Computer Services&#8221;. They said my account has been expired and that I should call them at the number at the end of the call. What Account? They indicated a charge has been put on my account of $399.00.The call sounded like it was computer-generated to me. The amount of $399.00 is for 5 years. I thought I knew a scam when I saw one, but this one if it is has me confused. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Our answer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Hi Paul. This is a scam. They can&#8217;t charge &#8220;your account&#8221; anything if you did not give them a credit card number &#8211; if you did give them a credit card number, call your credit card company ASAP and report you&#8217;ve been scammed and they&#8217;ll remove the charge and prevent them from charging anything again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you didn&#8217;t give them a credit card number, then just ignore the call. If it&#8217;s a cellphone you can block the number they&#8217;re calling from. If it&#8217;s a landline, call your telephone company and tell them about this and have them block the number.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You may also want to report the calls to local authorities. It&#8217;s illegal to threaten people or attempt to extort money or trick people into paying money for something they didn&#8217;t ask for or buy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Paul wrote back: <em>&#8220;Hi. Thank you for the quick reply to the question I had concerning the phone scam. I feel a lot better now. Thanks again. Paul&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Wait! Before you go\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Every week we help dozens of people with their computers without charge or any expectation of payment.\u00a0And we have helped many folks who have fallen for tech support scams or other scams designed to steal their money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And we now depend more on readers like you to help keep us going. 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