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Steve Alexander

Steve Alexander

Columnist/Reporter at Star Tribune

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Steve Alexander
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Alexander: Turn off the more complex encryption in Windows 11 Pro

Readers react to our tech columnist’s advice on turning off automatic encryption on Windows 11.
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Alexander: Making sure that deleted Android phone pictures are real...

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Alexander: Why Microsoft Word might stop printing, and how to fix it

Part of the problem may be the age of the computer.
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Alexander: Why a Mac cursor may disappear and how to fix it

There are many reasons a cursor blips out on a Mac, and the remedies are usually simple.
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Alexander: Keep copies of data on your computer and in the cloud

Online storage services also help keep data on your PC.
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Alexander: The merits of swapping a PC’s hard drive for an SSD memory

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Alexander: Finding out if your e-mail was received is harder than i...

The nice way is to ask for a response. The less nice way is to use a tracking pixel.

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Alexander: Making Outlook sync with your iPhone after an upgrade

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Alexander: Deleting unwanted Android photos synced from Google app

You can get rid of the photos by changing a few phone settings.
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Why some photos are missing from e-mails or websites

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Alexander: Why a hard drive looks full but isn’t

My Windows 10 PC keeps telling me that I’m nearly out of storage space on my Seagate 1-terabyte Expansion Portable Hard Drive. But when I look at the external drive’s content menu, I see that it’s nowhere near full. What’s wrong?