I’ve been setting up the new Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager on some WordPress websites. And I came across a weird problem. After I added the Google Tag Manager code to the websites (using one of the Google Analytics plug-ins), I found that I could no longer view the front end of the […]
Tips for keeping your password safe and secure We have loads of website we log in to these days – I have somewhere around a thousand. That’s a thousand possible places that hackers could get my password from and try to use elsewhere. So I have to keep my passwords safe and secure. Why password […]
Microsoft Office Professional 365 fails to activate One of my computers has just installed the latest “Windows Feature Update version 1083”. Upon reboot, every time I tried to use one of the Office 365 applications, the activation wizard popped up – why I don’t know. Clicking on next bought up an error – “We couldn’t […]
Google Chrome to mark HTTP websites as “not secure” Google have recently announced that all HTTP websites will be marked as insecure by Google Chrome. Google have been pushing HTTPS (Secure HTTP) for a few years now by, amongst other things, penalising HTTP websites in search results. They are now taking this one step further […]
How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips Ransomware attacks – an especially sinister type of malware often delivered through spear-phishing emails that lock up valuable data assets and demand a ransom to release them – are a rapidly-growing security threat. We all remember what happened with the Wannacry attack on the NHS back in 2017. […]
Windows 10 won’t shut down properly Recently, my Lenovo laptop (running Windows 10) has started failing to shut down properly. When I click on “Power/Shut down” the laptop shuts down and then reboots back to the login screen. I tried shutting it down just using the power button, but exactly the same happened. After a […]
OneDive stops synchronising after Windows 10 upgrade I’ve recently allowed 2 of my Windows 7 computers to upgrade to Windows 10 After a few days, I realised that files I was creating and modifying in my OneDrive folder were not synchronising with any of my other Windows computers (a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows […]