Phone Screen Not Responding to Touch? Try This Order
A frozen phone and a broken screen look identical for about thirty seconds. There is a way to tell them apart.
Charging Slowly? Read the Rate Instead of Guessing
Some of it is deliberate. On a laptop you can read the actual charge rate rather than guessing at the cause.
Monitor Randomly Goes Black? Check Two Timeouts First
Windows keeps two screen-off timers. On this PC they are 60 minutes and 4 minutes, which is why it feels random.
Android Phone Got Slow? Storage Is Not Memory
Google draws the line clearly, and knowing which side you are on decides whether anything you try will help.
Phone Showing SOS? It Is Not As Bad As It Looks
SOS means your carrier is unreachable but somebody else is. Apple says emergency calls still work.
Bluetooth Headphones Playing Up? Reset Them Properly
Pairing is stored at both ends. Removing the device in Windows clears one side and leaves the headphones holding the other.
Games Lagging on a PC That Should Handle Them?
One screen here runs at 144 Hz and another at 60. A game on the slower one is capped whatever the hardware can do.
DNS Server Not Responding? It Is Usually Your Router
The DNS server your PC uses is normally the box in the corner, not your provider. That changes where you look first.
Mac Slow to Start Up? Read the Login Items List
Slow after logging in, then normal, points at one screen. Apple keeps every self-starting app in a single list.
Mac Running Slowly? Apple Names Five Causes
Apple publishes the list and most people have never seen it. Free disk space is the answer for the majority.