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Gad, I hadn’t questioned that the 3-1/2″ floppy-disc icon’s (*) meaning might have changed in Win11 from simply Save to Save As!  (* Get your nurse to raise your hand if you remember those.)

I guess it’s about time Save As became consolidated with Save, or did that happen years ago?

Also report these calls to the Federal Trade Commission. Use the “FTC Complaint Assistant https://apps.irs.gov/app/scripts/exit.jsp?dest=https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#%26panel1-1” on FTC.gov. If you don’t have caller ID, tell the scammer you have an emergency right now and have to call him/her right back; report the number you’re given. Nomorobo is fine for personal screening, but we need a communitywide response to really squelch this.

Dear Lincoln,
Only three reasons prevented me from rating your July 4th “survival guide” as superb instead of great:
1) The IRS “e-Services” sub-website allows me to print its reports *only* within IE, not Chrome. (I’m a CPA predominantly involved in tax preparation and consulting; so that constraint is crucial.) (The cleverer of IRS tech/tax-help staff acknowledge the problem, but, EVER since Grover Norquist’s “starve the Beast” jihad took hold among Republicans — i.e., since Dubya — the IRS has been playing catch-up, at best, if not technically delinquent/disabled for months.)
2) Most of my eldest relatives and clients really cannot upgrade their mentalities to a different browser — and I feel ‘LUCKY’ they’re online at all, ALL with IE from back when — and, due to Microsoft’s aggressive update policy, most with the latest version of IE.
3) A reprise of Point 2) as regards backup and antivirus regimens . . . .
You spake the Truth, but most of us need more coddling.
Most sincerely yours, Kurt Wilner

Dear Susan,
IE 8 on my desktop is *prevented* from downloading this patch by a real nasty problem from Intuit. At *every* site I visit, the Information Bar blurts out: “This website wants to run the following add-on: ‘QuickBooks Library’ from Intuit, Inc. . . .” For over a year, I have kiboshed the add-on; but, now, doing that also kills the offer from Microsoft Updates to load its installer!
In Intuit’s Community Forums, an Intuit employee, Sharon433, promised — back in February — to post a fix, but nada all this time.
Now that it’s not just annoying, is there *anything* you’ve heard/learnt about killing the QuickBooks Library pop-up, that could allow me to download Microsoft’s patch asap?!
Anxiously yours, taxcpany (Yes, I’m also a CPA; so this vulnerability has ‘material’ repercussions which I’m seriously worried about!)