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November 13

Google SEO.

If I have a website www. domain-name. com/PageFile, and create a new domain name www. PageFile .com, and just use it as a forward or redirect to that page, will that affect it's place in Google search? 67.175.224.138 (talk) 13:33, 13 November 2019 (UTC).

I don't think so? Google generally doesn't publicize much about their search algorithms. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 16:41, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

I think this is handled with <link rel="canonical"> but I'm not up to date on this. You'd better ask someplace else. 93.136.94.213 (talk) 21:50, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Why are emails I am receiving dated 2038?

The inbox folder doesn't show these, and the dates there are correct, but when it shows me new emails, they have this date.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:24, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee, What Email client are you using? MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 19:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

The URL starts with https://navigator-lxa.mail.com — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:33, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Vchimpanzee, I have no clue then, sorry. You'll have to wait for someone else to help. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 19:36, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

I do have a sneaking suspicion it may be related to the Year 2038 problem MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 19:37, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

I clicked where it said "help". Maybe someone will respons. If they do i'll post their answer.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:17, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Are these spam emails? (Hint, if these emails are telling you that you won $100,000 in a lotto you never specifically entered, or that they are from someone poor corrupt tyrant who's illegitimate money is being held by the evil authorities, or the best place to buy prescription medicine especially Viagra cheap, or how you can increase your penis size, or that there is a parcel you never ordered held up for some reason, or that your PayPal/bank/whatever account is compromised and you should click here, it's spam.) And if they are is there some reason you care so much about spam emails to ask us? Anyway the answer to this is most likely that someone has intentionally dated the emails in the future to try and ensure they always show up on top so they get the recipient's attention. The reason for 2038 in particular likely arises due to something related to MoonyTheDwarf's answer. Email, designed in a world where people weren't thinking of spam or anything like that mostly just relies on trust. The date: header [1] is set by the sender and may not be re-written even if it makes no sense. Some clients may choose to display this date, again even if it makes no sense. Other clients may choose to display some other date, probably the date the email was received especially in cases where this is before the sending date. Some clients may choose to do both depending on the situation. See also: [2] Nil Einne (talk) 03:32, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

They all appear to be spam type emails. I was asked for a screenshot. If I can do that, how would I let people here see that?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:24, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Use the "Upload file" link at the left side, near the top of page. No need to put it in commons. Cut and paste the file name created to here. Open a new tab/window and edit any Wikipedia page with an image in it, to cut the syntax needed for that (don't save !), then paste that here. Plug the correct file name in and change the caption. Do a preview, and when it looks right, save. SinisterLefty (talk) 17:04, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

How do I take the screenshot? I used to know.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:25, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

In Windows, you hit the Print Screen button on the keyboard, usually after the function keys on the top row. That puts the screen grab in the buffer. Open up MS Paint and do a paste there, then save as a file. SinisterLefty (talk) 17:41, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

I just got a message saying it was saved to OneDrive. I'll just go ahead since this is simpler.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:51, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Is this a free work or fair use? I don't know how to justify its use. If these questions can't be answered, I may have to use OneDrive.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I can't upload this here. If someone can tell me how to send it through OneDrive, I will, but the questions asked with the upload form cannot be answered.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:25, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Sure they can. Just pick "My own work" and pick the most common license (the one they propose). If you make a mistake, it's no big deal. If so, somebody will eventually come along and delete it, but hopefully this Q would be archived by then anyway. SinisterLefty (talk) 18:32, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

No, they keep asking more questions that I can't answer truthfully no matter what I do.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:48, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

This cannot be done.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:50, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Then just choose at random. Nobody will sue over this. At worst, it will be deleted. SinisterLefty (talk) 18:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

You're not getting it. Nothing I do will let me do anything. Period. There is only one button that works: Reset form and start over. That clears everything. I've wasted enough time on this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:58, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't look at that list of options. There was one that didn't ask me a lot of questions.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:26, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Yep, that's 100% spam, and odds are that they've forged the "Date" header in an effort to place themselves at the top of your inbox. You can report them to your email provider service, but frankly there's nothing that can be done about forged headers in general, email is a very trusting protocol. Perhaps you could suggest that their spam filters be tightened so you never have to see messages like this. Elizium23 (talk) 14:43, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

The weird thing is it's not in the inbox or the spam folder. Only when I first go to the email account. I don't use this one often. The response from mail.com said copy and paste the extended confirmed header of one of the emails.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:11, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Are you positive they are not in your inbox and not merely difficult to find? The bogus date could be causing other display bugs. Elizium23 (talk) 00:28, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

If they're in the inbox, they're not in the ones I see when I click on "inbox". Same for spam. I don't know why they are appearing where they are.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:52, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

the more desktop icons = the slower the computer is?

Is that true that the more desktop icons the slower the computer is? If it is, then what's the reason for that? ThePupil (talk) 21:00, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Nope.

Although there is a non-causative correlation between "more stuff" and "more stuff which makes it slow". Windows is rather infamous for slowing down with age by a process of cruft accretion. Surplus icons would also tend to accumulate at the same time. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:01, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps this could apply to the systray icons. Any icon appearing in the systray typically has a service or background task associated with it, and this consumes resources. It would typically be recommended to retain only the systray items that you recognize, understand, and require. Elizium23 (talk) 23:18, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Well, historically, the desktop needed to be redrawn whenever you move a window over it, and with a lot of icons, that might take a while. I think with modern windowing architectures and graphics cards, this should not be noticeable, but for older machines it might definitely make the machine feel slow, in particular since it directly affects user interaction. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you all for the answers.ThePupil (talk) 17:59, 14 November 2019 (UTC)