When it comes to my computer, and particularly the desktop, I am OCD about neatness and can’t abide clutter. I have seen clients’ desktops that are a mass of icons and shortcuts, so many that they cover almost all of the screen real estate. That […]
Screen capture tools can be very useful in many situations for capturing screenshots when seeking assistance, for example. Or to help illustrate a point in an email message or document. Fortunately, there are quite a few very good free screen capture tools to choose from.
*PLEASE NOTE: Applies to the new Chromium Edge only, does not work with the old Edge. I suspect everyone would by now, be well aware of Edge browser’s affinity with the Bing search engine. Changing the default search engine in Edge is not difficult and
Standard Television Warranties With big-screen smart TVs now all the go, I am amazed that the major television manufacturers — Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony — are still getting away with providing just 12 months warranty. It is incongruous to me that a TV costing hundreds,
I thought I’d share details of my home workstation and workbench with you good folk. I call it ”workstation” and ”workbench” just to sound fancy. In reality, it is just a section of my dingy old garage. No mod cons here. Here is my workstation
*Applies to new Chromium Edge only As you may be aware, the new Edge is very similar to Google’s Chrome browser in that both are built on the Chromium platform with Blink as the default rendering engine. This change has improved Edge no end and
Basic Computing 6 – Cut, Copy, and Paste It’s surprising how many users do not know how to use Cut, Copy, and Paste. Yet, of all the basic processes in Windows, Cut, Copy, and Paste are probably the most useful and important to understand and
Before writing this article I had a little look around the web to see what the experts were recommending for PDF reader software these days and got the shock of my life. Many of these so-called experts are still including Adobe Reader at the very
Personally, I think Windows 10 license keys are way too expensive and a multi-million-dollar company such as Microsoft could surely afford to sell them for much less money. I guess that’s the price consumers pay for Windows’ domination in the operating system market place. Numerous
It’s been a while since we looked at the market share statistics for desktop browsers and operating systems. As always, I am quoting the statistics from the *trusted NetMarketShare, and they make for some interesting reading. *NetMarketShare counts unique visits only whereas StatCounter counts all
Basic Computing 5 – Creating Desktop Shortcuts I have one particular client who, if he doesn’t have a shortcut on his desktop to a particular program or folder, is completely lost. I have shown him multiple times how to create these shortcuts, he’s even written
In all operating systems prior to Windows 8, Microsoft embedded the product key in the Registry, which made it pretty simple for dedicated key finder software to identify and extract product key details. From Windows 8 and upward, however, Microsoft changed the system and, instead
Basic Computing 4 – Backing Up Personal Data A Backup of personal data (pictures, documents, videos, music, etc.) is simply a second copy stored on *external media (preferably USB external hard drive). Think of it this way– you have a hard copy of an extremely
There have always been two topics where any sort of discussion is sure to instigate a lively debate– Browsers and Antivirus. These days, I think it’s safe to say that we can add ”Privacy” to that list. Is 100% online privacy a realistic goal? Emphatically,
