Hard Drive Speeds Your hard drive speed has a lot of influence on the overall responsiveness of your computer. The faster, the better. There are good reasons to know how your hardware is performing and I’d like to touch upon that topic in this article. […]
instaGrok Versus Mainstream Search Engines instaGrok is new to me and I’m thoroughly taken by the concept. Normally, I would use a mainstream search engine such as Google or Bing to find information on the internet. They are both remarkable tools giving anyone with internet
Grammar vs Spelling Grammar and spelling are two very different things. Grammar rules the way sentences are put together– Syntax. Spelling rules how words are put together in a sequence of letters. Jim Hillier, my favorite down-under Australian buddy, and I have been talking about
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CPU Priority – What is it? Before the days of multi-core processors multitasking was a myth. Computers were linear in design. That is, they did one thing at a time. The illusion of multitasking came from the fact they did it so darn fast. Like
Over-Clocking… the beginning Now, I don’t pretend for a minute to be an expert in over-clocking a computer. To the contrary, I am a newbie. I have made a few feeble attempts in order to not only experiment but to learn and, hopefully, get
Microsoft Security Essentials fails AV-Test Certification Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has once again failed the AV-Test Certification for the second month running. This is not good news. A few years back I dropped Anti-virus from Grisoft (AVG) in favor of MSE. The reason I made
The Ultimate Toolbox When I think of toolboxes, Techie toolboxes that is, I think of a variety of ‘tools’ that I can carry around in my pocket. In this category I include thumb drives, CD/DVDs and possibly, external hard drives if they’re small enough. These
Eye-Strain From Too Many Hours on the Computer As you might imagine I spend way too many hours staring at my computer screen. Eye-strain is the result. For several weeks now after just a couple of hours of work I have been suffering from a
I have called this “Part 2” because Jim has already posted one method for booting directly to the Desktop in Windows 8 via creating and scheduling a new basic task in Task Scheduler. You can read through Jim’s article here: https://davescomputertips.com/2012/11/how-to-boot-direct-to-the-desktop-in-windows-8/ What follows is another
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File Splitter Utilities A file splitter can be a very handy tool for sending large files through e-mail. It can also be necessary when large multi-gigabyte files won’t fit on a single CD, for example. Only a few years ago there were severe limitations on
Windows 7 Amnesia I was excited about the Windows 7 release and purchased a license right away. It didn’t take long for me to notice that it no longer remembered window Sizes and Positions. XP didn’t have that problem. I thought for quite awhile that
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Easily Find Duplicate Images Do you have tons of images stashed away on your computer? How many are duplicate images or very similar to each other? Here’s a very simple way to find out, and relieve yourself and your computer of some of that clutter
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Right-Click Menu I have written several articles over the years about changing the right-click menu. These have usually involved editing the Windows Registry in some way. Truth be told, many people are justifiably nervous about hacking into the Registry. If you are one of those
Windows 8 Hotkeys List The new Windows 8 interface leaves many of us left in a state of perplexity. This list of keyboard shortcuts should help us in this new age of touching, tapping, swiping, pinching, and all the other things that have strange suggestive
