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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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NetFlix Hotkeys List I don’t know about you but I don’t like switching between the keyboard and mouse all the time. If I’m working with the keyboard, I want to stay there. That’s where HotKeys come in. HotKeys are Key Combinations that will provide the
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What is CrossfireX? CrossfireX is a technology developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It allows a computer user to connect 2 graphics accelerators in order to combine their resources. In effect, both graphics cards act as one unified device. Usually, and the best practice, is
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SlipStreaming? What the heck is that? Deciding whether you want to slipstream Windows 7 depends on if you know what slipstreaming is. In this article I’ll tell you about slipstreaming and how to slipstream Windows 7, the Service Pack 1 update, and the most recent
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ChkDsk Countdown Timer If you run ChkDsk on several hard drives/partitions several of them may require a computer re-boot to complete successfully. When your computer re-boots you will be presented with a countdown timer before ChkDsk performs its magic. I believe the default time is
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Backup Your Browser Profiles These days it is important to back up your browser profiles and settings. Internet browsers are becoming the go-to programs these days for accomplishing most everything. We use them to access our bank accounts, create and edit our web sites, backup
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Windows Defender Offline We all know by now that the Internet is a dangerous place. You may be set up with all the latest security software on your computer and still get infected by rootkits, malware, viruses, and other possibly unwanted software. Windows Defender Offline
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CheckDiskGUI – A One-Click Disk Check (almost) The native Windows ChkDsk tool is not very user-friendly. It involves several mouse-clicks to check each hard drive for errors, bad sectors, and other integrity issues. This is fine if you only have a few drives/partitions to deal
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