A bit odd to be talking about such an old system. I recently came into possession of a Dell Inspiron-530 Desktop. With: Vista Home Basic, Intel Celeron CPU 450 @ 2.20 GHz, 288GB hard drive, 1GB RAM. Usually, I take my old desktops, add a […]
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I wrote before about my problems with opening .jfif files with XnView, my picture viewer of choice. It still has its fits when it comes to opening .jfif and .jpeg files. Read here: How To Fix Problems Viewing JFIF Files Download XnView here Normally I
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I wrote before about how I prefer to download PDF files rather than have Opera open them. A previous Opera update didn’t respect my choice because it change the setting back to open in Opera. Read: How To Download PDF Files In Opera So again
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I was going to do some backups when one of my backup drives failed. Windows Explorer showed the drive letter but when I tried to access it, Windows claimed it was too corrupted. Couldn’t even run a check disk on it. Tried it on another
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I wrote previously about an HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca that I acquired and what I had to do to replace the hard drive. I was wondering why anyone would give up such a laptop because of a hard drive issue. Then I discovered the real
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When it comes to family members and some friends, I’m where old computers go to their last resting place. So I either fix them and make them work again or dissect them for parts. I recently received an HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca that looked like
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There was a prediction for two stars in a binary system to collide and form a massive explosion, a Red Nova. A star called KIC 9832227 in the constellation Cygnus located about 1,940 ± 30 light-years away. A YouTube channel called THEREALPAX has a live
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A woman called me because her pictures were not showing up on Facebook after being uploaded. I uploaded some for her remotely through Teamviewer. They were not displayed in her pictures on her profile but they were shown on her timeline. Read: How To Connect
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Have you ever wanted to create an Animated GIF? A series of pictures strung together that when opened it’s like watching a video clip. I’m going to show you how to make one using a photo editing program called GIMP. Download GIMP But first, you
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Sometimes you may have issues with your browser and resetting is the only option to fix it, so here is how to do it with the most popular browsers. This list is based on the browsers I have on my system at this time, all
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Microsoft finally dropped support for Internet Explorer on June 15 after 27 years. I know it’s a bit late writing this but then I came across this: A South Korean fan named Jung Ki-young created an Internet Explorer gravestone. Its epitaph: “He was a good
My uncle got in touch with me and said he could upload messages to Facebook on his Android phone but couldn’t upload videos or pictures. I suggested restarting his phone first. Sometimes this clears things out – like restarting a computer That didn’t work so
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So, you are using another writing program but decide to switch to LibreOffice. You want to use it as your default – that means the main program that opens when you double-click on an associated file type. Usually, during the installation, you do get a
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Some people still don’t like the modern-day version of Facebook. There used to be a number of extensions that would set the look of Facebook back to its classic days, but most of them don’t seem to work anymore. One that kind of works is
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