A woman came to me because she wanted some music copied from her phone to a USB flash drive. She wanted to play the music in her car through the USB plugin. When I copy music to flash drives, one thing I check is the […]
This is with a Gateway DX4380 desktop computer. I mentioned it briefly in my last article: How To Add/Change Password With Command Prompt How To Add/Change Password With Command Prompt I like to add a second hard drive to all my systems — my main
I recently bought my sister’s old tower. It’s a Gateway DX4380 with 6GB of memory. She hasn’t used it for years and it had an old version of Windows 10 installed which I updated to the latest version. When I set up my computers, I
I was doing a bit of early spring cleaning on my system and was trying to remove duplicate files from my system. I wrote before about removing duplicate images using Similar Images. Read here: How To Find Similar Images But this program only deals with
This tip is particularly useful for people who live in medium to high-density residential areas to help avoid local congestion on a particular wireless channel. The generally recommended wireless channels for a router are 1, 6, and 11. These channels are recommended because they are
My Uncle wanted me to print up a full-page image of this pony at the farm he works at. When I’m printing up pictures, I prefer the borderless format but Canon made borderless printing a hit-or-miss process, at least on my system. Here’s an image
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A guy came to me because he accidentally blocked someone on Facebook and didn’t know how to undo it. So here’s how to do it… First, go into the Settings menu (the top right-hand corner of the Facebook page). Then click on Settings & Privacy,
This is on my Acer, Windows 7 system that doesn’t support TMP or Secure boot. I’m assuming you got your bootable flash drive ready, in reference to my last article: How To Install Windows 11 On Unsupported Hardware. First, boot off your flash drive. I
Setting Things Up Microsoft, in a grand publicity stunt, “Accidentally” released a version of Windows 11 to the public. They now apparently have blocked most downloads but at the time of this writing, it is still possible to get a copy from UUP dump. Not
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So there is a lot of buzz online about Windows 11. Microsoft has changed the minimum requirements for Windows 11. Rumour has it that they might lower them. Check out the latest here: Windows 11 Requirements You might also want to read Jim Hillier’s article
Still the simplest way to fix a computer. Follow instructions carefully. And if all else fails: —
A man brought me his laptop because his mouse/touchpad wasn’t working. I thought it was a simple matter of just enabling it. This was an Acer and the key combination is Fn + F7. Then I discovered the keyboard wasn’t working either. The first thing
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Opera has given you the option to set a background picture on the Speed Dial page for a long time. It also gives you the option to set an animated background, basically a video as a background. The easiest way to add an animated background
There are a few sites online that try to simulate or emulate different operating systems. I’ve come across a few listed here: ChasM’s On this site, look at the menu on the left-hand side of the page. So let’s try the Mac and pick macOS
