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
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Still the simplest way to fix a computer. Follow instructions carefully. And if all else fails: —
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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
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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
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Flash is dead — RIP. But it still might work on older systems with older browsers with flash enabled. If you have a bunch of flash files on your system, they end in the .swf extension, then you can still play them by downloading Adobe’s
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I wrote about downloading videos with Youtube-dl-gui before. Read these: How To Download Videos With Youtube-dl How To Convert Videos With Youtube-dl-gui This program has a converter and merger components included so I decided to give them a shot. Merging My problem here was that
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Updating VLC is usually not an issue if, like me, you have it set to automatic. I had version 3.0.12 Vetinari and every time it tried to update, I would get an error message that at first I completely ignored. The message kept popping up
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I wrote about downloading videos with youtube-dl-gui before. That article contains important information you will need to use this software. You should read it before continuing with this one. This program has a converter and merger components included so I decided to give them a
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I wrote in my last article about using VLC to download Youtube videos. A commenter, thanks to Daniel, suggested a program called youtube-dl. It is a command-line program and I really wasn’t interested until I found out there was a graphical interface you can download.
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I learned a new way to download YouTube videos by just using VLC. Decided to try it. Here are my end results. This requires VLC media player from: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ So first go to YouTube to get your video link. I’m going to be using the
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I had a bunch of tabs open and when I switched to some of them they were just blank. I was thinking at first that the last update broke the browser but then I remembered reading about a new feature in Opera concerning snoozing tabs.
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My neighbour had a problem with her computer not saving her wireless connection info. Here is one way to fix it. Type services into the search box and click on it in the list. In the Services window, scroll down, locate WLAN AutoConfig and then
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