Their website bills Kodi as “the ultimate Entertainment center“. You can use it as your media player and download apps to watch TV programs, movies, etc. Warning: The legitimacy of some of these add-ons is debatable. Use at your discretion. Download and install Kodi from […]
I recently installed ReactOS on an old laptop – an Acer Aspire 5315. The original operating system was Vista. The installation went smoothly but the problems started when I tried to install some drivers. ReactOS didn’t install drivers for the ACPI Embedded Controller, Ethernet, wireless,
With only a couple of more weeks before Halloween here are my 5 top picks from YouTube for the best short horror videos. Descriptions are from YouTube. Click here for last year’s picks: My Top 5 Short Horror Picks From YouTube 1. Thingamajig A man
According to their website: “ReactOS can run Windows software, drivers, it looks like Windows, is free and open source“. ReactOS homepage click here I downloaded the latest ISO and burned it to a CD. I’ll be installing it on an older Acer Aspire 5315 laptop.
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A woman called me because she had dropped her remote control for her cable/TV. It was a “TiVo” remote, and some buttons were not working. She couldn’t turn her TV on or off or adjust the volume. It was stuck on Mute. If she could
I started getting the same error message on two of my computers. It claims: “Script Error – An error has occurred in the script on this page https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-686301-39 – Do you want to continue running scripts on this page? Yes or No“. Do not close
How to make a System Image Backup using the latest version of AOMEI Backupper. First download and install “AOMEI Backupper” from here. The first time you run the program the “Home” screen will look like this. Click on the First big square icon labeled “New
OperaGX recently updated and the thumbnails for the speed dials are just letters. They select the first letter of the website address and make it the thumbnail. So, davescomputertips.com gets a D. Facebook.com gets an F. Youtube.com gets a Y. And so on. So, the
A woman called me because her games were not loading on Facebook. She also wanted her computer cleaned out. She was using Chrome in Windows 10 on a Dell desktop. When I used the computer it didn’t seem slow or anything. I opened up Chrome
Windows 10 still has the built-in backup utility from Windows 7. Here is how to use it. I’m not sure if it’s on Windows 11. My nephew gave me his old CyberPowerPC, slightly better than my current ASUS desktop, so I’m setting it up as
I got a call from a guy who couldn’t turn off his “Caps Lock” key on his keyboard. The keys weren’t sticking or anything but no matter how many times he pressed on it, it wouldn’t go off. He was at his sign-in screen and
A short while ago in that faraway land known as YouTube, I came across a video talking about the Brave browser. Mainly about the built-in option “Copy Text From Image”. You can right-click on a picture in Brave and have it converted to editable text.
Sometimes, as in Windows, you may need to know the version of Linux you are running. Open Terminal and type the following, hitting Enter after: cat /etc/os-release The result: For more Linux information click here. —
I was trying to install “Wine” in Linux but I can’t seem to get it to work properly. So I had to uninstall it and start over from scratch. To uninstall an app in Linux using terminal, do the following. If you don’t know the
