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Last week we covered how to clean up your desktop. If you missed that lesson, you can find it here: How To Clean Up Your Desktop We will be sticking with Windows and teaching you something new. ‘What are you teaching us this week, Jason?’
I was trying to print a letter on my Canon TR4720 printer, but I kept getting error message 2110. Here’s how to fix it. The error message said that the paper in the tray didn’t match the paper selected. It was plain paper; I didn’t
In last week’s lesson, we covered how to get better performance from Windows. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Get Better Performance From Windows This week I’m staying on Windows since we are having so much fun! ‘What are
I’m trying to connect my Chromebook to my printer. I need to find my printer’s IP address. Here’s how to find it. Note: My printer is a Canon TR4720. In Windows, open “File Explorer”. Scroll down and click on the “Network” section in Explorer. Hopefully,
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Why Am I Playing With Ancient Cassette Tapes? For the same reason that I convert VHS to digital – for posterity and safekeeping. But this one is more personal because I found an audio cassette tape from 1976 with a brief conversation that my now-wife
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In last week’s lesson, we talked about how to Check Battery Health on your Windows 11 laptop. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Check Battery Health In Windows 11 This week we are continuing our Windows 11 subject. ‘What
Accessing network shares through a Chromebook. Windows networking has always been a nightmare. Hit or miss. It only works when it wants to. So I’m going to add to that nightmare by trying to access it through a Chromebook. 🙂 On your Chromebook, click the
Print on both sides of a page using LibreOffice and a Canon TR4720 printer. I wrote about this before: How To Print On Both Sides Of A Page So I went to print a 4-page document only to discover the necessary settings were missing from
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Welcome Back! If you were here with me last week, we talked about connecting to our smart TV wirelessly. You can find that article right here: How To Cast Your Computer To TV Wirelessly This week we are going to change the subject a little.
Here is a new and simple method to skip the Microsoft account requirement during installation and set up a local account. Many Windows 11 users have not been happy with Microsoft’s insistence on signing in via a Microsoft account when setting up Windows, and some
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I recently received a notification informing me that my Bitwarden subscription is about to expire. My password manager contains some of my most sensitive data. As readers of my article on the possible enshittification of Bitwarden know, there is a chance that Bitwarden is preparing
If you have been reading my weekly How To articles, you saw last week’s on how to disconnect apps from your Facebook account. If not, you can find that one here: How To Disconnect App From Facebook This week I wanted to change gears again
Thunderbird has changed its email program so that clicking the X no longer closes the program but minimizes it to the system tray (down by the clock). Here’s how to change that. Previously, when I clicked the minimize button in Thunderbird, it minimized to the
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Last week we learned how to fix missing thumbnail images in Windows. If you missed that article, you can find it here: How To Fix Missing Thumbnail Images In Windows This week we are jumping subjects and will be talking about Facebook. I have covered
