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Windows 7 allows users to pin programs to the taskbar easily via the right click context menu but there is no such option available for personal (user) folders. It can be done though and is very useful for providing quick access to those most often […]
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The Page File Ah, the Page File, or Swap File as it has been called. The Page file has been a source of debate for decades- How big should it be? Where should it be located? Do I need one at all? To answer these
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The Hibernation File is Huge The Hibernation File will be in the root directory of your system drive– that is, where Windows is installed. It will be called: hiberfil.sys In order to see hidden system files you will have to change a couple settings in Folder
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The area in Windows Explorer known for a long time as “My Computer” and in more recent iterations labeled just “Computer” is generally not terribly customizable. For items such as hard drives and devices to be displayed they first have to be detected and recognized
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Windows Basics Although this post is primarily aimed at Windows computer users, it will hopefully provide good advice for any computer owner. Over time it is inevitable that computers get dirty. Not only in the physical sense, but in an electronic way as well. This “dirt”
Windows Basics – Some Tips to Keep That Old Computer Alive Read More »
Even though Windows 7 has been out for a while now, I keep meeting folks who haven’t yet discovered some of the extras that came with it. That’s what blogs are for, eh? Here are a few of my favorite most often used Win 7
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Summary: When it’s time to recover deleted files from an SD Card, Hard Drive, Flash Drive, etc., this powerful open source portable recovery application, (despite its command line type interface), makes deleted file recovery just about as simple as it gets. In previous reviews, I’ve
TestDisk & PhotoRec: Easily Recover Deleted Files Read More »
In all previous versions of Windows, whenever you right click a file and select “Delete”, or highlight a file and press the “Delete” key, a window pops up requesting confirmation. That is not the case in Windows 8, at least not by default. It’s not
How To: Enable Delete Confirmation Popup in Windows 8 Read More »
It’s a fact of life, much like death and taxes, if you own and operate a PC for any length of time you are almost certain to encounter malware. This is an area where it seems everyone has an opinion and advice on how to
Malware Infections: Remedies and Cleaning Read More »
My dear husband recently dropped his iPad mini and it did not go well. He chipped off the area around the Power button. As a result, he could no longer get cellular coverage due to a damaged antenna. He also couldn’t turn off his iPad
Exploring iOS AssistiveTouch Read More »
Whether you inherit a document from someone else and you simply need to start from scratch, or you do a text dump from the Internet, you will someday need to know how to erase certain things from your document. There isn’t a one trick pony
The Magic Erasers for Word Read More »
Portable Document Format – What is it? This may seem like an obvious question but it is possible that someone out there isn’t sure what a Portable Document Format (PDF) file is. The Adobe Acrobat Product line and the PDF file date back to the early
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I write a lot of documentation. For me junk text is necessary for a few reasons. I may not want to display real names or confidential information using prior documents when I write a How-To. Or I may not want people to concentrate on the
Inserting Dummy Text in Word Read More »
If you have been reading my ‘How To’ articles, you may have read how to turn off Aero Shake and Aero Peek. Today it’s the turn of Aero Snap. This tweak works in both Windows 7 and 8 and again, it’s one of those things
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