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It’s a fact of life that many software developers, including Microsoft, like to have their programs start up with Windows. In many cases, this is totally unnecessary and these programs can easily be accessed manually. Windows 11 users can now choose to be notified whenever […]
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In a somewhat ironic twist, Microsoft has recently announced that it will extend support for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 PCs, completely contradicting an announcement last January that support for Microsoft 365 apps would be discontinued when Windows 10 reaches end-of-support. Obviously, the decision to
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I wrote about this before, but using a lower quality video capture device called “Easycap”. Read here: How To Record From Cable To Computer Using OBS Studio I recently bought an HD Video Capture USB device called a “Guermok Video Capture Card” from Amazon. They
You may or may not have been aware of it, but you can combine your Key Tips letters with your Alt key to create shortcuts called Access Keys for your ribbon options. Go ahead and press Alt+H to open the Home tab, and Alt+Q to
Microsoft has recently published a document that attempts to convince Windows 10 users that TPM is worth the upgrade. Windows 11 is quickly making up ground on Windows 10 in market share, but Windows 10 remains the predominant Windows operating system, and Microsoft will not
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Last October, I wrote about my new mini PC in I Finally Bought A Mini PC and we’ve been enjoying its simplicity for streaming ever since with zero issues. Running Windows 11 Pro, 24H2 with updates enabled, I didn’t notice any anomalies… until now. Although
I’m in a family subscription to Microsoft 365 Copilot, formally known as Office 365 (I wish MS would stop coming up with ridiculous names!), which gives us 1TB of storage with OneDrive, access to all the Office programs, and, if I’m not mistaken, unlimited use
I have a Gateway desktop on my network with a couple of hard drives in it, which I use as a backup system. Yesterday, I turned it on, but it wouldn’t boot up. It made one beep and then went to the Gateway Logo. It
A guy called me and claimed he “couldn’t get anything on his computer”. That can be translated in so many ways. Usually, it means, “I can’t get on Facebook”. I went to his home, and his problem was that he had lost his internet. He
A guy came to me with his Chromebook. On Facebook Messenger (Chrome browser), he had no scroll bar, so he couldn’t scroll back to see older messages with someone he was chatting with. I cleared out the temporary files, reset the browser, disabled the extensions,
I will start by saying that I am absolutely no kind of expert when it comes to Excel. I simply am not good at anything that resembles math, even when it is automatically done for me! Having said that, I do try to avail myself
It is not just Word where you can save time and keystrokes! No sir! You can also save time and keystrokes when you are using Excel. Below you will find some keystrokes that a lot of folks are not aware of. I think you will
A lot of folks do not realize just how easy it is to create work books in Excel. With Excel, you can streamline your data entry with AutoFill. Once you do that, you can get chart recommendations based on the data, and create them with
Celebrating World Backup Day Almost all tech sites continually emphasize the importance of backups, none more so than here at DCT. We’ve published numerous articles explaining how backups work and how they can save money and grief. In this article I’ll explain how to set
