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A few weeks ago, my wife couldn’t log in to her Outlook (ex Hotmail) account on Google Chrome and kept receiving the following message: Please retry with a different device, use a VPN, or other authentication method to sign in. For more details, please see […]
A woman brought me two HP laptops to check over for her. Both had Windows 10 but were not compatible with Windows 11. Otherwise, they were both in pretty good shape. A problem on one of the computers was a constantly high CPU and disk usage,
I’ve never used a game console, a handheld, or a controller, but the recent Microsoft reveal of the ROG Xbox Ally really piqued my interest. Neither am I an expert on handheld gaming devices, being a PC gamer, but we can’t ignore this new handheld
Defragmentation and Trim are both methods to optimize a drive; the former is used to optimize HDDs and the latter to optimize SSDs. Windows includes a feature that automatically optimizes drives; the feature is enabled and set to weekly optimization by default. Windows identifies each
Having just read Jim Hillier’s excellent article, “Microsoft Says TPM Is Worth The Upgrade – But Is It?” and his other articles on Windows 11’s laughable hardware restrictions, I was reminded of more Microsoft lunacy that literally stopped me in my tracks. A Tale Of
Reminded by Jim Hillier’s recent article Microsoft Says TPM Is Worth The Upgrade – But Is It?, it’s only just come to my attention that some games require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 – Fortnite (for tournaments), Valorant, The Finals and Vanguard (Call of Duty)
All antivirus solutions will occasionally flag a harmless file as being malicious, and these instances are generally known as false positives. The problem with antivirus software is that it is unable to distinguish between the potential for malicious use and actual malicious use, so it
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
