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A woman brought me her HP laptop with Windows 10 because she couldn’t get Microsoft Edge to open. So I searched online and tried about a half-dozen different things and nothing worked. It wouldn’t even open in Safe Mode. She said something about a virus warning […]
Microsoft’s gradual deprecation of the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app is making some settings/options more difficult to locate. With that in mind, I thought it might be time to explain how to access the System Restore settings where you can turn this
I was trying to watch a YouTube video from DavesComputerTips.com named How To Find Coupons On Amazon App when I got an error message: An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: a1K3kfyNeowOXxGB). The simple fix in my case was to refresh the browser.
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Adding Stickers To Your Desktop Windows will be rolling out Desktop stickers for a future build of Windows. Right now, they are available in Beta and Dev Windows Insiders, but I imagine it won’t be long for them to roll out with an upcoming update
Once you have sent a document out for your colleagues to review, you might receive more than one version in return. And they might all have suggestions and revisions you do not want to miss. Should this occur, you can simply combine all the edits
The latest iteration of Microsoft’s Edge browser now includes a sidebar with a number of useful features. The sidebar displays down the right-hand edge of the browser window and is closed by default. Clicking on an item (icon) in the adjacent menu bar (which is
You are most likely familiar with the term “Navigation Pane” because it has been around since the 2007 version of Word. Then, it was called Document Map. The name may have changed a bit and been updated from time to time, but the fundamental reason
Fixing A Hidden Title Bar See the Original Tips and Techniques for DOD Degree of Difficulty Values DOD = 1 Occasionally an application window will repeatedly open with the Title Bar hidden above the desktop. Not being able to grab the Title Bar and move
I have two older Dell towers. One is a Dell Inspiron 531 with 2 GB RAM. The other is a Dell Inspiron 530 with 1 GB RAM. They both take DDR 2 RAM and I realized I had a bunch of 1 GB DDR2 RAM
I was given a Dell Inspiron-530 Desktop. A Vista Home Basic, Intel Celeron CPU 450 @ 2.20 GHz, 288GB hard drive and 1GB RAM. It was an old desktop owned by a late neighbour. When I turned it on, it would give an error message:
Why Improve My Game Recordings? Because when you upload videos to YouTube, there’s a noticeable difference in the quality you see on your PC and what YouTube shows you. This is due to the AVC1 compression that YouTube uses when your video is published. One
What Is HEVC? H.265 or HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) is a video compression technique or algorithm and is particularly important for 4K videos which can be huge in size. So what you see on Netflix and others is probably coded in HEVC/H.265. Why am I
For folks who have a Microsoft 365 subscription and who also talk a lot faster than they key in text, you will find the Dictate feature very helpful. This is a useful process to put your thoughts on paper quickly and easily without having to
I’m guessing many Windows users might have or might be, toying with the idea of trying out Linux. Installing Linux as a secondary operating system is not only practical but also an interesting exercise. In this article, I’m going to provide a few tips to
