Articles related to Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems
For the second time in a row Microsoft Defender, the antivirus software built into Windows 10, has ranked among the highest in lab tests performed by AV-Test. For those who may not be aware, AV-Test is a highly regarded independent organization based in Germany that […]
A guy called me because his Facebook didn’t seem to display properly. He couldn’t see who was online in the chat. He’s still on the old version of Facebook where the green dots are separated and to the right of the contact picture. In the
Most Windows 10 users have icons on the desktop. Some have so many it is hard to find any blank place to put another one. Then we get on Zoom or another screen sharing program and demonstrate a particular application and everyone sees our maze
Is Chromium Edge browser not remembering your log-ins? Read on to learn a simple fix. Very recently, my Chromium Edge browser stopped automatically logging me into sites I had previously logged in to. In order to fully understand this problem, you first need to know
Death is a fact of life. This is not only true for flora and fauna but also for software and operating systems. Even the almighty Windows is not immune to this immutable end. Over the decades we have seen many variants of Windows come and
Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10 allows you to troubleshoot or restore your operating system when there are problems you can’t fix from within the operating system itself. Advanced Startup Options isn’t something we need to access all that often but is invaluable when the
The next Windows 10 Update (20H2) is due to start rolling out sometime toward the end of this month (October). Microsoft has made a couple of changes to its updates that you need to be aware of: The naming convention: Previous Windows 10 updates have
What You Need To Know About The Next Win10 Update Read More »
If you are like many of the computer users I know, you have a number of shortcuts on your desktop and many of them contain the same icon. This can get confusing when you are searching your desktop for the shortcut you need to use.
The rollout of Windows 10 2004 update has been completed and should be available on most Windows 10 machines. At this stage the 2004 update remains optional — that is, the user has to initiate the update — and pretty much all machines that previously
My sister had some DVDs of their vacation from years ago. They were originally VHS tapes transferred to DVD using a VHS to DVD recorder. When she tried to watch some of their own vacation videos recently, they would not play. The first thing that
I recently updated my main Windows 10 machine to the latest 2004 feature update and all seemed to go well until I opened my email client, Windows Live Mail (WLM), and was unable to send or receive new messages due to an error marked 0X800C013E.
Windows Live Mail Error 0X800C013E After Update 2004 – Solved Read More »
We recently published an article taking tech writers to task with regards to their overuse of click-bait articles– those articles that sensationalize a non-event and make mountains out of molehills: Tech Site Journalism Reaches All-Time Low. Controversy sells, don’t ya know. Once again, a bunch
No, Windows Defender Does Not Have A Security Flaw Read More »
I’ve written about programs auto-starting with Windows many times and how they can be unnecessarily consuming valuable resources. Apparently, many software developers believe that their programs are so good they need to be running all the time. The fact of the matter is, most of
I recently wrote an article on inserting special characters in a Word document and showed how to do the same in Google Docs. A comment by one of our readers reminded me that Windows gives us the ability to locate and copy any character and
