Articles related to Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems
Last month I wrote about creating a shortcut to websites so one can go directly to the site from the desktop. Some of those shortcuts have icons with images and others are just plain squares. Then we saw how to assign an icon image from […]
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I have read a number of articles about Windows 7 being unsupported come January 2020. Some seem to think that it will be the end of their dependable Windows 7 PC. Not true. There are plenty of XP and Vista and Windows 8 machines out
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Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that
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(Sorry, no screenshots with this one.) The Problem I recently had to reset a couple of Windows 10 computers. The first one, I ran through its paces and when I got to the screen to create an account, I noticed the option to create a
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Windows maintains a folder called WinSxS. (SxS stands for “Side by Side”.) This is an important system folder that contains information necessary for the proper operation of Windows. For example, this folder holds information about important system files in case corrupted files need to be
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Normally, when you install Windows 10, the Taskbar will sit at the bottom of your main display, where it will be visible whenever you are working with Windows applications, however, you do not have to keep it there. Moving your Taskbar can make better use
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Last week I posted a Quick Tips article about Microsoft’s current marked propensity for sending us buggy updates. It includes a video by a former Microsoft employee explaining how all this shoddy business came to pass. Here it is for those of you who are
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We saw how to create an icon for a single web page in my Elderly Computing article. Sometimes the icon that is created is an empty square– no picture. Let’s take a look at changing the icon to something else. Open your browser and locate
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If you’ve been fooling around with networking at all, you probably came across this issue more than once. You try to access a computer on your network and get a network error: Windows cannot access \\ (your computer). Search online and you’ll find 101 solutions
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Windows 10 updates are bug-ridden these days. That has become the natural state of things and we have all settled into the “it is what it is” mentality accepting whatever may befall us. There was a time, some of you might remember, when this wasn’t
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A few months back I found a deal on a Corsair Strafe mechanical keyboard. My old keyboard was working OK but I wanted one that lit up the whole keyboard and not only a few keys (like WASD). As you might imagine, I was excited
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Computers are all around us no matter what age we are– from young to old. In my experience, many elderly users find it confusing but there’s a way to set up the Desktop and remove a lot of that confusion. Instead of placing a shortcut
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Over the last few months, I’ve installed Windows 10 numerous times on our machines at home, mainly due to major hardware changes such as CPUs and motherboards. My last clean install was when I replaced an ageing Gigabyte 770 motherboard which was paired with a
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I was playing on my laptop the other day and looked at the Taskbar at the bottom of my screen. Nothing new but I wondered if I could make any adjustments to it. The one change I really wanted to change was removing the Search
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