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There are many reasons why you may want to add an Excel 365 Map Chart to your Word 365 document. I have to admit that I am terrible at math and tend to shy away from anything math-related, which is why I rely on Excel […]
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How to make a System Image Backup using the latest version of AOMEI Backupper. First download and install “AOMEI Backupper” from here. The first time you run the program the “Home” screen will look like this. Click on the First big square icon labeled “New
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In a recent article in a major tech magazine, the author mentioned the benefits of using 3rd party Antivirus or Antimalware applications, even free versions over the use of Microsoft Defender claiming they were all better. What bothered me was the article did not have
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Take a look back at Jim’s 2020 article which rates Windows operating systems from XP through to Windows 10. Windows 11 can now be added into the mix but I wonder how Windows 11 would rate in comparison. Let us know your thoughts in the
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Windows 10 still has the built-in backup utility from Windows 7. Here is how to use it. I’m not sure if it’s on Windows 11. My nephew gave me his old CyberPowerPC, slightly better than my current ASUS desktop, so I’m setting it up as
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Caveat: You must have a Microsoft Subscription Account You should always start your work in Word for the Web so that your work will automatically save in OneDrive. This will allow you to share your files with your co-workers so you can collaborate immediately. If
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I got a call from a guy who couldn’t turn off his “Caps Lock” key on his keyboard. The keys weren’t sticking or anything but no matter how many times he pressed on it, it wouldn’t go off. He was at his sign-in screen and
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A recent Microsoft publication has sparked off another round of debate over the company’s plans to deprecate the Control Panel in favor of the Settings App. The paper, titled System Configuration Tools in Windows includes a section dedicated to the Control Panel which states the
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Sometimes, as in Windows, you may need to know the version of Linux you are running. Open Terminal and type the following, hitting Enter after: cat /etc/os-release The result: For more Linux information click here. —
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I was trying to install “Wine” in Linux but I can’t seem to get it to work properly. So I had to uninstall it and start over from scratch. To uninstall an app in Linux using terminal, do the following. If you don’t know the
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Control Panel The Control Panel has been with us since the beginning of Windows. Even the most novice of users have probably been sent to the Control Panel at one time or another to change a Windows setting. Microsoft has threatened to deprecate the Control
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Remember the controversy when Windows 10 was first released, all the claims of spyware? Take a look back at Marc’s tongue-in-cheek response to the conspiracy theorists, which elicited quite a few interesting comments. What do you think? Who’s spying on you? Spying is usually defined
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Notepad is a simple text editor that has been included with every Windows version since 1983. However, additions of new features in Windows 10 and more recently in Windows 11 have finally started to bring Notepad into the modern era. New Notepad Features In Windows
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If you have worked with numbered lists in MS Word, you may have noticed that once you have more than nine items in a list, the numbers do not line up properly. Normally we would line numbers up based on the decimal place. This is
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