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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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Microsoft introduces support for creating 7z and TAR archives directly from within File Explorer. In late 2023 Microsoft introduced support for 11 additional archive formats, they are: .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz, .rar, and .7z. Which means that Windows 11 users
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There is a great feature and shortcut in Word if you have already created section breaks in your document and that is the Go To command. It is used to navigate your long documents by section. Simply click on Home | Editing | Find |
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When you are working with a TOC (table of contents) in Word and you decide you would like to customize something like your page numbers, navigating to the header and footer area is usually the last place you would think to look. So as you
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What is the difference between a page break and a next-page section break? I cannot tell you how many times that question has been asked of me! The simplest answer I can give you is that the first one is merely a page break and
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Changing your page orientation is fairly simple to do. Follow the steps below to learn how: Select the Layout tab and click Orientation, which will open a menu with two options: Portrait and Landscape. Select Landscape – Your section should now appear in Landscape, whereas
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There can be times when you may find it necessary to create a different layout or page orientation in a select page range in your document. Let’s pretend you want the first page to be oriented as portrait. Now let’s also pretend you would like
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