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Uninstallers play an important role virtually throughout the life of a computer. Most brand name PCs come pre-loaded with additional programs many of which are bloatware and superfluous to needs, and most users will need to uninstall programs along the way for any number of […]
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This applies to those who have updated to Windows 20H2. Windows Control Panel’s Slow, Steady Demise Slowly but surely, Microsoft has been whittling away at the decades-old and familiar Control Panel. I, for one, am sad to see it go. Windows 95 was released in
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Many programs set themselves up to start running when you fire up Windows. They run in the background, waiting there until you need them. Sometimes you don’t need them for weeks at a time but they are still using up system resources just the same.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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