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Back in the old days of Windows XP, we had a Quick Launch bar that when clicked next to the Start button would pop up a list of programs to access quickly. When installing a program today, I sometimes find a checkbox to allow the […]
Photos is a program included with Windows 10. When I read the following description on a Microsoft page I thought it was describing Google Photos. It seems to me Microsoft has borrowed a number of ideas. The Photos app in Windows 10 gathers photos from
Tales of woe. The customer is always right. Well, maybe not always, perhaps very seldom… Hard Drive Full Some years ago, when I upgraded my laptop, I gifted my old Asus laptop to son number two. The laptop was quite old then and must be
Have you seen videos where you watch a seed grow into a flower? That’s a time-lapse video. I will show you how to do a simple time-lapse video using what’s built into Windows. Open the camera app. Either find it in the Start menu or
With any job, you probably have to work in Microsoft Word. That is no different for me and sometimes I need to convert that Word doc into a PDF. I have written a few articles on working with PDFs. Here are a few you can check
Last week we published an article about the latest Windows 10 update (2004) and what new features/changes it introduces. I openly admit there is not much among the list of changes that I find overly exciting. For years now users have been complaining about various
Hold your breath folks, the next major Windows 10 update is now rolling out! Seriously, no need to be concerned as Microsoft is adopting a much more sensible approach to this latest feature update than it has previously. First of all, Microsoft is rolling out
A number of reader comments in response to a recent article brought to my attention that some users might be a tad confused about the function of Windows Security as opposed to Windows Defender. I hope what follows will help clarify. Windows Defender vs Windows
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Sometimes your browser can get screwed up. I recently had to reset it for a woman to clear it out. Resetting Edge brings it back to using all its default settings. Here is a quick, simple way to get at those settings from the Start
If you’ve been a Windows 10 user since its first release, or have been updating Windows 10 through multiple new builds, you will likely see that your hard drive now contains more than one recovery partition. These partitions do not display under ThisPC and you
Back in February, we reported that Edge was edging closer to Firefox in the desktop browser market share with numbers for January showing Edge at just a single percentage point behind Firefox. I said in that article… ”I don’t believe it will be too long
Almost every time Microsoft releases updates for Windows 10 we read about more issues caused by these updates. Indeed, one well-known site pretty much makes a living out of reporting all these problems with Windows Updates. I have often gone to bat for the users
We recently published an article discussing how Q4OS Plasma edition could easily be installed inside Windows. At the end of that article, I promised to check out the Q4OS Trinity edition, a lightweight Debian-based Linux distro that resembles XP. So here it is. Q4OS Trinity
The simple answer to that question is “NO”. They may be using your data but only if you give them permission. I know that some readers have trouble accepting that as a fact and I truly understand your position. If you were to believe only
