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I remember telling my college students that when they could not figure something out in less than thirty minutes and were stuck, to seek help. First I would have them explain their problem to someone who knew nothing about it. Perhaps even their mother. As […]
News Flash!! Left-handed people are not diseased! It wasn’t all that long ago that public school systems punished children for using the “wrong” hand. If you would like to learn more about the evils of being a “southpaw”, visit this AncientPages site. Southpaw – From
Windows 10 has become infamous for pushing buggy updates onto our computers. The rule of the day seems to be “deferral” until the unpaid beta testers (that’s us) have had a chance to iron out the wrinkles. The “ring” system is obviously deficient in that
Windows offers two methods of cooling your CPU: Passive and Active. The Passive cooling method adjusts your CPU frequency by throttling it down when things get too warm. The Active method simply ramps up the fan when things get toasty, leaving your CPU running at
I never gave it much thought but there is a difference between the Start Screen and the Start Menu. On Windows 8 we were given a Start Screen. To get to the desktop we had to take another step. Navigating the Start Screen was a
The Windows 10 interface has changed a lot since earlier days. Some are nice new additions and others, not so much. One of the changes I don’t like is the tiny, little, almost hidden scroll bars, particularly in the so-called Apps. If you don’t have
I open up a program sometimes and it’s off-screen to the point I can’t grab the top bar to drag the window elsewhere. So, to move the window, just use the Alt-key and the Space bar on your keyboard . A small menu will open
Windows manages all the processes running on your computer. It controls how much memory is allocated to each process and it also controls how much time is devoted to each process in turn. Sometimes, you might want to change the priority of a process if
It’s over a year since I abandoned the shop and moved lock, stock and barrel into my alternative workshop and I’m pleased to report that the move has had very little negative impact on my work. If anything, my customers have been very supportive, even
Many new and exciting features were added when Windows XP was envisioned and Prefetch was one of them. There were no Solid State Drives (SSDs) available at the time and we were all stuck with relatively slow Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), aka, spinners. The differences
Computer jargon, as in any field of study, is complicated by the fact that some “things” can go by many names. Today’s discussion about DPI settings is no different. Dots Per Inch (DPI) refers to how many “dots” there are per inch on your monitor.
Windows loves to help you. It will send you targeted advertising because you will like it, it will give you games that you need that you didn’t know you needed, and it will offer up advice on how to make your computing experience more wonderful
EasyCAP I’ve been fooling around with TV capture devices on and off for years now. This allows you to hook up your cable/satellite to your computer. I’ve rediscovered this one recently called EasyCAP that I purchased a few years ago. I decided to hook it
System Tray Clock Windows 95 was the last version of Windows to display the seconds in the System Tray clock. Microsoft’s reasoning when they removed this feature was, since system memory was limited at that time (measured in megabytes), that continually updating the seconds put
