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Microsoft Store The Microsoft Store (née Windows Store) is a convenient place to find and download Universal Windows Programs (UWP), more commonly called Apps. On a personal note, I don’t like the term, “apps”. People tend to use it as a general term for every […]
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Windows Is Broken This is an out-of-schedule post, but I had this itch that demanded to be scratched. Beginning of Rant There was a time when I looked forward to Windows updates. It was a time when you could expect bug fixes (if they existed)
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Windows Defender Windows Defender is Microsoft’s answer to antivirus and firewall protection. It has never been at the top of the list when it comes to quality, but admittedly, it has come a long way since the early days. It is now used exclusively by
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Quick Tips Times Two Boot times don’t fall under the “have to have” category. Shortening your boot time by a few seconds isn’t going to make or break your day. Remember the days when you could fire up your computer, then go make yourself a
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Ad Tracking Focused ad tracking is a “feature” included in Windows 10. It creates an Advertising ID specific to you, and allows both Microsoft and advertisers to track your internet surfing habits so when they throw ads in your face, they are targeted at you.
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Windows 10 Updates Troubles This happened on my neighbor’s computer. I was trying to help them with their issues on an Acer desktop running Windows 10 64-bit. Their computer updated on the night before, or early morning on October 1, and the update got stuck
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UWP Apps figure prominently on today’s modern Windows operating systems, and can indeed accumulate to monstrous proportions. A main rule of thumb I tend to spout quite often is, “if you don’t use it, lose it”. Granted, drive space, even SSD space, is no longer
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Crapware We’ve all been there. You find a great little utility on the internet that you can’t live without. You eagerly download it and begin the installation, and what’s this? It wants to also install a copy of Sammy Smith’s Super-sassy Sim demonstration? Or maybe
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Internet Throughput Since the loss of Net Neutrality it has become more important than ever to monitor the behavior of our Internet Service Providers (ISP). There are already reported instances of devious mechanisms being employed by these services in order to increase their ever-increasing bottom
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Over time, I’ve had a few people who have come to me because all of their icons disappeared from their desktop. Show/Hide Icons The solution is simple– right-click on the desktop and click on View. Then check the last option, Show desktop icons. If you
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SmartScreen Included with the Windows operating system since at least Windows 7, if you use Internet Explorer or MS Edge, you may have seen it in action when you try to visit a suspicious web site, or try to download a file that Microsoft deems
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The Windows 10 update sequence has been riddled with bugs over the past few months. July was a particularly bad month where the sheer number of buggy patches was concerned. Not so August, however. August was an uneventful month by comparison, but there was one
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If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time staring at your computer screen, and you probably like to customize it. One thing we like to do is add our own background picture, but even that needs a change every now and then. You
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App Permissions Recent builds of Windows 10 have made it much easier to manage App Permissions. The term “App” is a weird one. Its meaning has changed over the years and now refers mainly to Microsoft store-bought software, or Universal Windows Platform (UWP) progams. I
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