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I believe one of the most valuable classes I took in school was typing. We had manual typewriters that you really had to bang on to get those keys to work. I learned the keyboard layout and have used that skill ever since but especially […]
Multi-Monitor Wallpaper I like to play around with the customization options of Windows. I was wondering how I could stretch out a background, or span it, over two monitors. For this example, I’ll be using a picture downloaded from Studio Ghibli Movies. Right-click on your
Windows 10 Hibernation “Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in endotherms.” Wikipedia In Windows, too, hibernation is a state of inactivity. It differs from “sleep” in that it consumes no power. When a computer is “sleeping”, a certain power draw is maintained
Color Blindness As many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness. ~ National Eye Institute If you can see a number within each circle in the above image, then you
Windows 10 Game Bar In Windows 10 Microsoft introduced a feature called Game Bar. Its purpose is to give you easy access to screen captures and recording options. If Game Mode is enabled, it will recognize when you start up a game, increase game-related priorities,
Folders Microsoft used to call Folders Directories, but no longer. Now they are Folders, and sub-folders, and forever shall be unless of course, they aren’t. You never know what Microsoft will do regarding its naming conventions. You can do things with Folders in Windows 10
1903 Windows Update If Microsoft remains true to form, then version 1903 will show up on our doorsteps a month late– sometime in April. The problem is that we can no longer trust Microsoft to deliver a bug-free experience. All you have to do is
Windows has long given you a blanket way to change the size of everything you see on your screen. This includes text, images, and everything else that is displayed by both Windows (desktop icons, for example) and any programs you use. Not all programs play
When you see a link on a website while you’re surfing the internet and want to see what it links to, you click it, right? You click it once– not twice, nor thrice. Just once. I like consistency and would like to have my computer
Write Caching Windows versions since way back when have offered a feature known as Write Caching. What this does, if enabled, is send disk write-requests to computer memory (RAM) instead of directly to the much slower hard disk drive (HDD). This frees up applications from
Apparently, one of the world’s leading health issues is a lack of sleep. One of the causes is all our tech– especially bright monitors and other screens before you go to sleep. The problem seems to be the blue light coming from these devices. The
We all know that you can easily change the desktop icon size in Windows by holding down the CTRL key and rolling your mouse wheel. This is a down-and-dirty way to re-size your icons but the spacing remains the same. This week’s Quick Tips article
The Password Quandary Passwords have been around seemingly forever. Try as we may, there seems to be no way to remember them all so we do things like use the same one everywhere. That is easy to remember but makes us vulnerable on many levels.
If you look down by the clock you may or may not see an icon as in my case it looks like the letters ENG. It’s so you can change the language quickly if you need such a service. In older versions of Windows, this
