All articles about Computer Operating Systems
Contacts We all have human contacts stored on our computers. Some of them, we “talk” to all the time and others, not so much. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to open the Start Menu and have your most favorite people sitting right there, […]
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Looking back at 2016 In the lab we have a now ageing Phenom II X4 965, paired with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon 7950 3GB GPU, which has provided sterling service since its original build year of 2010. During that time, I’ve managed to
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Browser Caches By default, all major browsers place their Cache Folders on you system drive (C, in most cases). This may not be what you want and there is a way to move them to a better location. If you use a Solid State Drive
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File Explorer Misbehaves, Badly File Explorer is the default file manager bundled with Windows 10. It works fine for the casual user but, in my case, I spend nearly as much time using a file manager as I do in the browser and believe me,
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The Task Bar Where we all gather with friends and are tasked to enjoy rustic libations. Oh, wait! Sorry… different article. The Taskbar in question is basically the launch pad for your favorite programs and utilities. When using multi-monitor setups it might be nice to
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xternal Drive Letters Easily one of the best devices available today is often taken for granted– the lowly USB thumb drive. We put our portable software on them, our pictures, our music, our all-important backups and just about anything else we can think of. External
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Windows 10 Abuse Due to the nature of my business, I am forever installing/uninstalling programs and utilities. I also abuse Windows 10 with settings changes, and I mean constantly. This is probably not what the average user does, but I find it necessary to not
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Ads and Notifications Microsoft likes to play around with names. Semantics is their game. For example, instead of calling it an “Ad”, they call it a “Suggestion”. What I call “Annoyances”, Microsoft calls, “tips, tricks and suggestions”, or, “Notifications”. Oh, such wit… If you don’t
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Windows Sleep Problems Ever since I first installed Windows 10 on my computer, there has been one niggling, recurring problem– it won’t go to sleep! By searching various forums on the internet and spending countless hours with search engines, I have over time “fixed” this
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Start Menu Tiles The full screen Start Menu with Tiles began its life in the now infamous Windows 8. Most people hated it but I think that is mainly because it was such a huge change from the original Start Menu we had been using
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This will undoubtedly be the quickest Quick Tip in Windows 10 Quick Tips history. I always begin these little posts thinking they will be, well, quick. It doesn’t always end up being that way because sometimes I get long-winded, or sometimes the subject matter simply
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The OneDrive Flyout OneDrive just got a new fly-out on some installations of Windows 10. Here is a comparison of the two: The legacy fly-out displays a simple bit of information telling you how many files and their total size remaining to complete synchronization. DropBox
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I bet you were thinking the title of this article had something to do with the Presidential Election. Gotcha! It has nothing to do with either of the candidates. It is also not about who is superior– Males vs. Females in a “Battle of the
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Notifications Windows 10 provides a Notification Area which, well.. notifies you with App and System information. You also have the option of Enabling/Disabling this feature on a per App basis. What you may not know, however, is that you can also control the Priority and
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