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It’s official folks, Windows 8 has finally overtaken Vista in terms of overall market share. While this might not exactly be a momentous achievement and Windows 8 adoption rates remain moderate, it does indicate that at least Windows 8 is steadily increasing its market share… […]
We’ve decided to start including the odd video guide as part of our overall service and I have been nominated ‘chief guinea pig’. 🙂 This is a first for me and I openly admit it was a quite nerve wracking experience. I’m not sure why
The area in Windows Explorer known for a long time as “My Computer” and in more recent iterations labeled just “Computer” is generally not terribly customizable. For items such as hard drives and devices to be displayed they first have to be detected and recognized
Windows Basics Although this post is primarily aimed at Windows computer users, it will hopefully provide good advice for any computer owner. Over time it is inevitable that computers get dirty. Not only in the physical sense, but in an electronic way as well. This “dirt”
Windows Basics – Some Tips to Keep That Old Computer Alive Read More »
Even though Windows 7 has been out for a while now, I keep meeting folks who haven’t yet discovered some of the extras that came with it. That’s what blogs are for, eh? Here are a few of my favorite most often used Win 7
ReactOS is an open source project working toward producing a free, fully-fledged NT-based consumer operating system – in its early days ReactOS was touted as the free XP alternative. The main goal of the ReactOS® project is to provide an operating system which is binary
XP Fans don’t despair, ReactOS may answer your prayer! Read More »
This is the third in a series of articles related to Apple’s WWDC 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook and company took the stage at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco on Monday, June 10th for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple senior
In all previous versions of Windows, whenever you right click a file and select “Delete”, or highlight a file and press the “Delete” key, a window pops up requesting confirmation. That is not the case in Windows 8, at least not by default. It’s not
How To: Enable Delete Confirmation Popup in Windows 8 Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows Store got off to a shaky start when it first opened in beta mode in 2012, with virtual shelves that were… well… virtually empty. When Windows 8 and Windows RT were officially launched toward the end of last October, the store included fewer than 8,000
This Windows 8 user guide is available free from Microsoft under the rather fancy name of “Windows 8 End User Training Brochure”. In reality it is a pretty basic guide that doesn’t go into great detail but is however, because of that very reason, eminently
If you have been reading my ‘How To’ articles, you may have read how to turn off Aero Shake and Aero Peek. Today it’s the turn of Aero Snap. This tweak works in both Windows 7 and 8 and again, it’s one of those things
Whenever I am called out to a client’s machine which is running very slowly, one of the first things I check out is the list of programs auto-starting with Windows. It seems to be a pretty common practice these days for software developers to include auto-starting in their products.
Ease of Access in Windows 7 Most of us are fortunate. Most of us don’t have debilitating physical conditions that may require huge adjustments in the way we interact with our environments. Others among us are not so lucky. There are an estimated 21 million blind adults in
Aero Shake! What was Microsoft thinking when they added that complete waste of time? Now maybe you are of the opinion that Aero Shake is a wonderful feature and I am way off with my thinking… then OK, to each their own. Or maybe you
