One of the most annoying things about YouTube, other than YouTube, is their auto-play feature. That is when one video finishes playing and another starts playing right afterward. There used to be a switch by the Up next section but that is long gone. At […]
Upgrade GPU Drivers and Disable Dynamic Ticking. This is an addendum to the original article on this subject – What Is DPC Latency, How To Fix It. For the full skinny on DPC Latency, you should really read that article before continuing with this one.
I was always a fan of the IObit uninstaller until this morning. It popped up an update message, I allowed it but all I got was three programs I didn’t ask for. Nor was I given any opt-out options. Not a fan anymore. For uninstallers,
I dislike email spam as much as most people, maybe more. For many years I tried various ways to stop or at least minimize spam. I tried systems such as Knujon (“NoJunk” spelled backward), BlueFrog, and Okopipi, but they never worked for me and are
A woman came to me because she wanted some music copied from her phone to a USB flash drive. She wanted to play the music in her car through the USB plugin. When I copy music to flash drives, one thing I check is the
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The official release date for Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system has been announced on the Windows Experience blog. The new version of Windows will become available for compatible Windows 10 devices and preloaded on devices such as PCs and laptops from 5th October 2021. We are
I wrote an article a while back on how you could manage saved eBay sellers. After writing that, I created the How-to video for our YouTube channel. Here are links to both if you are interested in checking them out: Article – How To Manage
In this article, I’ll show you how to save Gmail email to your PC in PDF format. One of the reasons I tend to stick with using an installed email client is because it provides a very easy method to save specific email to the
So we have covered all the ways to open a document in Word, and now it is just fitting that we cover the ways to close documents. This is much, much shorter, and easier. Follow the steps below: Click the Close button (i.e., the X
What Is DPC Latency “A Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) is a Microsoft Windows operating system mechanism which allows high-priority tasks (e.g. an interrupt handler) to defer required but lower-priority tasks for later execution. This permits device drivers and other low-level event consumers to perform the
If you are met with this message when opening a spreadsheet, it’s time to start worrying, especially if you don’t have a backup saved elsewhere. This is exactly what happened yesterday to my wife when she tried to open her most used and valuable spreadsheet
Windows automatically runs lots of programs and services at boot time. You can enable/disable the Services and you can “break” your installation by doing so. We are not going to delve into that dark crevasse today. What we will be talking about are all those
Easy Context Menu is a portable freeware (no installation required) to easily edit and manage context menus. Context menus are those menus that appear when you right-click any file, folder, the Desktop, and Desktop elements. Here is an example of a context menu: Many developers
