Many of you will know that Windows 11 has some questionable requirements, most notably the insistence on logging in with a Microsoft account at the initial install setup. As a result, numerous workarounds have appeared, many of them on YouTube. However, at least three YouTubers […]
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For the last five weeks, I have been teaching you how to use Roblox. This is important for many of us, particularly us parents. If you missed last week’s lesson, here it is: How To Change Roblox Maturity Settings When you have kids who play
I’m writing this article primarily to show users who are not backing up their system just how easy it is to create system image backups, which represent the ultimate form of disaster recovery. Imaging software, such as Aomei Backupper, allows users to create an exact
Gaming is an expensive hobby, not only for the price of games but also rising costs of hardware. We are all aware of Microsoft’s questionable stance on Windows 11 requirements, and the same is happening in AAA games. For example, DOOM: The Dark Ages and
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A couple wanted me to copy their pictures from their iPhone. They were trying to open their “Outlook” email app, but it was greyed out. When they wanted to open it, they would get a “not enough space” error. I plugged their phone into their
If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 11, I strongly suggest checking which apps are set to auto-start with Windows. How To Check Startup Apps There are several options to view and manage startup apps in Windows 11: Right-click in the Taskbar and select “Task Manager”,
You are scrolling through your onscreen channel guide and wondering exactly what channels you have – three ways to know: 1. You can painstakingly go through the channel guide and write down all the channels. Did I do it? I cannot answer that on the
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Last week, a customer brought a four-year-old Sony Vaio VJFE54F11UAR model laptop to me that wouldn’t boot to Windows and instead went directly to the BIOS. Upon further investigation, it was found that no NVMe drive was installed. I then booted from a WinPE rescue
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If you were here last week, I covered ‘How to Change Display Name on Roblox.’ You can find it here: How To Change Display Name On Roblox This week, like the past four, I want to stick with this subject. Since Roblox is so popular,
Most of us have no idea if our email address has been compromised or not, usually not until it’s too late. Ironically, as part of putting this article together, I checked my primary email address and discovered that it had been compromised via a hack
Recently I experienced an issue with my Windows 11 installation whereby an update was stuck in one of those interminable loops… install/undoing changes/retry/install/undoing changes, on and on. I tried all the usual fixes, including resetting Windows Update components, renaming the SoftwareDistribution and catroot2 folders, etc.,
