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Jul 13 2017

How To Change Your Display Name In Skype

By Jason Shuffield

Skype Many of us still use Skype for talking with friends, family, and business associates or even gaming (yep gaming… you Streamers know what I’m talking about). Yes, Skype is still around and being used by more than 74 million users as of 2016 according […]

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Jul 13 2017

Windows 10 Quick Tips – More Free Drive Space

By Richard Pedersen / 7 Comments

How To Free Up Drive Space If you are lucky enough to own a Solid State Drive (SSD), then you know that drive space can sometimes be at a premium. Windows uses your drive to hold a lot of things other than the operating system.

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Jul 11 2017

How To Fix Chrome With A New Profile

By Terry Hollett / 14 Comments

Fixing Chrome I was trying to help someone work out their Facebook issues but was unsuccessful. They where using Chrome on an XP system with 500 MB RAM. They could get into Facebook, but couldn’t play the games. They already ran an antivirus scan. I

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Jul 10 2017

Top 5 Retro Game Websites

By Jason Shuffield / 2 Comments

Retro Games Searching for your Childhood The other day, my wife asked me the name of a game she remembered from her childhood. She had been searching for it but had been unsuccessful so far. She thought it was a game from 1980’s or 1990’s

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Jul 7 2017

Giveaways & Contests Reminder (Week 2717)

By Richard Pedersen

Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways in the following list are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s

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Jul 6 2017

What Are Environment Variables

By Richard Pedersen / 2 Comments

Environment Variables Since its inception Windows has used environment variables. In fact, all modern operating systems use environment variables in one way or another. These variables are used by Windows and programs you have installed to basically know where everything is, and where to put

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Jul 5 2017

Windows 10 Quick Tips – Login Screen

By Richard Pedersen / 2 Comments

Login Screen The Windows 10 Login Screen is the first thing we see when firing up Windows. It displays a generally beautiful image. Even a beautiful image, when seen over and over again, can become boring. How about we change it up a bit? You

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Jul 4 2017

Wonderfox DVD Video Converter Giveaway

By Richard Pedersen / 5 Comments

In celebration of the July 4th holiday Wonderfox and DCT have joined forces to provide you with an exclusive opportunity to get a licensed copy of DVD Video Converter! This license normally costs $39.95 (US), but for a limited time DCT readers will have one

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Jul 3 2017

How To Cut/Split Movies With MP4 Splitter

By Terry Hollett

Movies From The Internet Archive I recently downloaded an older movie from the Internet Archive. Basically, this organization is dedicated to backing up the entire Internet. Anyway, the movie was in MP4 format and it had a bunch of informational promotions in the beginning of

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Jul 2 2017

Happy 4th of July From DCT!

By Richard Pedersen / 3 Comments

Dave’s Computer Tips would like everyone to have a safe and happy 4th of July holiday! Thank you one and all! —

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Jun 30 2017

Giveaways & Contests Reminder (Week 2617)

By Richard Pedersen

Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways in the following list are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s

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Jun 29 2017

How To Clear Your Android Cache

By Jason Shuffield / 3 Comments

What Is A Cache? Here is something I think is important as an owner of an Android phone. What is this important something? I love that you are paying attention. The important “something” would be finding out where the place is on your phone that

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Jun 28 2017

TeraCopy Revisited – Is It Really Faster?

By Richard Pedersen / 10 Comments

TeraCopy “I’ve always maintained, and still do, that no matter what the advertisements tell you, your file transfer speeds are limited by your hardware. No software solution, no matter how sophisticated it may be, will increase those speeds. Granted, with some slick caching tricks, it

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Jun 28 2017

Windows 10 Quick Tips – 3 Annoyances

By Richard Pedersen

Windows 10 Annoyances When you upgrade to Windows 10 there are at least three things that will probably nag you, especially if you never plan to use those features. Those three being: OneDrive nag, Get Skype nag, and Get Office nag. I use OneDrive and

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