Ashampoo Photo Commander Pro 27 Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Ashampoo has offered five DCT readers a chance to win a license for its Photo Commander
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Last week we learned how to fix missing thumbnail images in Windows. If you missed that article, you can find it here: How To Fix Missing Thumbnail Images In Windows This week we are jumping subjects and will be talking about Facebook. I have covered
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Check out our DCT Forum. There, you can get answers to your computer questions or just hang out and chat with other Forum members. It will also allow you to help others, which is always a nice thing to do. Try it out! Dave’s Computer
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Windows 11 users will notice an optional update (KB5120998) awaiting action in Windows Update: This update delivers several long-awaited improvements, including a movable Taskbar, a resizable Start menu, and a revamped Search box. However, there are also reports of 2 bugs that appear to be
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Did you know you can get adware on your system on your monitor? Here’s your best defence to stop it. When you plug in a device, Windows automatically downloads and installs the drivers and other software from the device manufacturer. As I understand it, LG
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OnlyOffice is a free and open-source, cross-platform alternative to the costly Microsoft Office. You’ll no doubt already be aware of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, both popular alternatives to Microsoft Office, but OnlyOffice is a less well-known alternative. OnlyOffice Overview While OnlyOffice might be somewhat less feature-rich
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Watch lots of streaming videos by downloading an online playlist. And yes, oodles is a real word. It means a great amount or number. Merriam-Webster: oodles I came across these streaming playlists online. You will need a media player like VLC or PotPlayer that can
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I’ve often sung the praises of Steam because of the many features it offers, but GOG goes one step further when it comes to offline play, DRM-free ownership, and classic game preservation. But one aspect of GOG I had never looked at is the offline
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Microsoft has openly admitted that the right-click context menu in Windows 11 has not worked out for the better. Ironically, when Windows 11 was launched back in 2021, Microsoft said at the time that the Windows 10 context menu had become too long and difficult
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I wrote previously about not being able to turn on my TV. I traced the problem to my Acer Desktop computer being on since I had been using my TV as a monitor. I was trying to figure out what went wrong. My TV isn’t
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If you were here last week, you learned how to clear hidden junk files in Windows. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Delete Hidden Junk Files In Windows I’m going to stick with Windows this week and teach you
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Check out our DCT Forum. There, you can get answers to your computer questions or just hang out and chat with other Forum members. It will also allow you to help others, which is always a nice thing to do. Try it out! Dave’s Computer
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Following on from my recent article How To Dumb Down Your Tech Devices, in which I somehow omitted to mention the privacy issue, the other day I came across a BBC article, Security by Antiquity, which explores why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers.
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I wrote about this problem before: I could not get my TV to turn on without unplugging the power first. For the last couple of mornings, when I got up, my TV was ON. It turned on by itself. If I turned it off for
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