Windows will keep track of how much data is being sent to and from the internet. This information will probably be more useful to those of you who are on metered connections. It might also be helpful to know if you suspect a program of […]
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One of the first things I do after installing Windows is to disable some security holes. The first one I address is Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop can be a handy way to help someone with their computer when they are off-premises. Remote Registry is the
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When you fire up your Windows 10-based PC you have a couple of options that you might not know about. Normally, it will ask you for a User name and a Password. If you usually use your PC at home and don’t have lots of
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News Flash!! Left-handed people are not diseased! It wasn’t all that long ago that public school systems punished children for using the “wrong” hand. If you would like to learn more about the evils of being a “southpaw”, visit this AncientPages site. Southpaw – From
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Windows offers two methods of cooling your CPU: Passive and Active. The Passive cooling method adjusts your CPU frequency by throttling it down when things get too warm. The Active method simply ramps up the fan when things get toasty, leaving your CPU running at
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Windows manages all the processes running on your computer. It controls how much memory is allocated to each process and it also controls how much time is devoted to each process in turn. Sometimes, you might want to change the priority of a process if
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Many new and exciting features were added when Windows XP was envisioned and Prefetch was one of them. There were no Solid State Drives (SSDs) available at the time and we were all stuck with relatively slow Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), aka, spinners. The differences
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Computer jargon, as in any field of study, is complicated by the fact that some “things” can go by many names. Today’s discussion about DPI settings is no different. Dots Per Inch (DPI) refers to how many “dots” there are per inch on your monitor.
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Windows loves to help you. It will send you targeted advertising because you will like it, it will give you games that you need that you didn’t know you needed, and it will offer up advice on how to make your computing experience more wonderful
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System Tray Clock Windows 95 was the last version of Windows to display the seconds in the System Tray clock. Microsoft’s reasoning when they removed this feature was, since system memory was limited at that time (measured in megabytes), that continually updating the seconds put
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