Fixing Blank Icons Have you ever experienced blank photo icons on your Desktop or in a Folder? Instead of seeing that thumbnail image of your last vacation, it appears as a blank image with an icon of the default application for opening photos on your […]
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I had some issues with Opera, my main browser, now called Opera One. Opera Update Breaks Opera So I decided to use Opera GX until I got Opera One cleared out. One problem I had with Opera GX was getting the Speed Dials to show.
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Microsoft PowerToys v.0.70.0 This utility was first introduced with the release of Windows 95. Microsoft has largely ignored the application until this new release. It is basically a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience to give you to
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I never thought for a second that I would be editing videos on a mobile phone because over the years I’ve become so accustomed to using my PC for demanding tasks, that it simply never occurred to me. Of course, editing photos and other similar
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This is a follow-up to a previous post on this subject. And I think you will find it interesting but you have to have read the previous post so that it will make sense to you. This will be the third method to achieve your
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I’m a long-time supporter of Opera but the latest update destroyed my browser. My background wouldn’t work. The interface was too large. Normally, I would adjust it through the DPI settings in the shortcut but even that wouldn’t work. Is Your Opera Interface Too Big?
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On a Facebook chat room, I saw someone inquiring if there was any way to highlight all text with additional formatting applied (i.e., formatting that is not part of the Word style for that text). Well, yes, there is more than one method of making
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Image Creation – Part 2 If you have not already read Part 1, you can check it out on this How To Use AI – Part 1 page. If you have, then you know that the AI image Creator in Bing is an amazing feature,
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It’s probably been there all along but I only recently noticed the “My Pictures” folder listed for media in the playlist view of VLC. “Ctrl + L” toggles the playlist view on or off. Or go into “View” (top menu) and click on the first
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Jim Hillier recently wrote an article explaining firewalls. In it, he posed the question, Is Windows Firewall good enough? Jim concluded that while a business may need an expensive enterprise-level firewall, the included free firewall is fine for the average Windows PC user. It is
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