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Aug 18 2023

How To Create Playlist On TikTok

By Jason Shuffield / Leave a Comment

If you don’t already know, I create TikTok videos for my gaming and comedy channels. Here are the links if you are interested in checking them out: Comedy Channel: master_zurich Gaming Channel: Gold Club Gamers While I was working on a new video, I wondered […]

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Aug 17 2023

How To Add Words To Dictionary Using Keyboard

By Carol Bratt / Leave a Comment

As I have said many times, “Nobody knows everything about Microsoft Office.” And yet, I am always amazed at the things that I do not know! I don’t know why but I am!  Thankfully there are folks out there way smarter than me in this

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Aug 17 2023

How To Disable Opera Opening At System Start

By Terry Hollett / Leave a Comment

I didn’t notice this right away because I rarely turn off my main computer. But on one of my backup systems, after one of Opera’s last updates, the Opera browser would start up when I powered on my computer. I don’t know why they did

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Aug 16 2023

Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Very Ugly

By Jim Hillier / 11 Comments

Most users would have an opinion about social media, whether it’s good or bad, and I’m pretty certain those diverse opinions would come down to a generational thing. I am old school and as far as I am concerned, social media is a curse on

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Aug 15 2023

System Restore: Is It A Cure All?

By Jim Hillier / 5 Comments

Many pundits, so-called Windows experts, promote System Restore as the best method for curing PC problems. In my opinion, that is bad advice and System Restore should always be a last resort rather than the first response. If you’re experiencing an issue with your operating

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Aug 15 2023

How To Pause Thunderbird Email Downloads

By Terry Hollett / Leave a Comment

Why do you want to pause Thunderbird from downloading your email? Glad you asked. My email service from Eastlink all of a sudden decided that my Password was invalid. I kept getting an error message claiming the “Authentication failed”. When I click on OK then

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Aug 14 2023

How To Produce A Battery Report In Windows

By John Durso / 6 Comments

For those of us who use a Windows laptop, one of our concerns is the battery. A laptop’s lithium-ion battery performance degrades over time and will not hold a charge for as long as it did when it was new. Getting good information on the

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Aug 11 2023

Steganos VPN Online Shield Overview & Giveaway

By Richard Pedersen / 3 Comments

Steganos VPN Online Shield Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Steganos has generously offered our readers a chance to win one of five licenses for their VPN

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Aug 11 2023

Giveaways & Contests Reminder (Week 3223)

By Richard Pedersen / Leave a Comment

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 are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Expired! Audials

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Aug 11 2023

How To Turn Off Instagram Autosave – Updated

By Jason Shuffield / Leave a Comment

As with last week’s article, I had another question from a viewer. If you did not catch the last article or video, the links are below: Article: How To Find Amazon Video Purchases On TV App Video: How To Find Amazon Video Purchases On TV App

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Aug 10 2023

How To Stop Automatic Data Formatting In Excel

By Carol Bratt / Leave a Comment

Someone wrote to me recently complaining that “Excel keeps changing my numbers to dates!” Obviously, they wanted to know why and if they could fix it and fix it permanently. I have to be honest so full disclosure here – I do not use Excel

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Aug 9 2023

Using OneDrive’s Personal Vault

By Jim Canfield / Leave a Comment

Protected Data We all have data that is best kept protected. If you were ever hacked it would be nice to know that your personal data like tax returns, health records, Deeds, Wills, private photos, or anything you always want is secure. Personal Vault Limitation

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Aug 9 2023

How To Get Starlink Satellite Internet

By Marc Thomas / 4 Comments

  Did you know that millions of people in rural America have a DSL Internet service of between 25- 40Mbps, a quarter of a million still use dial-up and 13 million don’t have Internet access at all? There are probably similar figures for other countries,

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Aug 8 2023

One Simple Rule To Keep You Safe

By Jim Hillier / 2 Comments

This is an area that continues to frustrate me because, despite all the good advice over many years to help folk avoid getting scammed, millions of innocent victims are still losing millions of dollars each year to scammers. Some time ago we published an article

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