Desktop Search For Windows 11 One of my biggest disappointments with the release of Windows 11 was the removal of the Taskbar Search next to Cortana. I seldom used Cortana but having the ability to quickly enter any text right into the search bar made […]
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CCleaner certainly has a faithful following. Seems every time I write anything negative about the popular junk file cleaner, there are plenty of users prepared to jump to its defense. I’ve been messing with computers for over 40 years, have been fixing and building computers
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I updated OpenOffice today and discovered that the spell checker wasn’t working. I know because I’m used to seeing a sea of red squiggles on my page. So either I just became a champion speller or more than likely there was something wrong with OpenOffice.
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Renaming files in sequential number order is something you might want to do under certain circumstances. A typical example would be a group of photos pertaining to some special event. It is very easy to do and only takes seconds. In the example that follows
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In-place Upgrade To Windows 11 Having written the article Five Reasons Why Windows 11 Sucks back in February you would be forgiven for asking why I bothered to install Windows 11 at all. But then, one needs to experiment and since I have five or
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I have written about cloning WordPress sites before and because I moved to a new hosting company some months ago, the process was a little different. Having built a new website for the Spanish version of my book, I needed to create a mirror image
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If you have not been living under a rock you have probably heard of TikTok. This app has become a big part of my business (creating gaming videos). It also is something that I like using to create funny videos to share with others. Yep,
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Myriad types of graphic objects are considered to be illustrations in Word. Don’t think so? Well, you can actually see them by clicking on Insert | Illustrations. As you can see, there are several illustrations, as delineated below: Pictures – These are normally photos or
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Just a quick tip. Sorry, no screenshots. My sister was having trouble logging into the Facebook app on her Android phone. She would log in and everything seemed Ok for a few seconds, then she would get a Login Session Expired message. She would log
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Remember the sidebar gadgets from the Vista/Windows 7 era? Microsoft ended up removing the sidebar and gadgets from subsequent Windows versions because of some perceived security risks. I loved those gadgets and immediately went looking for an alternative and was fortunate to come across the
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Following Jim Hillier’s excellent article, How To Easily Decrapify A Windows PC, I just came across another handy program, Bloatbox, that will rid you of apps/programs that Windows thinks you need. In fact, I have recently been playing with an old Sony Vaio which one
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Window’s Tools Are Not Enough? Startup Files are more than the automatic startup of just Programs or Apps. In fact, a startup file can be a system-driven file that Windows uses to make Windows work. It can be user-installed programs or apps; it can be
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I recently came across a backup of my old web page from Oct 2002. I decided to share some highlights from back in 2002. First, I wrote about using an uncompressed drive. This was back in the Win 95, 98, 98SE, and later the ME
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