A woman brought me her desktop computer. She said when she starts it up it starts beeping and then goes into Sleep Mode. Research Online indicates it might be a driver issue. One person claims to have solved the problem by cleaning off the motherboard. […]
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A few weeks ago, our own Jim Hillier wrote an article about how Stardock’s Start11 will soon support a vertical taskbar. Start11 is a Windows 11 Start menu replacement utility. It allows a user to personalize the Windows interface and restore functionality that Microsoft has removed.
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Start11 is a popular Windows personalization and customization software from Stardock that includes options to restore classic functionality. One of the most common criticisms of Windows 11 is Microsoft’s crazy decision to do away with the ability to move the Taskbar to the left and
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Windows 11’s Start menu is arguably the worst Start menu ever produced by Microsoft. I don’t use the Start menu all that often myself and the last thing I want is for it to be cluttered with information I neither need nor want. The top
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Last week I upgraded a customer PC with a 240GB SSD and installed Windows 10 Pro. I also gave it a good clean up which involved removing the Intel heatsink, blowing away all the dust that had built up, and reapplying thermal paste. The motherboard
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You can connect remotely to another computer using the Chrome browser and an extension. You will need the Chrome browser, a Gmail account, and the extension, “Chrome Remote Desktop”. One downside to this method is that if you want to connect to someone’s computer remotely,
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I rarely turn off my desktop computer but sometimes I need a restart. Of all the programs that open automatically on startup, I would like my email program, Thunderbird, to be one of them. Thunderbird, at the time of this writing, does not support that
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If you’ve read Part 1 of this series of articles, then you’ve probably now tried out a few Linux distros using the terrific Ventoy multi-boot tool and are ready to install your chosen distro. Comments from readers in response to an earlier article tended to
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A recent article we published posing the question, what would it take for Windows users to move to Linux, elicited a robust discussion and it was clear from the comments received that some folk are still a bit confused about Linux and where to start.
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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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