
With the number of hacking attempts on the rise, it is prudent to have your computer fully patched up and upgraded to the latest version. With Windows 10, Microsoft chose to go the extreme route… [Read more…]
With the number of hacking attempts on the rise, it is prudent to have your computer fully patched up and upgraded to the latest version. With Windows 10, Microsoft chose to go the extreme route… [Read more…]
by Mark O'Neill
The Windows Registry is the nerve center of Windows. So if the Registry gets corrupted or deleted in any way, the whole deck of cards is going to come crashing down. A good move is… [Read more…]
by Mark O'Neill
In Windows 7 and earlier versions, you could enable or disable startup programs using the System Configuration utility (msconfig.exe). As of Windows 8, the startup program manager was moved to the Task Manager. If you… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
The clipboard on Windows and Mac only holds one item at a time, which can be limiting when you want to copy items from multiple files or multiple places in the same file. Wouldn’t it… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
VLC is a free and open source multimedia player available for multiple platforms, including Windows and Mac. When you install VLC on Windows or Mac, it doesn’t become the default player automatically. However, you can… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
The quickest way to delete cookies is to eat them. But cookies in the online world are small data files websites put on your computer to store bits of information. They’re used for things like… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
There’s nothing worse than losing your Internet connection. One minute you’re happily tweeting away, the next you’re staring at a browser error message. As you mentally curse your Internet Service Provider, you are constantly resetting… [Read more…]
by Mark O'Neill
BlueStacks is a program that emulates the Android operating system on a computer. You can run your favorite Android apps on your Windows or Mac desktop or laptop, and it is free to download and… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
If you try to disable Cortana in Windows 10, you’ll find that the easy toggle setting was removed in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update. However, if you don’t like Cortana, you can still disable her completely…. [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman
User Account Control is a Windows security feature that was added to Vista. It helps prevent unauthorized changes to your system, whether they are being made by applications, other users, or viruses. The UAC dialog… [Read more…]
by Lori Kaufman