The Kindle e-readers are becoming more and more popular. I got my Kindle Fire when they were introduced late last year, and I use it almost every day. I still hear a few people saying, “I will always prefer a printed book over an electronic one” but I think a lot of them will [...] Read more »
You have probably heard about the malicious software programs that suddenly pop up a window and tell you that you have 97 severe threats on your computer and you need to take action to get rid of them. You close the window, and it just opens up again a few seconds later. Sometimes lots [...] Read more »
The procedure for setting a System Restore point is definitely something with which you should be familiar. It may come in very handy some day. What is System Restore? Interestingly, when you use the System Restore feature built into Windows, it does not actually restore your whole system. What it does is this: [...] Read more »
If you got a new laptop for Christmas, probably the last thing on your mind is to let a very young child play with it. Who knows what could happen? But you need not fear – some creative minds have come up with a way to let your little one be entertained by your [...] Read more »
Internet Explorer tends to collect things over time that can cause it to run more slowly. You may have heard of these things – they are called Add-ons, Plug-ins and toolbars. Some can be beneficial, but many are just more annoying clutter that you don’t really need. How do these things get on [...] Read more »
If you are still using Windows XP on your primary computer, it’s time to start thinking about making a change. Don’t get me wrong – I was a big fan of Windows XP. It was stable, reliable, and pretty easy to work with for even a novice computer user. But times change, and [...] Read more »
One of the services I offer is personal computer instruction – one-on-one computer tutoring on whatever you want to learn (I can even do this remotely if you are not in the Tampa Bay area). Recently I was with a client, and she said that someone told her that when using her computer, always [...] Read more »
I got an email last week from a friend who couldn’t seem to find her Windows 7 Recycle Bin – “…I have been trying to find that thing and I can’t seem to locate it. I deleted a photo I want to get back so I went to recycle and discovered it wasn’t on [...] Read more »
This is something that you should know how to do, and it may come in very handy for you at some point. If you have any Word document on your computer now that you would not want some people to see, you can set that document to require a password in order to view [...] Read more »
Back in Windows XP, if you were using Windows Explorer (Start – My Computer), you might click through several layers of folders and subfolders to get to the file you were looking for. Then you realized you went “down” one folder too far, so you need to go “up” one folder. There was this [...] Read more »
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