Category Archives: Windows Tips

Windows 10 Start Menu From A to Z

Windows 10 Start Menu – From A to Z This tip works with Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703), Fall Creators Update (version 1709) and newer. Open your start menu and you’ll probably see your list of programs beginning with programs whose names start with the letter “A” (or a number). Let’s say you want open Windows Accessories… Read More »

Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs

Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs  Today, we’re featuring a great freeware program from Microsoft Tech Net’s Sysinterals. Sysinternals makes several great utilities for Windows and a couple of them we use all the time when we’re doing computer repair. One of them is Autoruns, and another is the application we’re featuring today. Both… Read More »

IRS Scams and Tech Support Scams

IRS Scams & Tech Support Scams It’s tax season here in the USA and that means not only do you have to be careful about tech-support / your-computer-is-infected telephone scams, this time of year you have to worry about tax scams and folks impersonating IRS officials. An IRS agent is not going to call you out of the… Read More »