The Mouse Wheel: It’s Not Just For Scrolling, We Tells Ya! You can use your mouse wheel as a mouse button. You can use your mouse wheel to make the icons on your desktop bigger or smaller, text on web pages bigger or smaller, and more. The mouse wheel is not just for scrolling! Pressing down on the… Read More »
When Things Go Wrong Think Of System Restore First This post was updated on 11/25/2019. System Restore is a very useful Windows feature. If you know how to use it correctly it can be a game changer 1. The key to using System Restore successfully is to use it as soon as you notice a problem The longer… Read More »
Windows 10 Calculator is a Conversion Tool Too If you live in the USA like we do, you find yourself doing a lot of conversions, because the rest of the world (or most of it) does not measure things like we do here. Now I could be ethnocentric and try to convince the world they’re wrong and we’re… Read More »
News From the Internet of Things We’ve covered the Internet of things before. It’s a vast and ever-growing non-amalgamated collection of Internet-connected devices ranging from TVs to toasters, pacemakers to refrigerators, radios, phones, computers, tablets – just about everything you can imagine is or may be part of the Internet of Things. Most experts agree that devices on… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #696 – Available Online Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, issue #696, was sent to all subscribers on February 10, 2016. If you didn’t receive it, it’s because your ISP didn’t deliver it, or it’s in your spam folder. We suggest, if you are having problems receiving our weekly InfoAve Premium newsletters, that you subscribe… Read More »
Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell? This tip was written for Windows 10 versions prior to Creators Update. If you’re using Windows 10 Creators Update or newer, see our updated post here. Many of you use the command prompt to run commands such as IPCONFIG, CHKDSK /F, SFC /SCANNOW, RSTRUI, NETPLWIZ and all the other commands we’ve mentioned in… Read More »