Category Archives: Windows Tips

Take Control of Notification Icons in Windows 10

Take Control of Notification Icons in Windows 10 Windows 10 is getting very popular – not only because it is free to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users (until July 2016) – but because it’s a great operating system. It’s like a modern day Windows XP. Well, maybe not that good, but certainly one of the best… Read More »

Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Issue 651 Is Available Online

Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Issue 651 Is Available Online Subscribe to InfoAve Premium – it’s delivered every Friday & it’s now free. Here’s some of what you’ll read in InfoAve Premium #651 Questions & Answers We help Julie get her Windows 10 start menu back Anita doesn’t want Microsoft changing her Lockscreen image Scott wants to resolve recurring “Not responding”… Read More »

Microsoft Ain’t Gonna Call You

Microsoft Ain’t Gonna Call You Every week, every single week without fail we get an email from someone who was bilked out of hundreds of dollars by scammers posting as Microsoft employees. They use various tactics to get you to allow them to connect to your computer. The number one way they convince users to allow them to… Read More »

Turn Your Always-on Internet Connection Off

Turn Your Always-on Internet Connection Off First, you don’t need to turn off your Internet. But if you’re using cable, DSL, Satellite, or some other “always-on” internet connection and you do want to turn it off (so it’s not constantly connecting to Twitter, Facebook, etc. etc. etc.) and you’re looking for an easy way to do it, then… Read More »

Easily Add Items Your Windows Send-to Menu

Easily Add Items Your Windows Send-to Menu And how to remove things from your Send-to Menu Too There are about 9 dozen tools that help you add and remove things from your Send-to menu. But, if you want to learn how Windows works, you don’t need no stinkin’ app to add and/or remove things from your Send-to menu.… Read More »

Windows Event Viewer

Windows Event Viewer A lot of people are just now discovering Windows Event viewer because Windows 10 has Event Viewer listed on its right-click menu (when you right-click the start button – or hold down the Windows Key and press  the X key). And apparently easy access to Event Viewer is causing a lot of concern with a… Read More »