Help! My Windows 10 Start Menu Disappeared! Numerous times now, we’ve received emails from people wanting help because their Start menu on Windows 10 disappeared. Many times this will happen after an update, so it’s natural for people to think something went wrong and they start menu is gone forever. But not so fast! Not so fast! Have… Read More »
Microsoft Plays Games With Silverlight To play certain videos, like Netflix and videos on Microsoft’s site, you’ll need to install Microsoft Silverlight. And we’ve hammered Sun (Java) and Adobe (Flash Player) for trying to sneak software unto people’s computers or hijack their search engine and/or browser Start page. It’s bad enough that Sun Java and Adobe Flash Player… Read More »
A Windows 10 Menu You Probably Never Knew You Had No matter how much you think you know about Windows, we’re always finding something new. Well, maybe not new, just different. The Accessories menu is on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Back in the days of XP, Vista, and even in… Read More »
Can you see your mouse pointer? This tip is for Windows 10, but it should work on Windows 8x and Windows 7 too. I don’t want to sound old (EB is old too), but lately I’ve been moving my mouse around and I can’t see my darn mouse pointer. Most pages web pages have white or very light… Read More »
Identify Annoying Audio from Web Pages This tip is for Chrome, Firefox and Edge Users Many sites, especially news sites, have delayed auto-start videos (or audio ads) on their pages. When surfing multiple pages, you may suddenly hear the audio, but finding which page it is on meant going through each open tab; sometimes I have 15 or… Read More »
How to Change Your Download Folder By default, when you download a file in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge or most any other browser, your files will be downloaded to your default download folder. On Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10, your default download location is: C:\Users\Your Windows User Name\Downloads But what if you want have a… Read More »