Phone Scams – a reminder All Windows Users Even after writing about phone scams many times, it never fails that we get two or three emails every week from people who were scammed by telephone calls that supposed came from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, etc. in which someone told them their computers were: 1. Spreading malware 2. Infected with… Read More »
How to add familiar folders to your Windows 10 Start menu If you are use to using Widnows 7, you’re probably wondering where things like Pictures, Documents, Network, Download, Music, etc. are on your Windows 10 Start menu. They’re not there. At least they’re not there by default. But we going to show you how to add them… Read More »
Making your desktop icons and taskbar icons bigger on Windows 10 Recently we’ve had several people who asked how to make desktop icons and taskbar icons. And before we get flooded with suggestions for programs that promise to do this, (there are some programs that will do some of the same things as we show below) and some will… Read More »
How to change your start menu and taskbar colors in Windows 10 You have a beautiful desktop, pretty autumn leaves mostly yellow and orange with a little brown and red. Looks great. However your start menu background looks awful – looks like pooey brown. Ugly! (Is pooey a word?). How on Earth did your Windows 10 start menu… Read More »
First Major Update to Windows 10 Coming in Early November Windows 10 Fall update The first big update to Windows 10 is coming in early November. And while it is not a massive update (like a Service Pack would be) it still contains a lot of changes and fixes. Most of them we feel will be welcomed by… Read More »
Control Panel to a T This tip was suggested by Patrick a Cloudeight reader. When we tried his tip, our clumsy typing led us to this discovery… we call it “Control Panel to a T”. This tip is about as simple as tips get, yet it opens up a whole new world of Windows. With this tip you… Read More »