How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can’t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog If you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of trying to shutdown or restart your computer when when your Start menu or taskbar are unresponsive…it can be daunting. One obvious way to to shut down is to simply power off your… Read More »
Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer Many of you use Gmail and if you use Gmail you probably use Google Drive. In fact you can use Google Drive (Google Docs) instead of installing an Office program – Google Drive can open and create most Microsoft Office type files. You can also use Google Drive to store files… Read More »
The Pharmer in the Dell: Redux Ten years ago, in 2005, Dell tried sneaking malware/PUPs onto their computers and we wrote it up and called them out. In 2012 we republished the article ( with some changes ) because Dell again tried to trick consumers into purchasing computers with pre-installed malware and/or PUPs. Well, the more things change, the… Read More »
You Can Control Spam the Way We Control Spam Before we begin, we have never found a program to control spam well enough for us to use it for our business. We’ve tried them all including Mailwasher and the anti-spam components in security suites we’ve tested. They have the same flaws, either they filter out some… Read More »
Cleanup your right-click menu If you are anything like us, you install a lot of software – and uninstall a lot too. Some programs add menu items to your shell context menu (your right-click menu). Many times, in fact most times, when you uninstall a program that has added items to your right-click menu, the items on the… Read More »
You Don’t Have To Have a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10 Microsoft in a 180 degree turn away from its former self has made it very easy for anyone to download, install and use Windows 10 without a product key and without activation. And there’s no time limit on how long you can use it.… Read More »