Good Email Manners Matter We’ve had hundreds of readers send pet peeves. Do you know what most of them are? They’re about email. Yes, about junky forwards, forwards with everyone else’s address showing up in the cc: field, etc. We started thinking that perhaps many people really don’t know what good email etiquette is, so here are a… Read More »
Your Web Cam – Someone’s Eyeballs On You? Did you know that software exists that can turn on your web cam without your knowledge or consent…and it can do so without the web cam light illuminated? In other words your web cam may be turned on and you would not know it. The same is true of the… Read More »
Add Icons to the Windows 8x Desktop By default (and unfortunately) Windows 8, Windows 8.1 boots into the start screen mode unless you changed it using a 3rd-party program like Classic Shell or you’ve changed it yourself using the Navigation option of Taskbar properties. You can switch between the Windows 8x Start Screen and the Desktop by pressing… Read More »
‘Tis the Season for Telephone Scams We wanted to pass this on to you from Microsoft — this article originally appeared in Microsoft security newsletter. Since so many of our subscribers have written to us concerned about phones calls they received from people claiming to be from Microsoft — it’s especially important that we pass this information along… Read More »
Take Control of Your DNS If you have set up your Internet to automatically assign a DNS (Domain Name Service) – and most of you do – then you’re allowing your ISP to control what you can view online, what sites you can visit, and so on. When you allow your ISP to control what you can view… Read More »
Windows Disk Cleanup – The Disk Cleaning Program Every Windows User Has Windows Disk Cleanup is on every Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10 computer. And for those of you who have never used it, you will find it works very, very well. Much better than many of the freeware cleaner programs you’ve… Read More »