There’s a really simple way to print the contents of any folder (directory) by adding a “Print Directory Listing” item to your right-click context menu. If you do this, you’ll be able to right-click on any folder and print a list of its contents. Microsoft describes this procedure here and provides a “Fix-it” that adds the a Print Directory… Read More »
While Revo Uninstaller remains a great choice, we’ve both become fond of Geek Uninstaller lately, for one reason: Simplicity and speed. Geek is faster than Revo Uninstaller and is simpler to use. The user doesn’t have to decide “Are you sure?” when removing leftover items. With Geek you don’t have to select any leftover items, you just click… Read More »
We’ll we finally took the Bing it On challenge. And unlike the people on the TV commercial, we both choose Google over Bing. Bing has done a really good job of copying Google, but the search results were a little weaker and not ordered the same. So we prefer Google. Your results may vary. We like you to… Read More »
We were going to start off by saying that this tip is more for advanced users, but we decided the way beginners and intermediate users get to be advanced users is by digging in and learning new things. Those of you who choose to install Windows 8.1 on your computer should know that it cannot be updated to… Read More »
There seems to be a general belief that the term malware, means malicious software, but that is not true. The prefix “mal” is not an abbreviation for malicious, it is a prefix meaning bad. There are a lot of words beginning with this prefix: malcontent, maladjusted, malevolent, malfunction. So when we use the term malware we mean, literally… Read More »
Penny says, “Help, my router has been hijacked!” My system has been hacked via the Linksys router, and I’d like to know if you folks can fix that and set me up more securely so it won’t happen again. Talked to Linksys Tech Support today, and they offer a “never-get-hacked-again” for $99. Right now I can’t get into… Read More »