Category Archives: Windows Tips

So You’re All Worked Up Over Tracking Cookies

I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much to do about nothing as I’ve seen recently over Google’s decision to combine all their separate privacy policies into one. And then there’s the flap over cookies. Cookies can’t identify you personally – no matter what you have read –  it isn’t true. They only way a cookie could be… Read More »

Agonizing Over Freeware

Every week we scour the web for really good, honest freeware. It gets harder and harder each week to find good clean – unbundled software. This week we found a program called GimpShop — and having used Gimp before we were intrigued by this new incarnation of Gimp which promised to be every good as Photoshop — only… Read More »

The Good ol’ NUM LOCK Key… What’s It For?

Carrie wants to know what the “NUM LOCK” key is for One thing I’ve always wanted to know is what the key called “Num Lock” key is for. I press it and nothing happens. Can you tell me and other dummies like me what this key is useful for? Thanks, Carrie. Our Answer Hi Carrie, you’re not a… Read More »

Copy Files Faster

There’s a place in your computer life for using file to file backup — but not instead of full drive image backups. But for things like photos, music, documents and videos, keeping a quickly accessible backup folder is a good idea. But if you’ve ever tried copying, say 14GB of data from one place to another in Windows,… Read More »

Trickery From SoftPedia

SoftPedia was once a great place to go for bug-free freeware. The other day I (TC) was working on someone’s computer wearing my Cloudeight Direct hat, when I determined that the customer could benefit from a freeware program. I wasn’t sure of the developer’s Web site URL so I google the name of the program and ended up… Read More »