Category Archives: Windows Tips

Every Program You Allow to Start With Windows Runs With Windows Sapping Juice From Your Computer’s Memory: Control Your Startups!

Autoruns for Windows Start-up program manager Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32/64bit) 524KB download There are about seven-zillion start-up managers. I think we’ve featured about 60% of them at one time or another. This redundancy is not without purpose. We are sticklers for eliminating excess start-up programs, because start-up programs run in the background soaking up your precious… Read More »

Maybe Google should Duck?

So your eyeballs are focused on the duck below. What duck? Get a bigger monitor. Get them back up here. I have a story to tell you. Don’t worry, it’s short. I promise. Once upon a time there was a little girl named EB. She looked an awfully lot like ET. When I first saw her in the… Read More »

Controlling Active Windows using your Keyboard

If you are like TC, a control freak, and you’re  busy all the time, you probably have many windows open at once. Clicking your mouse can be tiresome and time consuming.. at least for TC who thinks more than one step to complete a task is more than anyone should endure (i.e., going all the way to the… Read More »

How to recognize phishing

Phishing is a type of deceptive email or message designed to get you to divulge your valuable personal data, such as credit card numbers, account IDs, or passwords, other account data and passwords, or other personal or financial information. In other words   phishing schemes are devised to trick you into giving up your personal information. You might… Read More »

“Help! My computer won’t let me…”

Joseph says Zone Alarm won’t let him access a site My Zone Alarm will not let me access the ‘TinyURL’ that you are using in your newsletters, thus denying me the ability to read the rest of the articles. Can you use something else to shorten the original URL, or somehow advise how I may access these? I… Read More »