Sharon wants to know of another way to book into Safe Mode Hi guys. I love your newsletters. In the past couple weeks I’ve had to boot into safe mode. Pressing the F8 key either holding it down or tapping the F8 key when my computer is booting doesn’t always work for me. Sometimes I have to do… Read More »
Marty wants to know if we have an alternate free image-based backup tool Hi. Love your newsletters! I have been following your recommendations for years. You’ve been recommending Paragon Backup and Recovery free for awhile. It may be a great program but it’s too complicated for this old man lol. Is there another backup program that makes image… Read More »
EB and I argue all the time about Internet Explorer. I say it’s junk; she says it’s great. It’s a matter of personal taste. Or is it? Does your browser make a difference? As with all things on the Internet, misinformation abounds. There’s only one sure way of testing how fast a browser is — that is by… Read More »
It came to our attention this week that many people still send large attachments via email. That can be a problem. Some ISPs have a limit on the size of attachments you can send. Web mail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc.) have limits too. Since most people have high-speed Internet access – it’s tempting to send a 40MB… Read More »
When you hover over an icon of a program which is running in your task bar on Windows 7 you will see a live “thumbnail view” of the program window. If you would like to be able to open the program window just by hovering over its icon, you can easily do that in Windows 7. You may… Read More »
I like to view most of my folders as a detailed list vs thumbnails/icons, but I have several folders with photos and images which I like to view as thumbnails. You can have the best of both worlds with this little tip: If you have all folders set to view as a detailed list, and want to make… Read More »