UAC (User Account Control) is another Microsoft workaround in their never-ending battle with hackers as Microsoft tries to keep us Windows users safer. But turning off UAC isn’t a good idea. But we all know too well how those UAC prompts can get annoying. There’s a little program (330KB) that can tame UAC for you without turning it… Read More »
Y’all know about things like DropBox and other cloud-based storage systems, right y’all? I picked up the y’all from EB, she’s never lost her Southern drawl in all these years since she was a little girl growing up in the South in the 1940’s. 🙂 Some of you use DropBox and other such cloud-based storage systems and but… Read More »
Jump Lists are a feature in Windows 7 that shows you recently accessed files for a particular application or recent tasks related to an application. Most commonly, Jump Lists are accessed by right clicking an application icon in Windows 7 taskbar. But Jump Lists can also be accessed by left clicking an application icon and while holding the… Read More »
Rom disagrees with our opinion about Internet Explorer’s Smart Screen I totally disagree with your comments on Widows Smart Screen. It is a warning. that makes you ask yourself “Do I trust the source of this program?”. The source is Information Ave and I trust them because they test the program before they recommend it. You test a… Read More »
Linda and the continuing saga of junk mail (or why “block sender” never works) I use windows live as my email and I was very proud that I only had two or three junk emails a month but a couple of weeks ago instead of deleting the junk then looked under sweep and saw block sender so I… Read More »
Darlene has problems with Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 I am using Windows 7, 64 bit, Home edition on a Toshiba laptop that will be one year old tomorrow. I have updated to IE 9 and it is driving me nuts! Every time I close a tab, I get an error message opening in the center of… Read More »