The “RUN” command, or as some purists say the “Command Line”, is a way to access features of your Windows operating system directly – without using the Start Menu, Control Panel, etc.. You can blaze right to “Mouse Settings” without going through the Control Panel for instance. But, if you don’t know the command you can’t do it.… Read More »
For years now, we’ve featured Trend Micro’s “Housecall” as our recommended online virus and spyware scanner. We’ve always encouraged you to run it once a week to double-check your installed anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to make sure they haven’t missed anything. And, we still recommend Housecall as a free online scanner. But, we thought you ought to know… Read More »
Back when we were using Windows 95, we used to figure on a format every six weeks. That’s because about every other month you’d get up and turn on your computer and Windows 95 would not boot. And when it wouldn’t boot, you were done. You got out your little Windows 95 start-up floppy, and boot into DOS… Read More »
Windows 7’s start menu is a vast improvement over the start menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. In fact, except for its lack of a good email program, Windows 7 is the best operating system Microsoft has ever made – at least in our opinion. Still it’s not perfect. The start menu, while improved, doesn’t give you… Read More »
Harold asks about AVG I have MacAfee in my PC now I was going to renew it but the price is very high, I intend to use AVG but after reading this now I have my doubts but I would like some input about AVG. Our answer AVG as well as most antivirus programs with names you’d recognize… Read More »
Carole asks about Facebook and WOT Facebook is now going to use WOT … What will happen, they are already having trouble, what will happen? Our Answer Your guess is a good as ours. WOT is getting a lot of recognition and working their way into a lot of different areas. This is troubling. Not many people really… Read More »