Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for years I’ve written… Read More »
Sometimes you feel like a case, sometimes you don’t. Just in case you do, how about a case of beer? I need one because I really think EB is a nutcase. But just in case you think we are lawyers and we’ve lost this case, let me explain, just in case you thought we were lawyers. In no… Read More »
Most people think their user account on Windows 7 is an administrator account, but they are only partially right. When you’re logged into your account you’ll notice that sometimes you have to right-click a file and choose “Run as administrator”. If you want complete and total administrator control over your computer, you can do it by creating what’s… Read More »
Terri’s son spends far too much time on Facebook Hi TC and EB — Thanks for all your wonderful help over the years and all the great products and software that you recommend, of which I have bought quite a few 🙂 I have a problem with my son and Facebook, he’s on it all the time and… Read More »
Steve wonders what’s up with CNet What’s going on with CNet? I used to download a lot of software from them, but now they have something called a CNet Downloader with something like CBS Interactive. What’s up with them and does their download install some kind of bundle of spyware? Thanks for the great newsletter. Our answer Apparently… Read More »
Sometimes people make computers seem like funeral homes – all serious and dripping with sadness and problems and details. But computers don’t need to be caskets, they can be baskets of fun. All these fear-mongering fear-o-philes out to make your day miserable or worse, to sell you something you don’t need. Shame on those misanthropes. Today’s Cloudeight Site… Read More »