Two things we always harp about: strong passwords and mirror-image backups. You’re sick of hearing about those two things, but someday you’ll thank us. You’ll thank us when your friend’s Hotmail account is hacked because she was using a password like 12345 – and your account is safe because you listened to us and yours was 99%2Ld4e6Z$4 .… Read More »
You have Windows Media Player (WMP). Yes you do! But then you have to download something else to play Quicktime, and something else to play 3GP files, then something else to play RealMedia files, then something else to play some other kind of file. Oh yes, you might be able find “codecs” for Windows Media Player, but you… Read More »
We received the following comment from Terri on our Information Avenue site this week. We found it interesting – and we think you will too. “One of our websites was hit on June 12, 2011, by one of the “Platinum” users using the “Mass Rating Tool”. If you look at all of his “Posts”, about a hundred have… Read More »
It’s always good to have a boot disk handy. If you ever get into a situation where your computer simply won’t boot – and you haven’t followed our instructions and created a full image back up (and we know some of haven’t) – there’s no time like right now to make a boot CD/DVD or USB. to start… Read More »
Does it really matter? No. Will it make your computer faster or run better? No. What good is it? None. But it’s fun, and sometimes you just need to do stuff because you can. Maybe you want to put a picture of your wife or husband on your logon screen. No? What about a picture of Rufus –… Read More »
Some of you have folders you access often and often leave open during you Windows session. But every time you reboot, you have to go back an open those folders again. If this sounds like you, do you know that Windows 7 allows you to restore those open folders automatically – every time you reboot? Yes, there is… Read More »