1. Sweep your desktop – and keep it clean – and organized – All versions of Windows since Windows 95 have allowed you to auto-arrange your desktop icons by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing “Sort By.” But Windows 7 makes things even simpler. How can it be simpler you ask? Easy! To auto-arrange the desktop icons just… Read More »
The world – offline and online – is full of charlatans, cheaters, crooks and con artists. It seems everyone is out to fool you or trick you into buying something or getting you to give away valuable information about yourself. In the world of “free credit reports” the word free takes on a whole new meaning – free… Read More »
Before we go any further with this tip, you should know that screen dimming during UAC prompts is part of Windows Secure Desktop. This prevents malicious applications from mimicking a Windows UAC prompt and you from mistakenly giving control of your computer to a malicious application. If your system is well protected, you install all Windows patches and… Read More »
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We first featured this program as a freeware pick of the week in 2004. Here it is seven years later and the intrepid EB was browsing one day (she took a break from grazing) and told me I should take a look at AbiWord again because it has been much improved since 2004. It’s nice to hear that… Read More »
It’s kind of hard to describe this program. It’s like a sorter sort of. Well let me put it this way. Imagine you come home from grocery shopping and you have five bags of groceries. Normally you’d have to set the bags down and then start putting away the canned goods, the meat, the cheese, the milk, etc.… Read More »