Avast Buys CCleaner Then Distributes an Infected, Hacked Version to Users We’ve cautioned users against trusting their computers to Avast many times. We based this on the number of computers we’ve worked that had Avast installed and that were infected with malware. We written several warnings about Avast, for instance this one that we wrote in 2014. In… Read More »
Simple Little Windows 10 Tips Windows 10 / all versions Peek at Your Desktop Did you know if you click the very far right edge (to the right of the clock) you will go to your desktop? Indeed you will. Now how would you like to peek at your desktop just by hovering over the far right edge… Read More »
Power Searching with Google In our InfoAve Premium newsletter, issue #727, in our Site of the Week section, we featured, “Be a Power Searcher with Google’s Free Online Courses”. We did a feature on Google’s power searching courses because we know how important it is to be able to find what we are looking for as quickly as possible.… Read More »
Control Panel: Category view vs. Icon view This tip works in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 Many times when we write a tip, we’ll write about using Control Panel and switching to “Large icon view” or “Icon view” rather than category view. It just dawned on us, that we’ve never covered the difference, and why using… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #727 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, issue#727, was sent to all subscribers on Friday September 15, 2017 at approximately 12:50 PM, U. S. Eastern… Read More »
Unresponsive Program? Try This to Keep From Losing Data This tip is for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 In earlier versions of Windows if a program froze (hung, locked-up) there was nothing you could do about but kill the program using Task Manager/Processes/End Process. But Windows 7 and 8 users have at least a shot at… Read More »