The Command Prompt – Underused and Misunderstood Underused and misunderstood sounds like a good song title – and I’ll think about writing that one later. Hey! A verse just came to mind: My brain’s underused and I’m misunderstood I am contantly abused and told I’m no good. EB takes a whip to me, and beats me til I’m… Read More »
How to Log In To Windows Without Entering a Password While we think everyone should us a password (or a PIN in Windows 8x and Windows 10), we can understand why some people don’t want to bother with it, especially those who live alone or only have one user account on their computer and trust those who has… Read More »
System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10 In Windows 8x a lot of changes were made and many were not well accepted. However, one generally well-liked feature of Windows 8x was improved in Windows 10. In Windows 8x there was a System Refresh and a System Reset and the few people who knew about it were… Read More »
Turn Off Microsoft Office Advertising in Windows 10 Windows 10 is — until July 29, 2016 — a free update for everyone who had Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1. That’s great and we think Windows 10 is an exceptional operating system — the best since Windows XP. But that does not mean Windows 10 does not have… Read More »
Emsisoft Wins Again We’ve been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. After Microsoft Security Essentials started going down hill and Malwarebytes decided to ignore many PUPs, we got busy and started evaluating security products. What we were looking for was not a security suite with all kinds of useless stuff (Spam Blockers, site raters, etc.) but a… Read More »
What are PUPs? PUPs are not things; PUPs is an acronym for Potentially Unwanted Programs. It really should be PUS, Potentially Unwanted Software – but PUS doesn’t sound very nice – though PUS might be closer to what you get when you install PUPs (or malware) on your computer. PUPs are what antivirus/antimalware companies call some malware so… Read More »