Sundry Web Sites for All Seasons Hurry up it’s Halloween, Halloween, Halloween First, Halloween is coming up ( I suppose if you’re reading this several months from now, it’s still coming up) soon…and some of you like to decorate your desktop with wallpaper appropriate for the season. We’ve been around the web a long time – in fact… Read More »
Making your desktop icons and taskbar icons bigger on Windows 10 Recently we’ve had several people who asked how to make desktop icons and taskbar icons. And before we get flooded with suggestions for programs that promise to do this, (there are some programs that will do some of the same things as we show below) and some will… Read More »
How to change your start menu and taskbar colors in Windows 10 You have a beautiful desktop, pretty autumn leaves mostly yellow and orange with a little brown and red. Looks great. However your start menu background looks awful – looks like pooey brown. Ugly! (Is pooey a word?). How on Earth did your Windows 10 start menu… Read More »
First Major Update to Windows 10 Coming in Early November Windows 10 Fall update The first big update to Windows 10 is coming in early November. And while it is not a massive update (like a Service Pack would be) it still contains a lot of changes and fixes. Most of them we feel will be welcomed by… Read More »
PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple Can you say: “PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple”, fifty time really fast? Ha! Whatever email program you use, you’ve likely encountered this problem: You’re writing and email and you copy text from a Web page or a Word doc or PDF file, and paste it in your email. You… Read More »
Control Panel to a T This tip was suggested by Patrick a Cloudeight reader. When we tried his tip, our clumsy typing led us to this discovery… we call it “Control Panel to a T”. This tip is about as simple as tips get, yet it opens up a whole new world of Windows. With this tip you… Read More »