The Old Oak and the Christmas Tree Place Revisited Preface This story started twenty years ago when my youngest son, Kevin, was 14. I wrote this essay when he was a freshman in college and living away from home for the first time. He’s 34 now and has a family of his own. Though the world has changed so… Read More »
How to Delete “Previous Windows Installation” Files After Upgrading to Windows 10 When you upgrade from Windows 7, or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, your system will save a copy of the entire C drive and it can be quite a few gig in size. We helped a customer regain over 400 gigabytes of space on her system by… Read More »
How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10 If you’re having problems with your computer, one easy way to find out if there is a conflict with your software or processes is to do a clean boot. Before we show you how, this is not something you’re going to want to do on a whim. You may… Read More »
Stop Windows 10 From Spying On You Sometimes we just can’t resist the urge to play the Sensational-Headlines-Game. While it’s true that Windows 10 is spying on you, so is just about everything else, including the ever-enshrined Apple operating systems and Android/Chrome. Woe is us. We live in the age where information equals money. If you don’t like… Read More »
Setup Yahoo Mail in Outlook and Other Email Clients First, we don’t want you to think this is some kind of endorsement for Yahoo Mail. It is not. We think Yahoo is the least secure one of the three “name brand” web mail services (Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo); we are not advising anyone to sign up for Yahoo. However,… Read More »
How to Shutdown or Restart Your Computer When You Can’t Access the Start Menu or the Shutdown dialog If you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of trying to shutdown or restart your computer when when your Start menu or taskbar are unresponsive…it can be daunting. One obvious way to to shut down is to simply power off your… Read More »