Take Control of Your DNS If you have set up your Internet to automatically assign a DNS (Domain Name Service) – and most of you do – then you’re allowing your ISP to control what you can view online, what sites you can visit, and so on. When you allow your ISP to control what you can view… Read More »
Christmas It’s raining now; a cold steady rain pounding the deserted city streets and reflecting the Christmas lights strung around each streetlight post. No one is walking the sidewalks tonight; no one is braving the damp and cold. There are a few cars splashing down the puddled streets, but very few. I hear a dog howling in the… Read More »
Windows Disk Cleanup – The Disk Cleaning Program Every Windows User Has Windows Disk Cleanup is on every Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10 computer. And for those of you who have never used it, you will find it works very, very well. Much better than many of the freeware cleaner programs you’ve… Read More »
Keep a Program Window On Top of All Other Windows EB has a little program she likes that keeps a program window on top of all other windows. Just the other day I needed a program like that but I couldn’t remember the name of the one she uses. But if I wrote her and asked her the… Read More »
Search and Replace Can Save You Time Recently, it came to our attention that many folks don’t know how to use the “find and replace” or “search & replace” (whichever you call it) feature of many Windows programs like MS Word, WordPad, Notepad, and many, many others including a lot of non-Microsoft products. But did you know that Search… Read More »
These tips work for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Most of these work on Windows 8.x and Windows 10 too) Change computer time: Right mouse click on the clock in your system tray (lower far right) or right click in system tray and choose “adjust date and time”. To save a picture/image from a web page,… Read More »