Whispers of Winter

And though today I walk away from things familiar too, I’ll make new footprints in the snow, where once the flowers grew. Guided by a dream unseen; a dream that will not die, My footprints winding through the snow; beneath a twilight sky. Each day I set aside an hour of my day to take a walk. This… Read More »

91% Feel Their Lives Are An Open Book

MOST NOW FEAR THEIR LIVES ARE OPEN BOOK For a long time, people thought: ‘Well, I have nothing to hide,’ one expert said. But we do have things we want to hide, she said, whether it’s credit card information or info about our families SAN FRANCISCO – Americans overwhelmingly think they’ve lost control of how their personal information… Read More »

Why Wait To Get Windows 10? Enjoy Virtual Desktops Right Now!

Enjoy Virtual Desktops In Windows 7 and Windows 8.x One of Windows 10’s new features is one that almost everyone likes and almost everyone can use. It’s called Virtual Desktops. You can switch between desktops just by clicking a taskbar icon. Why is this so good? Well, let’s say you have a document you’re working on and you… Read More »

Think You Need a 3rd Party Defragger? Not so much!

Once upon a time, Windows Disk Defragmenter was not particularly good and not extremely fast. And even in Windows XP, while vastly improved, it’s still not as good as it should be. And considering that there are some techies who think with modern hard drives, defragging isn’t necessary at all. And SSDs — Solid State Drives never need… Read More »

Guest Accounts: Why Ya Needs One I Tells Ya!

This tip is for Windows XP through Windows 10. After all the computers we’ve worked on since February 2012, one thing we have noticed is how many of you have friends, kids or grandkids that use your computer. How many times have we heard, “I don’t know how that got there! It must have been my — son,… Read More »