Still Time to Buy a New Windows 7 PC or Laptop

Dell takes one last shot at selling Windows 7 Home Premium PCs Just days before Microsoft orders OEMs to stop building new PCs with Windows 7 Home Premium, Dell tried one last time to spur sales using the lure of the five-year-old consumer OS. In a banner that ran on its website over the weekend, Dell promoted Windows… Read More »

Cops Allegedly Steal Pics From Womens’ Cell Phones Then Share Them

CHP officers reportedly stole cell phone photos from women in custody One CHP officer allegedly asked for a woman’s iPhone password during her arrest. California Highway Patrol officers have allegedly been obtaining nude photos of female suspects from their cell phones and sharing them among other officers. Sean Harrington, 35, allegedly sent photos from the cell phone of a… Read More »

What Is the Windows Key

What is the Windows Key A number of you wrote to us after a tip we published that required you to press the Windows Key plus the “R” key to open a Run Command. You wanted to know what the Windows Key was. Sometimes we forget that many users really don’t know what the Windows Key is or where… Read More »

Sorry about the bad link in our Friday newsletters

Not that it contains any important information or tips or answers to computer questions or anything, but still we wanted to make it right. Our essay called “General Relativity” contained a bad link when readers clicked on the “Click here to read more” link. We’re sorry about that. For those who wanted to read the rest of the… Read More »

7-Zip is Still the Best

Unzip any kind of compressed file with this freeware program First, before we sing the praises of our favorite free “zip” program, we want to tell you that it works on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10 but 32bit and 64bit sytems. With that out of the way… Yes, we know since Windows XP, you don’t… Read More »