A Brief (Pictorial) History of Windows We’re going to take look back at the history of Windows. Darcy started with Windows 3.1 and I started with Windows 95. We’ve been using Windows for well over two decades and we’ve seen Windows at its worst and at its best. We hope you enjoy this brief and non-technical look at… Read More »
You Can Make a Batch File to Clean Up Your PC… Yes You Can! First things first” This tip will work on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and all versions of Windows 10. So, my friends, have at it! Back in the days of yore — i.e. DOS — batch files were used by geeks to do all sorts… Read More »
Ctrl Key Shortcuts to Save You Time Today, we’re going to remind you about one of the most basic time-saving things you can use in your daily computing life. Shortcuts. In today’s post we’re going to remind you how handy Ctrl Key shortcuts can be — and why you should use them whenever you can. They will save… Read More »
Anti-Twin: A Duplicate File Finder That Works After years of trying and rejecting all kinds of duplicate file finders, either because they were distributed with garbageware, bundled with malware, or were too aggressive thus leaving reeling users with tears rolling down their faces because the files that some duplicate file finders found were not dupes at all, we… Read More »
How to Change or Reset Your Microsoft Account Password If you sign in to Windows 10 using a Microsoft account and you’re getting a notification your Windows 10 that says “Microsoft account problem: We need to fix your Microsoft account ” and you’re having problems resetting or recovering your Microsoft account password, this tip may help you. In… Read More »
Microsoft account problem: We need to fix your Microsoft account We are seeing more and more people who are suddenly getting a popup on their Windows 10 computer saying “Microsoft account problem. We need to fix your Microsoft account”. There doesn’t seem to be a specific cause or any rhyme or reason to who gets this error and… Read More »