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Millions of users have updated their PCs from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, but plenty of others haven’t installed the update and they have no intention of doing so in the future.
If you are one of those folks who really don’t want to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft is planning to make it harder to avoid it in the coming year. [Read more…]
Microsoft first introduced the Windows Store along with Windows 8, and now that Windows 10 is here the Windows Store and its many available apps are included with it as well.
The Windows Store is simply a collection of lightweight Windows apps that you can download and install on your Windows PC.
Some of those apps are actually quite useful, but many others offer little if any real value at all. Even worse, a few of them are nothing more than adware and junkware. A perfect example is the much-hated “Get Office” app that I wrote about in a previous post. [Read more…]
If you’re still running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you’ve surely noticed the little “Get Windows 10” icon that’s been sitting in your PC’s notifications area for a while now.
It’s no secret that Microsoft has been trying to get as many people to upgrade to Windows 10 as possible, but up until now you had to actually make a conscious decision to install the update and initiate the process on your own. Well, that has now changed! [Read more…]
Many of the tips I post on this blog require pasting content into a “Command Prompt” window.
That’s really no big deal because we could always right-click and then click Paste, but many of us prefer pasting with the much faster CTRL-V key combination.
The problem with Windows has always been that CTRL-V simply didn’t work at the Command Prompt. Instead, we had to paste using the mouse. [Read more…]
Question from Carla T.: I have a 3 year old MacBook that’s running OS X Mavericks and my son has been bugging me about upgrading the OS X to El Capitan.
I’m hesitant to do that because everything is running great and I don’t want to mess anything up.
I’m really confused about what to do because I’ve heard horror stories about upgrades that go wrong and trash the system. Do you think I should upgrade or not?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]