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If you’re like me, every now and then you need to take a quick peek at the Desktop, but you don’t want to have to go through the hassle of minimizing all the open Windows or losing track of what you’re doing after having to re-open them all.
If you’re using Windows 7, you can always click the Show Desktop icon or right-click on the taskbar and click Show the Desktop, but if all you need to do is take a quick peek at the Desktop, you can simply do the following: [Read more…]
Windows 8.1 is a huge improvement over Windows 8 because it fixes a number of the most despised “changes” that Microsoft made to the newly-designed Windows interface.
One of the most appreciated “fixes” is the ability to have Windows 8.1 boot directly to the Desktop instead of the Start Screen – but this isn’t the default. Follow these steps to make Windows 8.1 boot directly to the Desktop: [Read more…]
A few days ago I wrote a post about a bad Windows Update that was causing many Windows 7 PCs to go into a reboot loop. Inexplicably, Microsoft has yet to release a fix for the issue.
As I explained in that post, if your PC already has the bad update installed and it’s stuck in a reboot loop, you can probably use the System Restore utility to roll back your Windows installation to a point in time before the bad update was installed. [Read more…]
Networking and Internet connectivity is one of the least understood aspects of Windows computing, especially for casual users who aren’t familiar with the internal workings of the operating system.
Everything is all well and good when your PC connects to the web as it should, but when a networking issue arises that causes “Limited Internet Access” – or no access at all, tracking down the problem can be quite difficult for the average user.
Most causes of connectivity issues are actually quite minor, but if you don’t know what to look for or how to go about troubleshooting the issue it can be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. [Read more…]
Passwords have been the “keys” to our online accounts for decades, but Yahoo is now offering users the option to log into their Yahoo accounts without having to remember one.
The new security feature is called “On-demand passwords” and once you have it set up it works like this: [Read more…]