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Tips for speeding up a sluggish Windows PC

Posted on January 17, 2021

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Modern personal computers are amazing machines.

They allow us to do things in minutes that once took hours or days as well as many other things that couldn’t be done at all in times past.

But even with all their awesome power and capabilities, computers are no fun to use when they’re running slowly and freezing up at random times.

Today I’m going to discuss a few things you can do to help speed up a sluggish PC and hopefully avoid having to deal with erratic system performance.

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This awesome tool will quickly lock down ALL of Windows 10’s privacy settings

Posted on December 31, 2020

As you probably know by now, Windows 10 is a nightmare when it comes to privacy.

To be blunt, if you accept all of Windows 10’s default privacy settings you won’t have much privacy at all while you’re using your PC.

There are almost two dozen important privacy settings that need to be changed in order to lock down your privacy as much as possible, but unfortunately they’re scattered all over the place throughout your Windows 10 installation.

That makes it very difficult and time-consuming to make all those tweaks, and the task can be virtually impossible if you don’t know where to find all of them!

Luckily, an awesome free tool called Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes it very easy to change ALL of Windows 10’s important privacy settings at one time.

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How to view tons of technical info about your Android device

Posted on December 28, 2020

A while back I told you about a great free program called Speccy that lists pretty much every technical detail there is about your PC.

If you have even a passing interest in what hardware and software is inside your computer’s case, you need to download Speccy today.

If you have that same curiosity about what’s inside your Android phone or tablet, a wonderful free app called CPU-Z will tell you. [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I check my computer’s RAM for problems?

Posted on December 22, 2020

Question from Mac G.: I have a four year old Acer laptop that recently started crashing to blue screens at random times.

A first it would only happen about once or twice a month but now they’re popping up at least once a day.

I thought it might be a software issue so I followed your instructions for resetting Windows 10 but that didn’t help. The blue screens continued popping up even with no programs installed.

My next thought is maybe my computer has a RAM chip that went bad.

First of all, what are your thoughts about the possibility of bad RAM being the problem?

And second, if you do suspect a RAM problem how’s the best way to check the RAM to see if it’s in fact bad?

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How to disable the Control Panel and Settings app in Windows 10 (and why you might want to)

Posted on November 30, 2020

As you probably know, Windows 10 has both a Control Panel and a Settings app that make it easy to alter a plethora of Windows settings and features.

Unfortunately, these powerful tools also make it very easy for inexperienced users to make system changes that end up causing issues with either the Windows installation itself or the programs and apps that run under it.

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