Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Do you have a laptop or desktop PC that’s running Windows 10?
If so, you surely know how frustrating the native Photos app can be.
I happen to like Windows 10 overall, but the Photos app leaves a lot to be desired due to its dearth of features and capabilities.
After my most recent photo editing session I decided that I really needed to find myself a better app.
We Americans love upgrading to a new smart phone at every opportunity, and most of us have several of them stuffed in a drawer somewhere.
If you’re like me, you probably hate having a perfectly good portable computer (that’s really what a smart phone is) doing nothing more than gathering dust.
I’ve written several posts in the past explaining how to give an old smart phone a new life by turning it into something useful (like a wireless security camera), and I have another such tip for you today. [Read more…]
Do you use Facebook on a laptop or desktop computer?
If so, you’re probably familiar with one or more of these common annoyances:
All of these annoyances have irritated me at one time or another, and I’m guessing they’ve irritated you as well.
Luckily, there’s a very easy way to eliminate all of these Facebook annoyances in one fell swoop: [Read more…]
The “Uninstall a program” utility found in the Windows Control Panel is an extremely inefficient and cumbersome tool for removing programs from your PC.
In addition to being slow to display a list of installed applications and remove the ones selected, the removal process sometimes fails and almost always leaves behind traces of uninstalled programs which clutter up the registry and slow your system down.
There is an excellent alternative to the Windows Uninstaller. It’s called GeekUninstaller, and I have found it to be fast, extremely easy to use and incredibly thorough at removing all traces of uninstalled programs. [Read more…]
Question from Gary: I’m getting ready to turn over a bunch of files to another party and I don’t want him to know when these particular files were created.
Don’t worry, there’s nothing untoward going on here, we’re just doing a business deal and I don’t want the files’ creation dates to become an issue.
Is there any way to change a file’s creation date in Windows 7? I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find a way to do it.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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