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Bing to start giving “Mobile Friendly” sites higher priority in their search results

Posted on May 18, 2015

Back in February Google announced plans to start giving “mobile friendly” web pages higher prirority in their mobile search results.

That makes plenty of sense to me. After all, if I’m searching for info while using my smart phone, I would prefer that Google recommend pages that are optimized for my phone’s small screen.

Well, now Bing is getting ready to jump onto the “mobile friendly” bandwagon. Microsoft has just announced that they will be rolling out changes similar to those made by Google within the next few months. [Read more…]

Why Windows 10 just might be the last new version of Windows we will ever install

Posted on May 4, 2015

windows-10 Could Windows 10 be the last new version of Windows we will ever install on our PCs and mobile devices?

If some of things being said and hinted at by Microsoft are any indication, the answer could very well be yes.

It’s no secret that Windows 10 will likely be sold on a subscription model, which means that as long as we keep making periodic payments to Microsoft our Windows installations will keep on running on our devices without interruption. [Read more…]

Lenovo has just recalled 166,500 laptop batteries due to fire hazard. Is yours one of them?

Posted on April 24, 2015

Lenovo has just announced the recall of 166,500 laptop batteries in the United States and Canada due to a potential fire hazard.

If your laptop has one of the affected batteries, you should remove it from the laptop immediately and contact Lenovo Support to request a free replacement battery. To find out if the battery in your laptop is affected by this recall, simply visit this page and check to see if its part number is on the list.

While you’re waiting for your replacement battery to arrive, you can use your laptop while running on power supplied by the AC adapter (without a battery installed).

Great deal: Get the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium at a great price!

Posted on April 14, 2015

windows-7 Would you like to upgrade a PC running Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7, but can’t find a Windows 7 upgrade package in the stores?

Or do you have a new computer that came with Windows 8 pre-installed, and you absolutely hate Windows 8 and would like to replace it with a legal copy of Windows 7?

Microsoft has officially moved on to Windows 8 (actually, 8.1 now), but you can still buy legal copies of Windows 7 if you know where to look. [Read more…]

How to use System Restore to remove a bad Windows Update when your PC won’t boot up

Posted on March 19, 2015

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…]