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Question from Gio K.: Hi Rick. I use a lot of your tips, but my friend got a new windows 8 computer and he is wondering how he can disable the Control Panel. If you know any way to do that, please reply. Thank you.
Rick’s answer: Hello Gio. It’s actually quite easy to disable access to the Control Panel in Windows 8, and there are plenty of circumstances under which it might be desirable to do so.
Follow these steps to disable the Control Panel in Windows 8: [Read more…]
Could Microsoft be working on plans to give away their cash-cow Windows operating system for free? According to several reliable sources, the answer could be yes.
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s share of the operating system market is dwindling by the day, and it all started way back with the release of Apple’s first iPad. The guys and gals in Redmond apparently thought users would consider tablet PCs to be toys, not suitable replacements for desktop and laptop computers.
Well, they were wrong, and by the time they realized it the genie was already out of the bottle. [Read more…]
iOS 7 is a great operating system for your Apple device because it has simplified many common tasks and added several very useful new features.
But one task in iOS 7 isn’t simpler at all. If you happen to have several tabs open in Safari at once, it can be a real pain closing all of them one at a time. As you probably know, it requires a LOT of swiping!
But luckily there is a way to easily and quickly close ALL open tabs at the same time. Just use the simple procedure explained below: [Read more…]
Last Sunday I told you that Apple had just announced a major security flaw in both their iOS and OS X operating systems.
They almost immediately released a patch to fix the flaw in iOS, but they said it would take a little longer for them to make a patch available for OS X.
Well, all of you Mac laptop and desktop users will be glad to know that Apple has finally gotten around to releasing a security patch for OS X as well. [Read more…]
Question from Cynthia T.: Hi Rick. I have something going on with my computer that’s driving me up the wall.
Starting 3 days ago there’s a Floppy Disk A: drive showing up in Windows Explorer. I haven’t owned a computer with a floppy drive in it in years!
Why is a phantom floppy drive showing up in my drive list? And more importantly, how can I get rid of it? My computer is a Gateway desktop running Windows 7 Pro.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]