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Question from Reba: Hi, Rick. I’ve been reading your daily tips for years and I hope you can help me fix a problem I caused for myself.
I was typing last night and apparently hit some strange keystrokes. The text size in my Chrome window changed. How can I get it back to normal? [Read more…]
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Question from Andreas: Hello, Rick. I hope you can help me.
I recently replaced my ancient Windows 10 computer with a new Dell with Windows 11 on it. It came with a 24 inch flat panel monitor and I love the enhanced sharpness and clarity.
The problem is I’m used to using an older monitor that had large icons (I know, I’m WAY behind the times) and at 72 years of age my eyes aren’t what they once were.
Thanks to one of your tips I found out how to increase the font size in Google Chrome which was a tremendous help, but I really need to know how to make the Desktop icons bigger. Windows 11 is an enigma.
Can you help me with this? [Read more…]
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One of the most irritating things about using a Windows PC is having to wait for it to boot up into a usable state after we turn it on.
To their credit, Microsoft has tweaked newer versions of Windows to reduce average boot times, but in my opinion it still takes longer for them to start up than it should.
Luckily, there are several things you can do to make your own PC boot up a lot faster than it does right now, even if your computer is brand new. Do as many or as few of them as you wish, then enjoy the fruits of your labor. [Read more…]
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Countless articles have been written over the years on the topic of optimizing PCs that run Microsoft Windows in order to make them run faster.
Many of those articles offer a number of good tips, but they almost always include one that I don’t recommend: Optimizing the Windows Registry.
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A while back I wrote a post explaining how to give an old PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux as a means of extending the useful life of older PCs.
After that post was published I received a number of emails asking for a list of Linux programs that can replace the Windows programs they’d leaving behind if they made the switch.
I decided that it might be a good idea to publish that list in its own blog post, and here it is: [Read more…]