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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.
Question from Marsha: I have a question about Windows licenses and I know you’ll probably be able to answer it.
I received an email from a man who said he has collected over 1,000 Windows 7 license codes from junked PCs over the course of several years.
He’s offering to sell all of those licenses to me for only $5 each. He said I can sell them online for at least $20 each.
What I’d like to know is does this deal sound legit to you? [Read more…]
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System Restore is a powerful tool for reversing detrimental changes to your PC’s Windows installation.
In a nutshell, System Restore allows you to “roll back” the Windows installation to the state it was in at a time before the detrimental changes were made.
For example, lets say that somehow a critical Windows setting gets changed and your system starts doing strange and unexpected things.
You can usually fix this type of issue by simply using System Restore to roll Windows back to a Restore Point that was created a few days earlier.
System Restore is typically launched from within Windows, but what if the issue at hand is so severe that your PC won’t boot up into Windows at all? [Read more…]
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Question from Betty: I have an Acer laptop that came with Windows 8 but was later updated to Windows 10.
It works great except for one problem.
This computer always booted to the Desktop after I installed Windows 10 but this morning it booted to what looks very similar to the old Windows 8 “Start Screen”.
My friend came over and used my computer last night and he must have done something to make it start doing this.
I really, really, REALLY want to use my computer with the Desktop instead of a stupid Start Screen. How can I fix it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Today’s wide-screen monitors are great because they allow us to view more info on the screen with less scrolling.
However, that advantage is primarily horizontal, not vertical.
One simple change will allow you to take full advantage of your wide-screen monitor…