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Question from Glenda: My son accepted a job in Brisbane, Australia and he now lives there.
My problem is I seem to wake him up every time I call him. I guess I’m horrible with time zones.
Is there an easy way to quickly see what time it is over there so I can avoid disturbing him when he’s sleeping? Maybe an app I an install on my computer? [Read more…]
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Most every computer user is familiar with the “Undo” and “Redo” options on program menus.
If you’re unfamiliar with them, clicking “Undo” will reverse the last change you made to a text file, a Word document, a photo or most anything else that you can edit.
Clicking “Redo” will reverse the “Undo” and make the change you “undid” active once again.
As you can imagine, these are two of the most useful options you have at your disposal while you’re doing something with your computer.
But there’s a problem…
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Most computer users have no idea what type of CPU is inside their machine, and that’s fine.
As long as your computer works properly and gets the job done, its CPU type is rarely a concern.
That being said, there might well come a time when you’ll need to know what kind of CPU is inside your PC.
Here are three ways to discover the CPU type in a Windows PC without having to open the case: [Read more…]
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Unfortunately, in the Internet age, viruses and other forms of malware tend to spread like wildfires, and it’s getting harder by the day to keep your devices from getting infected by them.
That’s why it’s important to install a high quality antivirus program on your Windows computer, keep it updated at all times and perform a couple of on-demand malware scans on a regular basis.
Macs aren’t as likely to get infected with malware as Windows machines, but it’s happening more all the time. And when it does the results can be catastrophic, which is why I recommend that Mac users install Malwarebytes on their machines.
With all of the above being said, a little due diligence can go a long way towards keeping your machines safe as well. [Read more…]
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Question from Ethan: I was reading an article last night that discussed using part of a computer’s unused RAM as a RAM Disk, and it got me to thinking.
I have a 6 year old desktop computer that’s running Windows 10. It has 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.
This machine runs really slow, coming almost to a crawl at times. After doing some research I’ve determined that it’s likely sluggish because it’s doing a ton of swapping back and forth with the page file.
Do you think moving the Windows Page File to a RAM Disk would help speed it up? [Read more…]