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Many of the tips I post on this blog involve making changes to the Windows Registry.
The problem is, Windows’ native Regedit Registry Editor can be a real pain to use.
One of my biggest pet peeves with Regedit has always been the way we have to navigate several layers deep into the registry tree using the mouse.
But thanks to a fantastic free utility called Registry Finder, you no longer have to. [Read more…]
Question from Pete: Every now and then I open the Task Manager on my Windows 11 laptop and quickly scan the running processes just to make sure there’s nothing out of the ordinary running.
I hopped out of bed this morning, turned on my laptop and did one of those checks. I was surprised to see there were numerous lsass.exe processes running when there’s usually only one. [Read more…]
Question from Jackie D.: Rick, I read your post about replacing Windows with Linux and I’d really like to give Linux Mint a try. The thing is I don’t want to get rid of Windows.
I read that you have a choice of either installing Linux Mint to dual-boot with Windows or placing it on a separate hard drive. I’d like to know which way you think I should go. [Read more…]
Although I wasn’t all that impressed with Windows 11 initially, I’ve grown accustomed to it and I now feel a lot better about recommending the update from Windows 10.
But that being said, like Windows 10 before it, Windows 11’s default privacy settings are extremely invasive.
Luckily, you can change a number of privacy settings to make both Windows 11 and Windows 10 just as stingy with your personal info as their predecessors were, but Microsoft has scattered those many settings all around the various nooks and crannies of the Windows user interface.
Question from Elian: Every time I open the Microsoft Store and try to search for an app it freezes up on me.
The only way it will close is if I kill it with the Task Manager.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]