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How to undo an ‘Undo’ when there’s no ‘Redo’ option available

Posted on July 23, 2024

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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How to instantly expand all processes in the Windows’ Task Manager

Posted on July 12, 2024

The Task Manager utility is a very handy tool for examining and managing all the apps and processes that are currently running on your Windows machine.

But if you’re searching for a specific task it can get a little tedious having to click the arrows one at time to expand each “branch” of the “tree” until you find the task you’re searching for.

Luckily, you don’t have to.  [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I make Windows 11 open things with one click?

Posted on June 26, 2024

Question from Frank:  Rick, I have a computer running Windows 11 and I have a question about it.

I’m 73 years old and have terribly arthritic fingers which makes it extremely difficult for me to “double-click” on things to open them.

I read somewhere that you can change a setting that’ll make Windows open things with a single click, but I can’t find it.

I’ll be much in your debt if you’d be so kind as to tell me how to set it up. Can you tell me how?  [Read more…]

How (and why) to run Windows’ Disk Cleanup tool

Posted on June 23, 2024

Over time Windows PCs can gather a lot of clutter, and all that junk takes up valuable disk space.

And on rare occasions it can cause the Windows installation itself to slow down and become unstable.

As you can see, it’s very important to keep your machine as free of clutter as possible.

Luckily, all recent versions of Windows come with a handy tool called Disk Cleanup that will quickly and easily remove most of the accumulated digital clutter for you. All you have to do is run it. Here’s how:  [Read more…]

Q&A: When you delete a file, where does it go?

Posted on May 23, 2024

Question from Judy:  I have a question that’s probably going to sound dumb, but I’m curious.

I’ve been using computers for a long time and I’ve deleted a lot of files. Where do they go after Windows deletes them?  [Read more…]

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