I find that many of my Windows computer clients don’t benefit from the many things which that right mouse button can be made to do. Right-Clicking for Windows 7 You can right-click on any file to get a handy pop-up context menu – including the ability to invoke many programs you may have which are [...]
Experts take this so much for granted that they forget to warn others. (* See below for an exception) It works like this: Basically, only one software application can use (open) any single software file at any one time – into your computers volatile electronic memory, where your file is located during the time you’re working on [...]
Carry your whole computer in your pocket? Yes! (well everything you really need) It’s now possible to put almost everything you use every day, including your Microsoft Office and other programs, onto a USB flash drive you can carry in your pocket! How do they do that? The secret is an inexpensive flash drive operating system. [...]
Is your slow Internet connection because of your own software, or Windows, or your Internet connection hardware, or your ISP (Internet Service Provider), or some of each, or what? To know for sure, you’d have to check each of the above possibilities. Checking how your ISP is doing on the Internet is easy. Just visit One [...]
I’m probably the last expert on the planet to comment on Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7. But I doubt if anyone is more of a fan. After installing, configuring and testing software on 4 new computers, which I designed for one of my clients, and after installing these PCs at their site, networking them [...]
Here is the final video in this 2 part video tutorial on the Windows Explorer file manager. Enjoy… Please note the control on the video player which opens the player to full screen size. Until Next time – Wake up! My long video is over… Have questions? Want to comment? See below… _jim coe [...]
My Part 1 video describes the Windows file system and file manager, how they work and how best to use them. Before viewing, please study the excellent short tutorial at the “How Things Work” web site, on computer bits and bytes, if you want a complete understanding of the Windows file system. Files are everything in [...]
You can easily send emails to small groups of people, using Microsoft Outlook’s ‘Contacts’ list. If you need to manage email lists larger than a couple of hundred names, you’d best use a specialized email broadcasting and mail list management service, like the very popular AWeber.com service – which I use and recommend. Another option [...]
Have you discovered these time-saving tricks with Microsoft Notepad? Quick notes to yourself I have a notes folder, oddly enough called “Notes”. It has hundreds of useful quick Notepad notes to myself. If I need to refer to one of them often, I right-drag it onto my Windows Desktop (using Windows Explorer, the file manager) [...]
Microsoft puts us between a rock and a hard place with “Automatic Updates” The Dilemma If you use the default Windows auto update settings, Microsoft automatically updates Windows components which you may not want yet – like the latest Internet Explorer browser version. Wise users hold off on such new software versions for a month [...]
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