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 of [...]
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 and [...]
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 Windows [...]
You can easily send emails to small groups of 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) and choose [...]
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 or two, [...]
Here are a couple of Windows user’s bad habits that are disasters in the making.
People (you?) do these through ignorance. They don’t understand how computers in general and Windows in particular work, so they don’t make the necessary allowances. As an experienced teacher, I want to give you the background info so you can understand [...]
Ever had to restart Windows because you couldn’t launch some program?
Microsoft Outlook sometimes does the following: One component of the program is left running in your computer’s memory, but invisibly. Next time you try to start Outlook, nothing happens. After a few attempts, you may do the obvious “universal fix” – that is restart Windows.
Instead, [...]
What should you do, for instance, if a web page refuses to close, or starts spewing copies all over your display screen?
What you SHOULDN’T do is to turn off your computer to stop it! Most of us know better, but I still hear of people doing this – and begging for damage to Windows or [...]
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