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 [...]
Are you the owner of a web site or blog?
If so, you probably work hard to keep its quality up and get it noticed amid the Trillions of available web pages. That’s right - on 7/25/2008 Google announced that they were indexing over 1 Trillion web domains (URLs). And most URLs lead to many web pages.
My [...]
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…
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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 [...]
I’ve added a page, simply called “Free Products”.
Check it out from time to time, as it’s not part of my automatic blog feed you may have subscribed to – if you didn’t, why not subscribe right now, using that big orange RSS feed button up top, or the email subscription form to the right?
Quite the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Many Windows users don’t realize that Windows keeps logs of almost everything it does. And these logs are easy to review for any recorded problems. Windows may be trying to tell you something – you’d best listen. Don’t wait for trouble when you can easily head it off.
I recommend that you inspect your ‘Windows Event [...]
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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