Many people when purchasing just about anything, including items other than computers or electronics, are so focused on the price, that they don’t truly look at what they are getting for the price. Sometimes I hear “I could get a new computer for that price”. I say “what kind of computer would you get for that …
AVG is pretty awesome, but why force the Zen on every install of AVG free edition? Many people just have a single computer to manage and don’t want Zen getting in the way as an extra program, no only to download and install but the shortcut that gets created on the desktop is Zen, which …
Microsoft Windows 10 looks pretty awesome, but unfortunately they put a security hole in here thinking it’s convenient for us. Unfortunately, people forget that the easier it is for you, the easier it is for hackers. In this case, they don’t need to be much of a hacker if you’re willingly giving them your Wi-Fi …
By now you may have noticed a little white Windows logo down by your time on the task bar. If you haven’t it looks like this image below. It’s not a hoax or virus, you can click on it to read the offer. If you click on it you will see (as per …
Backing up your data is critical and besides doing a manual copy and paste of your data from all the various locations, you can program Cobian Backup on what to backup and how to backup. Once it’s programed the rest is easy. You can have it on a schedule but you need to ensure your …
Are you doing a “True” backup? What’s a “True” backup? Many people don’t backup at all which is mind blowing, because I do a lot of data recoveries and when I have to repair computers I ask when the last backup was done and it’s either a very long time or never. But there are …
If you want to know how to find out what hard drive you have installed in your computer system, we’ll show you how you can find out, assuming your running a Windows operating system. You might assume if you bought a DELL computer it is all DELL parts; same whether it’s HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, …
If you have multiple Inboxes or PST files and/or some combination of OST and PST where you have more than one Inbox in Outlook and you want to change the default folder (Inbox) that opens by default when you open Outlook, I’ll show you here. With Outlook 2013 open, click on “File” Click “Options” in …
It’s a new year filled with new possibilities. Including new viruses, hackers and other risks to your computers and your entire network infrastructure. There are a number of things you can do to protect yourself on a regular basis and many things we take for granted as we setup once and forget it. This is …
Although Java has been considered a security threat for some time now (see my past article on Homeland security suggesting to discontinue Java), Java is still widely used for so many web based apps, that we can’t seem to get away from it. Very popular web based apps still require the use of Java and …
