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Recommended: Uni USB-C Hub

If you have purchased a laptop recently, you realize that most only come with 1, maybe 2 (if lucky) USB-C ports. If you require additional ports (like USB, HDMI, etc), you need to purchase adapters.  Today’s post will review the Uni USB-C 8 in 1

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How To: Find The PC Serial Number – Windows

Most Windows machines have a sticker at the bottom of the machine that shows the manufacturing date and serial number. However, those stickers tend to fade or fall off the machine. Today’s post will review an option for getting your serial number when the sticker

How To Lock Windows PC Via Desktop File

Whenever I step away from my windows pc, I like to lock the screen. This way anyone who walked up to my pc, only gets to see the welcome screen. The easiest way I find to lock my pc is simply to have an icon

Microsoft PDF in Windows 10

PDF is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, so that the document looks the same no matter what application software, hardware, and operating system you use.  Today’s post will go over how to install or reinstall

How To: Extend Device Battery Life

Especially in these times, with all the emergencies and natural disasters that are currently happening, there may be a time when you just need to keep your device running “just a little longer”. How do you keep your device running, be it a cell phone,

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Recommended Windows 10 Tweaks

For those of you who got your new Windows 10 toy (aka a PC, Laptop, or Tablet), and are coming from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 environment, here are a couple of Windows 10 Tweaks to give you all the power of Windows 10

How to recover your software product key (serial number)

One of the issues that I’ve come across regularly, while trying to provide support,  involves having to reinstall either the Windows operating system and/or the Microsoft Office software on a pc without having the product key (serial number).  How do you recover the software product

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Tip: Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

You are showing your age, if you remember what keyboard commands like (holding down) Ctrl – C, Ctrl – V, Ctrl – X do. For those of you who are not familiar with keyboard short cuts, on a computer, a keyboard shortcut is a sequence

How To Use The Function Keys (Windows)

  One of the functions of a computer is to help us work more productively, so we can get work finished more quickly and get on to other things. Using keystroke shortcuts can save us time rather than clicking around menus with our mouse. If

How To: Use KeePass Password Manager

There have been a number of newsworthy hackings over the past few months (Yahoo being the latest BIG one), and the one thing you hear everyone say after each site gets hacked is “You shouldn’t use the same password on multiple sites”. That however is

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Bring Back IE / Change Default Browser In Windows 10

Since the release of Windows 10, most of the comments I’ve  heard are positive.  Everyone seems to like Windows 10, or at least like it more than Windows 8, however the BIG complaint that I keep getting over and over involves Internet Explorer being removed,

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Get Classic Start Menu On Windows 10

For those that do NOT like the look of the Windows 10 Start Menu. Here is what you need to do to get the classic start menu on your Windows 10 machine. I’ve installed Windows 10 on all my machines at home.  I don’t have any

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Simple Way To Add The Start Menu To Windows 8

Windows 8 has now been available for a couple of weeks, and the BIGGEST complaint I get from clients is the missing start menu. It just seems that some things are just not that easy to do without. Since August 24, 1995, when Windows 95