How to Change your Home, Startup and New Tab Pages in Microsoft Edge

You may or may not know that the Microsoft Edge web browser comes installed with Windows and is set to be the default browser automatically which makes sense since it’s the only… Read More

How to Enable Ransomware Protection in Windows

Don’t let your files be held for ransom! With the internet expanding at a rapid rate, comes the fact that that the number of online threats is expanding as well. Its hard… Read More

Create a Transparent Background for an Image Using Microsoft Paint 3D

Get rid of those pesky backgrounds in your images   Photo editing is a very common thing that people like to do using their computers and if you are into graphic design… Read More

Find How Long Your Computer Has Been Running (Uptime)

How long has your computer been running?   Most of us leave our computers running 24 hours a day and when we do that, things start to slow down thanks to memory… Read More

Using the Microsoft Spreadsheet Compare Tool to Find Differences in Spreadsheets

Easily compare the differences between 2 spreadsheets If you work with a lot of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, you might run into a situation where you have two versions of the same file.… Read More
Recuva File Recovery Utility

Recuva File Recovery Utility

Everyone at some point or another has deleted a file or files that they didn’t mean to delete. Most of the time you can just go to the Recycle Bin and restore… Read More

How to Create a RAID1 Mirrored Volume in Windows and Restore it When You Have a Disk Failure

Data redundancy the cheap and easy way!   RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) has been around for many years and offers a way for us to have data redundancy by using… Read More

Crop a Picture to a Shape in Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements is the “easier to use” version of Adobe Photoshop Professional or Creative Cloud (CC) as its known. Photoshop Elements doesn’t have all the power features as the professional version does… Read More

How to Fix Your Windows Computer Name When it Shows the Old Hostname

Make your computer’s name display correctly everywhere! Most Windows power users know how to change the name of their computer from the default name that Windows gives it during the installation. Normally… Read More

Boot a VirtualBox VM From a Flash Drive

Don’t limit yourself to booting from ISO files!   Virtualization software such as VMware, Hyper-V and VirtualBox allow us to create multiple virtual machines (computers) that run on one physical computer so… Read More
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