Force the Numbers Lock on When Starting Windows

Force the Numbers Lock on When Starting Windows

The number keypad is the set of numbered keys one the right side of the keyboard. Most laptops won’t have these keys unless it’s a larger format laptop with room for them.… 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 Excel 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

Access Your Smartphone From Your Windows 10 Computer With “Your Phone”

Use your computer as your phone!   When Windows 10 was released, Microsoft was set on making it their best operating system ever by packing in so many features that the average… Read More

Configuring Automatic Updates in Windows

Starting with Windows 98 Critical Updates, Microsoft has been making it easier to keep your computer up to date. In the older days, you would have to go out to the Microsoft… Read More
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