Outlook blocked attachment

Allowing Blocked Outlook Attachments

You may have noticed or been aggravated by the fact that Outlook won’t allow you to open or save certain types of file attachments from your email. You may see a message… Read More
Burn a Music CD with Windows Media Player

Burn a Music CD with Windows Media Player

Most computer users and music lovers like to burn their own custom music CDs from their MP3 collection stored on their computer. Many people buy third party software to do this but… Read More
Add a watermark to a Microsoft Word document

Add a Background Watermark to Your Word Document

Microsoft Word allows you to add watermarks to your documents. Watermarks are light images or text that behind regular text in your document. I’m sure you have seen one of those documents… Read More
Microsoft Outlook distribution groups

Creating an Outlook Distribution List Group

I’m sure at one point or another when sending out emails that you have sent a group email to multiple recipients. But what if you want to save that group of addresses… Read More
Nslookup Command for network connectivity

Using the Nslookup Command

There are many command line networking tools that you can use to do various things from checking the connectivity of hosts on a network to finding out IP information about your computer.… Read More
Straight vs. crossover network cabling

The Difference Between Straight and Crossover Ethernet Cables

Ethernet cables, or as many people call them networks cables are used for data transmission between devices on a network. They consist of a cable with 4 pairs of wires connected by… Read More
Show Folders in the Left Pane of File Explorer in Windows

Show Folders in the Left Pane of File Explorer in Windows

Many of us spent years on older versions of Windows such as Windows XP and 2000 and when Windows 10 and 11 came out Microsoft changed the way File Explorer looked and… Read More
Steps to prevent spyware infections on your computer

Removing and Preventing Spyware Infections

Spyware, often called Malware or Adware is becoming an ever increasingly difficult nuisance to deal with when you are trying to maintain a smooth running computer. Spyware is software that obtains your… Read More
Using IP Config to renew and release IP addresses

How to Release and Renew your IP Address

IP addresses are used on networks and on the Internet to allow computers to communicate with each other. If you don’t have an IP address on a TCP/IP based network then you… Read More
Using Windows Task Manager

Using Windows Task Manager

Computers are made to run tasks for you in order to let you get your work done more quickly and efficiently. But there may be times when you need to manage these… Read More
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