Tech Talk #21 – Mar 19, 2016 For Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials was all you needed to protect yourself from that old-fashioned threat, viruses. For Windows 8 and 8.1, I started recommending the free versions of AVG or Avast as they were doing a better job of protection from viruses than Security Essentials because Microsoft seemed to be concentrating more on its corporate anti-virus efforts. But these days
Tech Talk #20 – Mar 5, 2016 Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer (IE) prior to IE 11. There will be no security or program updates or features added to IE 8, IE9, or IE10. What does this mean to you? Well, Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 users should be running Internet Explorer 11 by now. Windows Vista users are stuck with version 9, but Microsoft will support that with security updates
Tech Talk #19 – Feb 20, 2016 Hey Windows users, did you make the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10 only to find there isn’t a Games section on your computer anymore? Did you eventually find the new Solitaire, Mahjong and other games in the Windows Store but wish, want, and need the old versions back? No worries! Head over to http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/. Download the file (it’s a big one…) to your Downloads folder.
Tech Talk #18 – Feb 6, 2016 We know that we need to protect our computers from the “bad guys”, but who are they and what do they do? Malware is short for malicious software. Malware refers to any computer program that is designed to do things that are harmful to or unwanted by the computer’s user. Computer viruses, worms, and spyware are examples of malware. Viruses are computer code that is capable of copying
Tech Talk #17 – Jan 23, 2016 White out If you really drill down into the Personalization settings in Windows, you can really change the way Windows looks - wallpapers, themes, screen savers, and color schemes. You can change the color of the text on your screen, the color of your background, the color of the windows title bars, and lots more. If you play around with the settings for long enough, you can get
Tech Talk #16 – Jan 9, 2016 Shortcuts for Windows, Google, and phones Here are some Windows shortcuts you may not know about: Press Shift and Delete to delete something without sending it to the Recycle Bin first. If (or when, in my case) you have a gajillion windows open and need to see something on your desktop, pressing the Windows key plus M will minimize all gajillion of your open windows and let you