In the effort of uniting the traditional desktop and Modern UI, Windows 10 build 9926 makes some significant changes to the familiar desktop. The new Settings app is a great example. There is basically no more Control Panel; Micro...
Windows 7 has a good selection of bundled games that you can open from the Games folder on Start Menu. However, it does not include the 3D Pinball and Inkball games that were usually bundled with other Windows platforms. Neverthel...
By now, most of us are well aware of the new malware that’s been found in Lenovo-based computers called Superfish. Superfish is as the name suggests, and works swiftly to create it’s own security loophole after travell...
Unless you have been living under a tech-rock, you have probably heard about the Superfish malware that’s recently come about for Lenovo devices. The first thing to understand is that it doesn’t extend outside of the L...
If you want Adobe Reader to automatically remember that last PDF page that you’ve viewed or read, all you need to do is to update its preferences. It’s a very simple thing to do but also really useful. It will definitely come in h...
Although Cortana has a great potential in Windows 10, some of you may still don’t want to have it enabled. Or maybe you just like to hide its search box to free up some space on the Taskbar. In this short article, I’ll show you ju...
The ZX Spectrum was among the first home computers dedicated to gaming. Now you can revive some ZX Spectrum nostalgia with emulator software for Windows. In addition, there are also websites from which you can run Spectrum games w...
In other articles, I’ve already told you about Data Set and Icon Set conditional formatting options in Excel. In addition to those, you can also select Color Scales conditional formatting. That adds a two or three color sca...
By default, the Windows 7 icons are placed on the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 doesn’t have any options to center those taskbar icons. However, you can center the taskbar icons with TaskDock. You can add TaskDock to Window...
For some of you who keep testing out new builds of Windows 10, it seems that Cortana is the biggest feature added to build 9926. However, the virtual assistant is not available yet for people who live outside the U.S. But don’t wo...
AutoSizer is a freeware package for Windows that automatically resizes windows for you. For example, with the software you can set up a program so that it opens with a restored down window. In addition, you can also enter custom d...
You may already know that Cortana is a great new virtual assistant in Windows 10. In the previous article, I showed you how Cortana stores all of your personal information in a Notebook so you have a complete control of her knowle...
One of those major new features in Windows 10 is Cortana. She, if you will, is your virtual assistant that can help you make reminders, send an email, answer questions, etc. If you’ve used Siri on iOS, you definitely underst...
If Windows is taking a while to shut down, you can give it a boost without any extra software. You can speed up the shut down from the registry in Windows Vista, 7 or 8. Just follow the steps outlined below. First, open the regist...
Excel is one of the best spreadsheet applications that has a multitude of functions to select from. Among those functions is SUMPRODUCT. That’s a function that takes one or more arrays of numbers and adds the sum of their pr...
