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th 14 Sep 2017	When upgrading a hard or solid state disc Acronis is really useful for cloning the old disc to new and these days the software doesn't have to ... more here
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th 24 Aug 2017	It worried us for quite a while that the Windows 10 accent system colour kept changing all by itself on a desktop. It was happening because we'd set the background to slide show and when the graphic ... more here
th 27 Jul 2017	Although there's no mention of it on their website Freeviews's channel on Freeview (100) says Wednesday the children's, news, text and streamed channels are moving. If like us you ... more here
we 19 Jul 2017	Embarrassing how long it took us to work this one out <blush>. SPAMFighter's Block/Unblock/Empty Spam Folder buttons suddenly greyed out so they couldn't be used. Uninstalled- ... more here
tu 27 Jun 2017	We have a couple of laptops here still running Windows XP. We've given up trying to persuade no longer updated browsers Explore and Chrome and email client Outlook Express to run and replaced them with the still maintained and free Firefox and Thunderbird respectively.
su 4 Jun 2017	Here's a bit of good clean fun. Whilst holding down the Windows key press and release R. This will pop up the Run window. (The Windows key is usually second left ... more here
th 11 May 2017	Should have ignored our own advice, connected two different (admittedly by the standards of flat screen elderly) tvs as a second monitor on a desktop, some the of the screen lost at top and bottom and an image sufficiently soft that though it didn't matter much with graphic it made reading text very hard going.
mo 24 Apr 2017	In the last 18 months we've had three monitors and two tvs fail. When the third monitor failed it occurred to us that one of the failed tvs had an hdmi input and still gave a picture with the internal dvd player if not Freeview... just saying.
su 2 Apr 2017	If like us you've got a euro sign on the $4 key but don't know how to get at it the trick is the angry dog key (Alt Grrrr) immediately to the right of the spacebar; whilst holding down Alt Gr press and release 4 ... € see, it works!
th 9 Mar 2017	Google pops up what you're looking for, you click the hyperlink and a vast sprawling page of text appears, rather than endless scrolling to find what brought you there go Ctrl + F (F for Find) and your browser will open up something like Google Chrome's find box on the right or Internet Explorer's box. Your entered text will be highlighted and you can click through the occurrences on the page. Ctrl + F works with Word, Excel and loads of other apps too.
tu 14 Feb 2017	Yesterday we did a clean install of XP Pro plus Service Pack 3 on a desktop. Went well except it didn't want to talk to Windows Update. As we have a netbook here happily running XP with Internet Explorer 8 we judged the problem to be the new install was running Internet Explorer 6 but all download attempts from the Microsoft site got won't run on your system messages. Left the machine turned on and auto updates sorted it out ...
fr 3 Feb 2017	Dipping a toe in the world of Apple we bought a second hand iPhone 5S ... knew that battery life is an issue but didn't know it's that much of an issue. Deciding if we're brave enough to change the battery ourselves.
sa 21 Jan 2017	Here's one from 2011; when defining a group click on a file, then click on another whilst holding down the Shift key and all the files in between will be added to the group.
th 5 Jan 2017	At ntc the main desktop pc has two monitors so we've haven't felt the need for virtual desktops, indeed they just confuse us ... but we are easily confused. Before meddling with virtual desktops ensure the task view button is visible and note that Windows key + Ctrl + f4 closes the current desktop.
fr 16 Dec 2016	If you're Chrome browser has been playing up so has ours, it appears to be Google not getting on with Microsoft ... though at the moment they seem to be playing nicely.
mo 21 Nov 2016	Digital camera RAW files are powerful, but they are specific to each camera model and Photoshop and other software has to know about the individual. If like us your begrudge paying monthly to ... more here

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