pc tips

th 23 Sep 2021 Windows 11	The free Windows 11 upgrade is due 5 October. To check compatibility on a maybe five year old HP workstation we downloaded and installed Microsoft's PC Health Check. To download Health Check scroll to the bottom of the bloated Windows 11 page. Our workstation failed on incompatible cpu and even after a BIOS upgrade Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. Isn't necessarily game over though ... we'll wait and see.
we 1 Sep 2021	After a Windows update a while back a new icon appeared on the task bar to the left of the system tray. We found it popped up an annoyingly large window whenever the mouse pointer strayed near the icon. It was surprisingly easy to get rid of, right click on the task bar then News and interests and then Turn off, that'll do it.
fr 9 Jul 2021	We find this keyboard shortcut useful to reduce distraction when doing something non-digital at a pc especially as our ... more here
mo 17 May 2021	Spamfighter has stopped working unless we buy. We were happy to pay but not a yearly subscription so uninstalled it. After a bit we realised we now had to restart our email client's spam filter, in our version of Outlook go Actions/Junk E-mail Options...
we 21 Apr 2021	This hadn't occurred to us, use capitals in your hashtags #LikeThis so screen readers can pronounce the words, thanks Robin Paley York.
fr 26 Mar 2021	Today we got both a scam text and a scam email pretending to be Royal Mail about the same fictional delivery. DON'T click on the links but if you hover your mouse over the links in the email you'll see the web addresses are nothing to do with Royal Mail.
tu 23 Mar 2021	Life Skills 38 : The first law of electronics is It's always the lead; the second law is the same as the first. The cable bending where ... more here
mo 15 Feb 2021	Don't know why it's taken us years to trip over this. In Windows 10 photo viewer double click on an image and it zooms up, hold and drag to move the image about, and double click again to zoom back ... l♥ve it.
su 24 Jan 2021	Most writers find it difficult to edit themselves so here are some useful tips from Gemma Arrowsmith on how to get the page count down.
th 10 Dec 2020	Windows 10 feature update 20H2 this morning had two cracks at installing and prompted a .NET update. Unsurprisingly the feature update suggests using Microsoft's browser, search engine and a free try of 365 so you can pay for it later.
su 6 Dec 2020	Inevitably we don't like Facebook 's new makeover. Particularly frustrating is the option to change the order of an album's photos seems to have gone.
th 22 Oct 2020	We're back on Twitter and it only took four days ... it's taken us months to get a dental appointment.
tu 20 Oct 2020	If you inadvertently put the camera on the iPhone in your pocket into panorama mode it soon becomes a very acceptable hand warmer.
sa 26 Sep 2020	With our Apple devices we often remove the sense when typing by not noticing autosuggest has changed something. Despite this we've turned autosuggest+ on for Windows 10 ... we'll let you know how it goes ...
mo 19 Oct 2020	Embarrassingly our Twitter account has been locked. When we opened the account we were still at junior school and the software ... more here
fr 18 Sep 2020	New to Freeview Sky Arts is on channel 11 which was Pick. Pick is now on channel 34 and no, we don't know what was on channel 34 before.
tu 8Sep 2020	If you receive an unexpected and perhaps unexplained parcel (it happens a lot at this end of Stately Terrace) it may be a brushing scam but it doesn't mean you've been hacked.
we 24 Jun 2020	If you go through the online process to return an eBay item, get to the end and then want to go back to the beginning to change the reason for return DON'T click Cancel. If you cancel a return you can't start another one for the same item.
tu 9 Jun 2020	We've always found it irritating that when you delete (or move) a link in the Chrome browser bookmarks pulldown it closes the pullldown. To do more than one change open the Bookmark manager with Ctrl + Shift + O (that's Oh not zero). In what seems like some slightly mad recursion you can save the Bookmark manager as a bookmark ...
mo 6 Apr 2020	When Windows 10 fired up this morning it offered to make our life better by selling us Office 365 for eighty quid a year and linking our mobile to the pc. We thought it could make our life better by leaving us alone but despite this perhaps foolishly gave it our mobile number for linking. After texts/passwords/verifications we now have Microsoft's Edge browser on our iPhone ... we'll let you know if our life gets any better.
tu 24 Mar 2020	Sunday we had our first virtual dinner London-Dorset-Framlingham-Zurich via application Zoom and an iPad. Quite touching to see and hear Lady KRJ's two little boys chattering and eating spaghetti. Helps if you can get your device a little away, it puts you in context:)
th 30 Jan 2020	The BBC red button text service didn't switch off today. After a petition from the National Federation of the Blind the decision will be reviewed in the spring ... though the red button itself doesn't seem to know this yet.
su 19 Jan 2020	Useful keyboard shortcut is Windows + E which pops up file explorer with Frequent folders and Recent files ... go on, try it.
mo 30 Dec 2019	We find in the morning the BBC red button text service a succinct way of checking that the world is still going to hell in a handcart. Regrettably the text service is closing 30 January. We've tried the Beeb's news app but it's a bit tabloid for our taste ... Nine things you didn't know about that there Ed Sheraton. ♫

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