pc tips

If annoyed by the distraction of the film strip at start up mostly of interest to Americans only you can get rid of it.  Go Settings/Personalisation/Lock screen.  Scroll down to Choose one app to etc click on the icon with a cloud and then click on None ... that could be a bit simpler eh?

Life Skills No. 65: It often surprises people that hot dry weather is the poorest for tv and radio reception.  If your DAB portable is blipping and burping try ... more here

In Microsoft's photo viewer the slideshow option may appear to have gone away but user key f5 will still fire it up.

Michelle Kaye's helpful review of Microsoft ending Windows 10 support this autumn though being Trump's America they will sell you an extension.

WARNING  Trump isn't the only knob in the USA.  Microsoft are ending support for Windows 10 on Tuesday 14 October including security fixes.  To see if your box will run Windows 11 download and install PC Health Check but if your box is more than five years old probably not.  Maybe Trump will make the Windows 12 upgrade easier for us by only allowing Americans to have it ...

Last century it was maybe a year before we realised our first mobile could text.  Similarly we vaguely knew autofocus could be fine tuned but we didn't know two of our camera bodies had these presets.  Tempted to dismiss as useful if all you snap is tennis but maybe we're just fearful of the new ...

Our windmill correspondent Andy Fordyce has pointed out that Apple Maps also functions as a sat nav ... a helpful comparison.

In Stamford and needing to drive to Norwich the sat nav refused to fire up, panic but in the event it's just follow the A47 and well sign posted but it helps to know the towns on the way.  In Darren Smith's volunteer role as retail/tech consultant he pointed out Google maps on a mobile will function as a free sat nav.  We half suspected as much and on an iPhone found it fully functioning though it took a little learning and used locally you can hear the voice ... we'll find out when we leave Suffolk what happens at speed:)

In a lifetime of laughter and tears we've encountered picture editing being done in Excel and web design in PowerPoint.  Google research may show a prog more suitable for your project, not Microscoft and maybe even free.

Often a software's new feature/improvement is a solution looking for a problem.  Cruising The Cut talks about YouTube's Stable volume.