Eventually, everyone needs a new hard drive.
They’re getting much faster, and even with The Almighty Cloud you need storage space!
The solution is to upgrade your hard drive.
For most people, that conjures up visions of voodoo-like technical operations that not only are mysterious, but they can look pretty scary.
Fortunately, with a bit of added knowledge and one simple software tool, it’s easier than you think!
Yet another fun one:
You reboot your Windows PC, and try to log in.
Only trouble is, there isn’t a login screen!
There’s a background wallpaper image, you can see your mouse cursor and move it around, but there’s no account image, username, or password/PIN box to type in.
It appears your PC is hosed, but fear not!
We’ve all heard the bad news: we’re being blasted by blue light from LED bulbs and the screens of our many gizmos!
But really, how bad is it?
After all, the sun is a huge source of blue light…
Surely there must be simple solutions to this problem?
Well, there are! Watch to the end or you’ll miss the best one…
The USA was always the best place to buy tech.
The selection was bigger than most other countries, and the prices were the lowest around.
But that all changed in recent months.
Now – believe it or not – you can often get good tech CHEAPER in Europe! I’m at a complete loss to explain this, but I’m not complaining…
“Windows 11 is okay – except when it comes time to do a big update or install it from scratch. In both cases, MS has decided to force you to log in to Windows using your Microsoft account. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could skip this step?”
Why yes, it would be. And you could do just that before – but Microsoft “fixed the glitch”.
Well, okay then: Let’s work around their “fix”!
There’s a simple fix for the Black Screen of Death when connecting with Remote Desktop – and it may actually improve your gaming!
It’s not often that Microsoft makes things that easy for us…
And as you might suspect, this case is no exception.
But if you understand HOW and WHY, you can have the best of all worlds for your specific PC.
It just takes a few clicks!
Who doesn't love PDFs? Unfortunately, far too often you won't see a thumbnail of a PDF file's first page.
Instead, you'll see a generic PDF icon.
This has been a known issue for YEARS, and it boggles my mind that even Adobe can't manage to fix the problem.
But now, they don't have to; Microsoft has done it for them! (more…)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is super-handy. It lets you run various flavors of linux semi-natively in Windows.
The problem comes when you started with WSL 1, and you do something wild like try to upgrade node/npm to version 24 or newer.
You get weird errors like:
Ah, Windows networking... It sucks.
Chances are, you've got some linuxy gizmos like a NAS or local linux server for media or whatever.
And chances are, it does NOT show up in Network in the file Explorer.
Fortunately, this is the easiest thing in the world to fix - don't faint!
Way back in early 2009, I wrote a post entitled: How to Determine the Master Browser in a Windows Workgroup
Since then, quite a number of people have downloaded and used my little LANscanner program for displaying the IP addies, MAC addies, workgroup, and Master Browser of all the gizmos on their local network.
One problem: With the release of Windows 10 it stopped working. Version 2.0 fixed that, but then came Windows 11... And LANscanner got REALLY SLOW...
Well, I'm happy to announce the release of LANscanner v3.0! (more…)
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