Several weeks ago I commented about wireless mice. Since then I have received a surprising number of emails with regards to mice. The major one seems to be that some people think the blue light laser mice work great on glass and an equal number say they do not. Since I do not have one…
If you read the column regularly you will know that I occasionally give you general warnings about viruses, scams, etc. However, there is one running like crazy right now that I feel I need to talk about. I interrupted the regularly scheduled column this week to let you know about it. A lot of my…
Many of you had questions and suggestions about Windows 7 after last week’s column. Thanks for asking them! And no, that is not all I will be writing about now. Since it is the newest and one of the most popular Windows operating systems I will talk about it from time-to-time. I do realize that…
I have been written to by several of the "Double Click" readers as to why I have not mentioned Microsoft Windows 7 very often. The answer is that there are about 50 bazillion other geeks out there, who have written about it relentlessly since it rolled out to the public in October, 2009. I figured…
My mouse has no tail! No, I do not mean the little rodent variety, but the ones fitting comfortably under your hand that you poke and prod all the time at your computer. One of my readers/listeners, Jenny saw me in a local eatery the other day while I was working on something. I go…
One of the main things that I believe are of some benefit to your computer is to perform regular defrags on them. Some geeks believe that a defrag of your hard drive is never needed. If you are one of the people in my camp I have a couple of suggestions for you. First an…
Over the past nine years I have talked about different items related to backing up your personal files or data files on your computer. At that time I wrote about where to back up your files. Three years ago I talked about what files you should regularly backup. From both of those columns I only…
I got an email from a reader in Mt. Crawford over a month ago asking an excellent question. They wanted to know if there was a way to keep all of their programs up to date, keeping the latest version always on their system. In talking back and forth with them we came to the…
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