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This column was brought about by a group of us geeks discussing the current Windows operating systems. Of course, this included the Windows Registry and the way applications are now installed on a Windows based computer. Basically there was a consensus that we would like to do away with the registry and the way applications…
The 10 Best Apps for a New Computer, Part 4
Over the past weeks, I have given you the top 10 applications that I feel should be installed on a new PC. For a quick review they are: 1. Ninite, 2. Google Chrome Browser, 3. BitWarden or LastPass, 4. Malwarebytes, 5. Microsoft365.com, Google.com, or LibreOffice, 6. Thunderbird, 7. VLC, 8. Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams.com,…
Updating Your Apps
I know you are all running Windows Update on your PCs. Well, let me back off a bit on that. If you have Windows 7 or before you should be running it manually or setting it to run automatically. Windows 8 on comes with the default for Windows Update to automatically run so you do…
Voice Assistants
Some of the big technology devices to hit in recent years are Voice Assistants. The idea first came about on TV with Star Trek in the ‘60s. This was when you could communicate by voice instructions with the computers. In the real world, “Siri” started on the iPhone 4S at its release in October 2011….
Web Page Saver and More
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Office 2013–Word, Part 2
Thanks for the emails showing your interest in the new Microsoft Office. We will look into it some more today. Last week we looked at the “Read Mode” and PDF conversion as well as editing options in Word 2013. Today we will look at some other features which are new to Word. Another new feature…

