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 five years ago I wrote to you about an application that you could use to keep track of your books and DVDs. I had many of you write back to me and tell me how much you liked it. Over the past year or so I have had several of you write back saying…
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…
A quick definition is needed here for what portable applications are and how are…
I wanted to talk about a very interesting free application that I stumbled upon this week and the website where I found it. Everything USB is an interesting site that has…well OK, you guessed it, lots of information about USB devices. USB stands for “universal serial bus” and is the interface (plug) between your computer, most thumb drives/memory sticks and an…
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