Windows 7 Tips, Part 2

Last week we took a look at using the control key plus the arrow keys to move your Windows around the screen.  Today we check out a few more Windows 7 tricks.  Remember as you read that ‘W +’ means to hold down the Windows key (the one with the logo to the left of…

Windows Tips & Tricks

W3Schools.com, a great site for coding and statistical information, does a monthly poll on the main operating systems used today and the percentages of users taking advantage of each system.  For July, 2012 it rolls out like this:  Windows 7-53.8%, Vista-3.4%, Microsoft NT-1.2%, Windows XP-26.1%, Linux-4.9% and Mac-8.2%. It is obvious that Microsoft is currently…

Should you really send this email?!

OK I saw this post today (http://www.onlineitdegree.net/email-overload/) and thought wow, silly but almost dead on. My main complaint with how email is destroying the business economies today is that we are overburdened with it and it needs to get under control.  This helps, but it is up to each individual.  Stop sending so much needless…

Become a Member of the File Association

Melanie emailed me recently and said that something had broken on her computer.  In the past when she opened a photograph in her computer it opened in Windows Photo Viewer. Suddenly it started opening in Microsoft Internet Explorer.  What is up with that? Melanie has a file association problem.  When something on your computer changes…

Google Calendar Sync

After last week’s column about Google’s calendar I could not believe the number of emails I received.  The great majority of them were asking about tying that calendar to others, mainly Outlook for people who use Microsoft products in the office.  I wrote about this several years ago but the response deserves it again, along…