Let’s start with a little quiz. I say, “Big, bloated, and full of errors.” What do you say? Right, “Windows Registry.” One more: “Messing with it is risky.” If you guessed the registry again, you pass. While fooling around with your Windows registry does involve some risk, cleaning it out can have a positive impact on your PC’s overall performance. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Windows 10 has been around for a year, and while there are definitely good and bad parts of the operating system (OS), overall we’ve been pretty happy with the upgrade. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still plenty of annoying features that Windows users don’t need included in the OS. Since Windows 10 may be the last version of Windows ever, it’s worth taking some time to prune off these annoyances. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
Did you know that your Mac has a hidden word autocomplete feature? Or that holding down specific keys, such as A, brings up a set of special characters? Get to know more from this article in MakeUseOf.com
Microsoft’s Edge aspires to be your browser for the modern Web, the board on which you surf the Internet within Windows 10. It’s certainly functional. But how do you use it effectively? We can show you. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
There are just two weeks to go until Windows 10’s Anniversary Update rolls out to a PC, tablet, or phone (don’t laugh) near you. To help familiarize you with the big update here’s another nice little feature included in the new version of Windows 10: photo reminders in Cortana. Get the tips on this article from PCWorld.com
Excel does its best to handle hyperlinks such as email addresses and URLs, even though they’re incredibly awkward to shoehorn into spreadsheets. If you have only a few links in your spreadsheet, no problem. But hyperlinks use memory, and lots of hyperlinks in a spreadsheet, document, or email can slow your system to a crawl, crash the open file, or refuse to open the file (usually with a ‘not enough memory’ error message). Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Deserved or not, Mac OS X (and now, I suppose, MacOS Sierra) has a reputation for being more secure than Windows. But in 2016, is that reputation still deserved? What security threats exist for the Apple platform, and how are they affecting users? Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com