25 years on, we are reminded of the big changes Win95 showed compared to the preceding Win3.1 (I'm talking of home/consumer versions). 25 years is a long time...

A friend has a computer that needs to be warmed up in cold weather before it will start. He blows hot air into it from a small electric floor-heater. Then it...

Do you keep the native Microsoft Win10 default app programs? o (which do you keep & which do you delete)? After BSOD issues, I'm cleaning up a new Windows 10...

Does Teamviewer depend on the Net to know one's Your ID? My brother just called and for, I think, the first time, I couldn't fix him up, wrt Windows. When...

I routinely have a dozen windows open on my desktop . What determines the order they are opened when Windows starts up? And is there any way I can control...

How can I modify Windows 10 so that every time I (or a program) tries to invoke Word, LibreOffice's swriter runs instead? Thanks.

Is there any way to set up a link (or sumpin') that will cause say LibreOffice's Swriter to be invoked whenever I click on word? Or otherwise try to invoke...

I have a task that runs every morning and, at its completion, sends me an email. It has been doing this for months. Today, I opened Task Scheduler to see...

Windows 10 Pro, 10.0.19041.450, 2004. So I am a little concerned about one of my portable hard drives I use for backing up. It is making a little soft...

Do you use the native default Windows 10 Windows Defender as your sole security/av protection? Checking just now, I see it's now called "Windows Security" I...

Well, I was looking at a couple of upgrades for a friend's computer. I built the computer for them several years ago, so it's now time for a few performance...

Now that I sometimes have the laptop and desktop running at the same time, and I listen to web radio from whichever is doing a better job, I wanted a...

OT Am I waiting for data or not? I suppose this is a webbrowser question but my setup to ask FFox is still on the backup HDD. How is it, when watching a...

Two stories. 1) Yesterday, in win7 fwiw, in Firefox, in the searchbox to the right or the url box, I'm typing a search word and I notice it's coming out...

What's with the fandom website talking about games in the future as though we already have them? Look up Civilization VII, and they talk about a game that WAS...

Hi, I use a WinXP device to access Win10 PCs. Win10 lists errors in "Event Viewer". How do I set 'native mode' on Win10. Details please. I wouldn't ask here...

I need to set a selective start with msconfig to replicate the conditions of a safe mode with network support, without being in safe mode. The point is to be...

First, can someone kindly check whether they already see the previous version of this post please? The SENT folder of my newsgroup/email program (Forte's...

Is tit my imagination or are they these days selling a lot of PC's without DVD drives? If you say No, I'll look harder or look somewhere else. I"ve been...

How to open an encrypted file easy as possible? The filename is "encrypted.7z" in folder "c:\files\other". Can that a reference to that file be put on the...