The UAC, or User Account Control, has been with PC users since Windows Vista. It was one of the reasons people hated Vista.
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January 9, 2015Fix the Secure Desktop UAC
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January 7, 2015Dear Windows, Why Did You Randomly Restart?For me, few things beat getting a new computer. I enjoy setting up and configuring, making new adjustments, and getting it all just so. Occasionally, however, I forget to change one setting. Specifically, it’s the setting that seems to cause a perfectly good, brand new computer to randomly restart itself. That’s annoying.
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December 24, 2014King of the Media CardsIt’s been almost a year since I wrote about the various media card formats. Over time, one of the 19 potential formats has come out on top. I knew one would, because that’s how manufacturers and consumers eventually, organically work. The question is, which one?
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November 19, 2014Re-Associating a FileWhen you use a program to create a file, that file is associated with the program. The link is made based on the filename extension, which is the last part of the filename appearing after the period. For example,
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October 29, 2014Thumb Drive How-To Guide You have them. You use them. But not until you read my handy one-post guide will you really feel like you know them. October 22, 2014If It’s Tuesday, Microsoft Must Have a PatchDo you regularly update Windows? You should! And it seems like every Tuesday something new requires that you restart your computer.
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October 15, 2014Save Me!My advice: Save your documents! Save them right away, as soon as your create something, such as a smidgen of text in a word processor. Then save frequently and often. That’s good advice, but it begs the question of where to save.
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October 13, 2014Adios, Dial-Up ModemThe sun is about to set on the dial-up modem, once the most common way to access the Internet. According to Pew Research, fewer than 3 percent of Internet users have a dial-up modem. An era has passed. October 8, 2014A Better USB ConnectorDon’t get me wrong: The USB cable is genius. It improves upon a nightmare of cables that once festered behind every computer like a nest of snakes. The problem? While you have a 50 percent chance of plugging the cable in the proper way, you get it wrong about 80 percent of the time.
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October 4, 2014Wi-Fi SecurityI could write an entire blog post on keeping your home or office Wi-Fi network secure. Instead, I’m providing a link to an excellent article by Amit Agarwal, founding of the website Digital Inspiration:
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