Category: From the Help Desk

People are often looking for ways to feel better knowing their trove of emails is safe. I’ve found a simple

With the resurgence of people building “classic” and “retro” gaming rigs, I thought it would be important to reveal what

Windows 10 has a convenient feature which allows you to specify your IP address depending on the wireless network you

Look at what appears when I visit Walmart.com: It’s asking me if I want to re-order those items. Trouble is

People commonly post stories about how they talked about some product or service, and then suddenly started seeing advertisements for

Do you have an output that looks like the one above? Congratulations! You’re mostly patched up. Here’s the simple break

Like many people this week, I was trying to run some official Microsoft PowerShell scripts related to “Meltdown” and “Spectre”

When it comes to trying to configure something that should be simple like “PORT FORWARDING” in a more complicated corporate

People often get scared by some bum information that spreads around social media. Last week I saw a post about

People ask how to get started with Linux all the time. But they need to know what the best distribution

If you can’t open the services window, try to see if perhaps the “.msc” file extension has lost it’s association

Some people absolutely love the Focused Inbox feature and how it simplifies their life. Other people can’t stand the thought

If your Facebook feed looks anything like mine, you’re seeing more and more Facebook posts that include phrases like “copy

In an era where international travelers are being asked for social media accounts at the border, or the fifth amendment

This is a simple fix I discovered while working on a larger, more complex problem, when my entire computer was

I recently ran in to an issue I’ve seen at least a dozen times before. This time, however, absolutely nothing

If you didn’t build a recovery image before you had problems with your Microsoft Surface device, good news! Microsoft will

The background: Our office recently picked up some new computers, both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Some of these computers,

I can’t believe I never put this article on my site before, it’s an ancient tip, and still useful for

LibreOffice (and it’s grand daddy, OpenOffice) are excellent programs with a long history in the Open Source community. The projects

Now that you’ve upgraded to Windows 10, there’s the “Ask me anything” field at the bottom of the screen, right

I’ve been reading people complaining about this for a few weeks now. It’s completely blown out of proportion, and has