Windows 10 Hints & Tips - Customize Battery Saver
The battery saver ends all the unnecessary tasks running in the background. This enhances the system’s battery back-up. You can enable it...
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Windows 10 Hints & Tips - Monitor using Task Manager
There is an improved Task Manager present in Windows 10. This manager has a better layout and is a storehouse of useful and digestible...
Protect your tech - PayPal & Apple Scams
Article in the April Edition of Computer Active Issue 628 Below is the article.
Windows 10 Hints & Tips - Sign Out from User tile menu
The User tile menu holds options like Shutdown and Restart. You can also sign in as another user to the same system using this power...
Windows 10 Hints & Tips - Night Light
Windows 10 allows you to use Night light to save your eyes from the harmful emission of blue light. In addition you can schedule this...
Fed up with phishing emails? Report them to National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Phishing emails are something that we have encountered or have a regular email that comes into the inbox and we have never had anything...
Wasteful printers to avoid
While the printers above match top-quality prints with affordable printing costs, not all models reach such levels of excellence. Some...
A simple tool to help you manage your passwords..
Like all of us, we have a few passwords to remember, and internet browsers make things easier at the same time make things harder, by...
Buying a printer: the key questions to consider.
If you're not sure what type of printer you need, here are three key questions to consider when buying a new printer: What will you use...
Keeping your Internet Browsers up to date is so important..
Regular checking to ensure your internet browsers are up to date is a great way of making sure you are not left open to malware or adware...
How to Change the Desktop Background in Windows 10
On your Windows 10 desktop, a background, also known as wallpaper, is simply the picture covering your desktop, behind the icons. To...
Secure Passwords - Creating And Remembering Them!
Passwords. The bane of modern existence. To celebrate this nuisance, the holiday gods have given us World Password Day, where thousands...
What is the difference between Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive?
HDD and SSD Explained The traditional spinning hard drive (below picture) is the essential non-volatile storage on a computer. That is,...
Keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10
For many years, it’s been easy to place two windows side-by-side on the desktop. Windows 10 expands on that concept, letting you easily...
Why Windows 10 does not like sleeping?
Windows for years has had the feature of 'Sleep', which in theory is a great feature. It allows you to put your computer to sleep (not...
The dos and don’ts of backing up
Nobody wants to lose their files or photos – follow some basic rules to avoid losing your data Malware attacks, hardware malfunctions and...
Which? Article - My experience of a bank transfer payee scam
Has a large sum of unsolicited money ever appeared in your account? It happened to me a couple of months ago. Here’s how the attempted...
Speed up your computer
Streamline your startup Some programs and apps are set to launch automatically whenever you boot up your PC. However, these can slow down...
Not another Scam!!
Yep here is another scam and again it involves scammers pretending to be from Microsoft!! What's the scam? The scam is someone phones...
Upgrading to Windows 11, some can straight away and some can't without a tweak to the settings!!
Many computer users have asked if they can upgrade to Windows 11. The answer in short is yes, everyone can, but not all computers are...