On your Windows 10 desktop, a background, also known as wallpaper, is simply the picture covering your desktop, behind the icons. To...

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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...

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...

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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...

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Yep here is another scam and again it involves scammers pretending to be from Microsoft!! What's the scam? The scam is someone phones...

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Sainsbury’s has confirmed that an email promising £90 for taking part in a ‘marketing survey’ has nothing to do with it. If you have a...

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Looking for a new laptop then we have found a model which is the perfect replacement. It has a pretty fast processor (Intel Core i5)...