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Password?

Tip of the Day: Remember Your Password

Documents Properties

Tip of the Day: Move Any Default Folder

Windows Desktop Corner

Tip of the Day: Show the Desktop with a Click

Typing

Tip of the Day: There’s Nothing Special About Keyloggers

Set Up Speech Recognition

Tip of the Day: Consider Speech Recognition and Speech-to-Text

Install additional software

Tip of the Day: Always Choose Custom Install (and then Pay Attention)

No Spam

Tip of the Day: Mark Spam as Spam and Move On

System Protection

Tip of the Day: Reduce the Number of Restore Points

Read The Friendly Message

Tip of the Day: Read What’s On the Screen (PLEASE!)

Screenshot of the Telegram App

Tip of the Day: Screenshots Are Forever

NAS With Multiple Drives

Tip of the Day: RAID Disk Formats Are Proprietary

Frustrated head on laptop.

Tip of the Day: Try Another Computer

Tip of the Day: Play with Windows File Explorer Views

Spying

Tip of the Day: Remember, It’s Your Company’s Equipment

About Chrome

Tip of the Day: Keep Your Browser Up To Date

Modifying an installation

Tip of the Day: Remember Modify in Add/Remove Programs

Candle

Tip of the Day: Plan for Your Death

Router with a shield and globe with an ethernet port and cable.

Tip of the Day: Reboot Your Router

comic-book style image of a tombstone in a graveyard which has chiselled on to it "RIP Leo's myspace account"

Tip of the Day: Ignore Old Accounts

Printers and Scanners

Tip of the Day: Remove and Re-Add Your Printer

Locked

Tip of the Day: Whole Drive Encryption Only Protects When a Disk is Not Mounted

Router with a shield and globe with an ethernet port and cable.

Tip of the Day: Whoever Provides Your Internet Is Your Internet Provider

Spam

Tip of the Day: Spam, Junk, or Bulk?

Yahoo Verification Options

Tip of the Day: Check All Your Two-Factor Options Before Giving Up

Advanced Sharing

Tip of the Day: A Cheap, Two-Step NAS

Thumbdrive

Tip of the Day: You’ll Probably Lose that Thumb Drive. Plan Ahead.

Where to get Apps setting in Windows 11.

Tip of the Day: Get Apps From Anywhere (or Not)

An extremely bulging battery.

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore that Bulging Battery

A password in notepad.

Tip of the Day: Use Notepad For Passwords

Taskbar

Tip of the Day: Double Down on the Taskbar

Starting Windows Backup

Tip of the Day: Windows Built-in Backup is Better than None

Using site:microsoft.com.

Tip of the Day: site:microsoft.com For Better Results

A Location, Shared

Tip of the Day: Share Your Location with Friends

Searching for *.txt

Tip of the Day: Use Wildcards in Search

Screenshots Folder

Tip of the Day: Move the Windows Screenshots Folder

Windows 11 Desktop

Tip of the Day: Quit Relying on the Desktop

YouTube Security Reminder

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore Security Reminders

Stop Spam - Twice!

Tip of the Day: Your Two Spam Filters

UAC

Tip of the Day: Admin in a Keystroke

Recuva

Tip of the Day: Run Recuva Even When You Don’t Need It

Meme

Tip of the Day: Stop Responding to Silly Facebook Quizzes

Five lines of text. Or is it?

Tip of the Day: A Line Isn’t Always a Line

Android is Blocking Notifications

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Individual Android App Notifications

Kindle Cloud Reader

Tip of the Day: You Don’t Need a Kindle to Read Kindle Books

Gift Card Danger

Tip of the Day: Requests for Gift Cards Are a Sign of a Scam

Get Adobe Reader

Tip of the Day: Install Acrobat Reader

Windows Defender Offline scan in progress.

Tip of the Day: Microsoft Defender Offline Scan

Downloads folder set to a Dropbox sub-folder

Tip of the Day: Consider Moving Your Browser’s Downloads Folder

Install for All Users

Tip of the Day: Install for All Users

Gmail before operator

Tip of the Day: Gmail Before and After