Articles in Category: Owners and Patrons Content

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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

Address Bar & Search Box

Tip of the Day: Don’t Use Search to Visit a Site

Windows Mail in Windows 11

Tip of the Day: Consider the Mail App

Scam!

Tip of the Day: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True…

Chromebook

Tip of the Day: Consider a Chromebook

Locked

Tip of the Day: Back Up Encrypted Data Unencrypted

Walter on the Beach

Tip of the Day: Discover Image Search

RAM

Tip of the Day: Make Sure You Can Add RAM

Windows Search Service

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Content Indexing for Speed

Dell Software

Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to Your Manufacturer’s Software Too

Opening a text file in WordPad

Tip of the Day: Why Not WordPad?

Tearing Off and Replacing a Browser Tab,

Tip of the Day: Tear Off Your Tabs

High Contrast offer

Tip of the Day: High Contrast in a Keystroke

Tip of the Day: Don’t Pay for Free (Unless You Want To)

OneDrive Mobile App

Tip of the Day: Access Files on Your Smartphone

Side By Side Windows

Tip of the Day: SHIFT+Click and Side-by-Side

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Tip of the Day: Move and Copy Files Using the Keyboard

Settings Search

Tip of the Day: Search Within Settings

Windows 11 Taskbar Position Setting

Tip of the Day: Move the Windows 11 Taskbar Back

Taskbar Icons

Tip of the Day: Large and Small Taskbar Icons

The Enter Key

Tip of the Day: the Many Uses of Enter

Lastpass Indicating No Entry for this site.

Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to Your Vault

Tip of the Day: Resize the Tiled Start Menu

Gmail Text Style Selection

Tip of the Day: Change the Default Text Style in Gmail

Quick Access Toolbar

Tip of the Day: the Quick Access Toolbar

Gmail reading pane option.

Tip of the Day: Gmail Has a Reading Pane

Toggle Keys option

Tip of the Day: Get Notification When Caps Lock is Toggled

Dell Support Assist

Tip of the Day: Avoid Third-Party Support/Maintenance Programs

Windows Command Prompt

Tip of the Day: Filenames with Spaces on the Command Line

POP3

Tip of the Day: Consider POP3

Problem Steps Recorder Recording

Tip of the Day: Problem Steps Recorder

The No More Ransom project homepage.

Tip of the Day: Remember the “No More Ransom” Project

An Empty Google Doc

Tip of the Day: A Quick Way to Create New Google Docs

Inspect pane open on askleo.com

Tip of the Day: Inspect to Bypass the Browser Cache

Animation of auto-sizeing File Explorer columns

Tip of the Day: Autosize File Explorer Columns to Fit

Ask Leo!

Never Gonna Give You Up

Gmail search

Tip of the Day: Use Gmail Search

Thumbdrive

Tip of the Day: Erase That Thumbdrive

Power Button

Tip of the Day: Long-press the Power Button

Sleepy Bear

Tip of the Day: You May Not Need to Hibernate with an SSD