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Home computer use: 5 million files?

By Jack Posted on March 12, 2025 Posted in home computer use Tagged with windows reinstall

Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions something he learned from a virus scan. Every so often, I do a full system scan of a PC. Today I did so, on a computer I use a lot. The scan …

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Home computer use: why people like Windows

By Jack Posted on November 26, 2024 Posted in home computer use Tagged with capitalization, Linux, Windows

Self-tutoring about home computing: the tutor mentions a comparison between Windows and Linux. In my experience as a programmer, Linux is my favourite os. Pretty much anything one needs is available with apt install (or other similar terminal command), usually …

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Home computer use: how to find Windows 10 product key

By Jack Posted on August 22, 2024 Posted in home computer use Tagged with command prompt, Windows product key

Self-tutoring about computer situations: the tutor mentions finding “the key.” My computer is complaining that the C drive will soon go. Up to me, I wouldn’t use Windows, but my wife likes it; I’ll admit it’s good in some ways. …

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Home computer use: the fn key

By Jack Posted on August 19, 2024 Posted in home computer use Tagged with fn key

Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions the fn key. I was dealing with a Bios issue which I needed to bypass in order to investigate further. To do so, I might press F1, supposedly. Yet, when I would …

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Home computer use: downloaded installation files

By Jack Posted on February 20, 2024 Posted in home computer use

Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions an issue that might come up sometimes. The other day, one of our home computers was complaining that it was nearly out of memory. Looking through it, one couldn’t help but notice …

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Home computer use: how to close Teams

By Jack Posted on February 18, 2024 Posted in home computer use

Self-tutoring about computer problem solving: the tutor mentions a trick. My computer security suite complained that, to update Teams, I had to close it. I would have said it wasn’t open. Yet, I restarted the computer, thinking that would certainly …

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Email: Gmail: labels

By Jack Posted on January 17, 2024 Posted in email, email programs

Self-tutoring about email programs: the tutor navigates the idea of labels in Gmail. I’m not typically a person who embraces new ways to do things, especially if “the old way” has worked fine. I wanted to make a new folder …

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Home computer use: copy and paste, perhaps with a step in between

By Jack Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in home computer use

Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions a trick he uses seldom, yet does count on sometimes. Moving between applications, it seems one often needs to copy a filename or link from one program into another. Yet, I find …

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Lifestyle, holidays: a night at the Dollar Store

By Jack Posted on December 30, 2022 Posted in file sharing, lifestyle

Self-tutoring about lifestyle: the tutor mentions last night’s trip to the dollar store. When I was a kid, we didn’t have dollar stores – at least not that I knew of. Today, they are all around here, and I couldn’t …

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Email programs: Gmail, continued: attachment size limit, receiving

By Jack Posted on December 26, 2022 Posted in email programs

Self-tutoring about Gmail: the tutor mentions the receiving limit for an attachment. In yesterday’s post I mention sending attachments via Gmail, and the fact that the capacity is 25MB. The receiving capacity for attachments in Gmail, however, may be 50MB. …

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