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Self-tutoring about home computer use, Windows 10: the tutor mentions something he had to do. Lately I’ve been using software that lists files downward (no big surprise). However, it won’t scroll them up from the bottom. What I mean is, …
Self-tutoring about home computers: the tutor continues a story with one he uses. I recall reading that, with FAT32, a file can’t be over 4GB. Sometime, I noticed that a USB drive I was using with ReadyBoost has the FAT32 …
Self-tutoring about new beginnings and computers: the tutor mentions one. I’ve a Windows 10 computer from 2017. It didn’t work very well when I first got it, but then had its good times. In mid December it went from working …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: when hard refresh might have an unclear meaning. I’ve believed that “hard refresh” means the browser ignores the cache to reload from the source. You might do so when you think a page has changed …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor follows up about ReadyBoost. In yesterday’s post I mention the motivation behind my re-discovery of Ready Boost. I read this article from techrepublic.com which affirms that ReadyBoost is still available in Windows 10. …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions a re-discovery. The kitchen desktop and my son’s laptop are chop-chop compared to this one. Yet, they’re all Windows 10. This is a discount PC, but still…why is it so much slower? …
Self-tutoring about file types: the tutor mentions a new one he’s encountered. Downloading a zip file, I thought it was done, so opened the downloads folder. There were two new ones – unconfirmed_[some digits].crdownload as well as the_file.zip. Naturally I …
Self-tutoring about file formats: the tutor mentions a way to open a pub file. An email came in with an attachment of file type .pub. I’m not familiar with that extension; it turns out to be from Microsoft Publisher, which …
Self-tutoring about file formats: the tutor mentions 7z and zip. The other day I compressed a folder into 7z format to submit somewhere, and was told only zip format would be accepted. I was using 7-Zip, which also compresses to …
Self-tutoring about web search strategy: the tutor gives his number 0 idea. My experience is that, typically, the information I need is on the Web – but where? Some information is surprisingly hard (for me) to find. Why? I didn’t …