Home computer use: 5 million files?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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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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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