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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Dell Inspiron 3530 Laptop.
If Microsoft’s plan to stop supporting Windows 10 with security updates in October has you looking for a really good, but affordable replacement machine, I believe this Dell is an excellent choice for an all-around, general-purpose laptop.
Click here to check out the Dell Inspiron 3530 Laptop at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features one of the most photographed monuments in all of France: Paris iconic Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile. I hope you like it.
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April’s winner will receive this fantastic P3 Lite Mini Gaming PC.
These tiny brick-sized mini PCs are simply amazing with all the power, speed, RAM and SSD storage space they manage to fit inside such a small enclosure. This is a fantastic machine!
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on April 30 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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One of the most irritating things about Windows is how you are frequently prompted to run some programs as “Administrator” even when YOU are the administrator.
This makes sense if you have multiple users on the same PC, but not if you are the only person who ever uses it.
If this irritates you as well, it’s easy to coax Windows into running any program as Administrator by default. Just follow these simple steps: [Read more…]
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Laptops and notebook computers are getting thinner and lighter all the time.
And as you probably know, that makes it more important than ever to protect them from being damaged while you’re carrying them from place to place.
Laptop bags have been around as long as laptops themselves, but most people these days seem to prefer carrying their machines in laptop backpacks.
If you’ve been looking for a great laptop backpack at an affordable price, let me tell you about one that I really love.
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Windows’ native “Uninstall a program” utility is an extremely inefficient and cumbersome tool for removing programs from your machine.
In addition to being slow to display a list of installed applications and remove the ones selected, the removal process sometimes fails and almost always leaves behind traces of uninstalled programs which clutter up the Windows registry and slow your system down.
As luck would have it, there are several excellent third-party alternatives to Windows’ Uninstaller utility. [Read more…]