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Tips for speeding up a sluggish Windows PC

Posted on June 13, 2025

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Modern personal computers are amazing machines. They allow us to do things in minutes that once took hours or days as well as many other things that couldn’t be done at all in times past.

But even with all their awesome power and capabilities, computers are no fun to use when they’re running slowly and freezing up at random times.

Today I’m going to discuss a few things you can do to help speed up a sluggish PC and hopefully avoid having to deal with erratic system performance.

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This awesome tool will quickly uninstall any program and remove all its traces

Posted on April 18, 2025

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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…]

Q&A: How do I combine several short videos into one long one?

Posted on February 20, 2025

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Question from Tina: Our church hosted a gospel music festival this past weekend and I videoed the performances of eight groups, each of which sang several songs each.

There was a considerable gap between the performances so I stopped recording after each group had finished singing their last song.

That left me with eight relatively short videos instead of just long one.

How can I combine all of those short videos to make one long video? [Read more…]

Why OlderGeeks is my favorite free downloads site

Posted on June 2, 2024

Regular readers of this blog know how much I enjoy recommending the great free software tools that I use every day on my own computers and mobile devices.

One of the most amazing things about the Internet age is how we can download useful programs and apps to complete most any task we can imagine at absolutely no cost whatsoever.

I like to call it the era of ubiquitous freebies.

But the above being said, free downloads can often have a dark side…

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How to check the health of your PC’s hard drive

Posted on April 14, 2024

Personal computers are amazing things. They allow us to do things and work in ways that were simply unimaginable just a few short years ago.

But they are also complex machines that run millions of lines of programming code each day while storing our digital lives on hard drive platters that spin thousands of times per minute.

The hard drive is arguably the most important part inside any PC, and unfortunately it’s also one of the most likely parts to fail. [Read more…]