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Why a Quiet PC is Good for the Planet

Did you know that having a noisy PC is bad for the environment, and bad for climate change.  This might come as a surprise for many but it’s a truism that means you might be making a negative impact on your personal or business carbon-footprint,…

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Manage Hung and Misbehaving Web Apps in Edge

If you have a lot of tabs open in your web browser, you might find that you have one website or web app which misbehaves, consumes too much memory or processor time, or that crashes completely.  You can view what’s going on with your browser…

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Add and Manage Languages and Spell-Checking in Edge

Microsoft’s Edge browser gives you full control over the languages used and installed in the browser, and that are also used for automatic spell-checking when you type into web forms.  To access the language settings, open the main menu in Edge by clicking the menu…

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Take Screenshots Easily in Windows

You can take screenshots really easily in Windows, both of your whole desktop, and also of individual open apps or select parts of the desktop or apps.  From the desktop or from within an app at any time press Windows key + Shift + S to…

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Add a Gmail Account to Outlook.com

If you use, or like the look and feel of Microsoft’s Outlook.com webmail service, did you know that you can now add your Gmail account to it.  Doing this will enable you to use your Google email through the Microsoft portal just as you would…

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Rename Your PCs to Better Identify Them

When you install Windows on a PC, or purchase a new PC it will have an obscure name such as Desktop-DS0VFGI which might not cause any problems if you only have a single PC, but if you need to manage multiple devices on a network, or…

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Manage Speaker and Microphone Properties in Windows

One of the most common problems people have on PCs is having their computer set to the correct speaker, headphone, and microphone options when they need them.  I have written about how you can easily manage audio devices from the Taskbar, but sometimes you need…

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Bypass Websites that Block Adblockers

Adverts online can be annoying, especially auto-play videos, and so adblockers such as the hugely popular Adblock Plus have grown in popularity significantly in recent years.  Unfortunately this also means that an ever increasing number of websites are blocking your access if you have an…

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Quickly Create Virtual Machines in Hyper-V

Sometimes when you’re using virtual machines in Hyper-V, you don’t always have to create your own virtual environment as Microsoft provide some pre-configured environments for development and deployment in Windows and Ubuntu Linux.  From the main Hyper-V panel, click Quick Create in the top right corner of…

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