When you search in the Start Menu in Windows 11 you will find that Microsoft have a Smart Search feature that can offer you what it believes are relevant searches and even adverts. You might not want these though, especially if you have already set your…
Author: Mike Halsey
OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud storage and file sync utility, it’s built into Microsoft365, and it’s an incredibly useful feature. Sometimes however you can find that OneDrive becomes corrupt, fails to work on a PC, and can be run at all. Luckily there’s are easy fixes…
Diagnose, troubleshoot and repair any type of problems on your PC from startup and file access to cloud services and the issues caused by hybrid-work. This book contains everything you need to know to keep PC systems running optimally, and to repair problems quickly and efficiently.…
Sometimes you need to reset Microsoft’s OneDrive file backup and synchronisation service, and set it up again. This might be because it has become corrupt, or it might be because you want the files syncing to a different drive or folder on your PC. OneDrive…
When you choose to purchase cloud services for your business or organisation you might be concerned about the sustainability of those services, or whether in purchasing services run from major datacentres you’re actually making the problem of climate change worse. The simple truth is that…
We all want more life from the batteries on our mobile devices. It used to be the case that we would only get a few hours of use before the battery died on a device, now we aim to get more than a full day. …
We all want the batteries in our mobile devices to last for longer, so we don’t find ourselves having battery anxiety before the end of the day. Fortunately Google have added useful battery management features to Android, you can find these in Settings under Battery. Some of…
Astro vs Pro 1 X vs Titan Slim, What Planet Got Right
Written – August 2022 Many of you will know that I am a huge fan of keyboard phones, or perhaps more accurately, handheld mobile computers as I use “phone” functionality on my devices only when I’m actually forced to do so. I have had a…