Subtitles can be useful when watching video. Maybe you’re watching a movie or TV show on a train or in a loud place, maybe you need to keep really quiet and don’t have headphones to hand. For my own case I find that watching a…
Sometimes you need to lock your screen or minimize all your open windows. This could be because you are using your laptop in a public location, at a coffee shop or on a train, and someone walks past as you are working on something sensitive,…
Notifications can be useful on our PCs, letting us know when we’ve received a message or an email, or telling us that an app or a Windows update is available, but they can disappear all too quickly, or sometimes be missed altogether, perhaps because you’re…
If you find your mouse or the trackpad on your laptop difficult to use, Windows 11 includes some features that can help considerably. You can find these in Settings under Accessibility. Click Mouse pointer and touch and you will see that you can change the mouse pointer style. …
Sometimes we just find typing on our keyboard difficult. This could be for a wide variety of reasons from having poor eyesight to shaky hands. Windows 11 includes some easy to use tools though that can make typing much easier. You can find these in Settings…
When you’re using the calculator in Windows 1 it can sometimes be all too easy to lose it under another, or several other open apps. This can frustrating when you’re trying to keep on track of calculations. Microsoft have thought of this however and the…
If you are colour blind you might find it difficult to read text and other items on your PC’s screen. Windows 11 comes with useful settings though to get around this, and make using your PC and much more pleasurable experience. In Settings click Accessibility in the…
It’s getting more and more common for people to not be able to see text, icons, and other things on their PC screen, in no small part because the resolutions of screens keep getting larger and larger, making everything we see smaller. If you also…
Ransomware is deeply unpleasant, and not something you ever want your computer to become infected by. What ransomware does is encrypt all the files and documents on your PC, including all your precious photos, and then demanding you pay a ransom to unlock them. If…
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