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How to Enable and Disable System Icons in the System Tray in Windows Computer

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 27, 2023

In the default Windows installation, basic functions and settings are already in place. Among these are the system icons located in the system tray or the items shown in the far right of the taskbar of Windows. When you install software programs in your computer, some of them automatically create their corresponding icon in the system tray. Over time, and as you install more of these programs, your system tray will be filled with various icons. To manage your system icons in your system tray, here are the steps: Step… Read More

How to Backup Windows Live Mail Emails? Where Are these Emails Stored?

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 25, 2023

Windows Live Mail 2012 is the current version of Microsoft’s free email program that serves as the successor of the widely used Outlook Express in Windows XP. It was called Windows Mail in Windows Vista and then turned as Windows Live Mail as part of the free software suite called Windows Essentials 2012. If you are using Windows Live Mail, have you ever wondered where are your emails stored so that you can backup them manually? Yes, if you know the actual location of your Windows Live Mail emails, you… Read More

How to Add and Configure Yahoo! Mail in Outlook 2010/2007

Email Tips How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 25, 2023

There is a big change in Yahoo Mail that came with the changes that Yahoo made with their interface in the past few months ago. These days, FREE Yahoo Mail users can now use POP and SMTP email clients to access their emails. This feature was previously available for paid version of Yahoo Mail only. Prepare Your Yahoo Mail Account for POP/SMTP Access Allow your Yahoo Mail account first to be accessed using a POP email software like MS Outlook 2007/2010/2013, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, etc. This is done by… Read More

How to Add a New User Account in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 25, 2023

If you just got your brand-new laptop or desktop today, chances are, your computer is shipped with the latest stable release of Windows 8. or Windows 8.1. In order to maximize your use of Windows 8/8.1, knowledge of basic Windows operations is of utmost importance. This article will describe how to add and manage user accounts in this new version of Windows. NOTE: These same procedures also apply in Windows 10 and 11 computers but the screenshots are made from a Windows 8.1 machine. How to Add and Manage User… Read More

How to Check Your Mailbox Size in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Email Tips How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 23, 2023

If you are using the well know and widely used email program – MS Outlook 2010 or the latest version, you might be enjoying its whole bunch of features. Indeed the product has evolved so much over the years. However, you need to monitor the size of your mailboxes so that they don’t get bloated over time. This is especially true if you have email accounts set up as POP or POP3. In MS Outlook, you have the option to add several email accounts. These email accounts also have the… Read More

Microsoft Word Tip: How to insert a Word file into another Word file to avoid copy and paste

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 23, 2023

There are certain times that we need to insert several pages or blocks of texts or paragraphs from one Word document to another. This is easily done using the conventional Copy & Paste method. But how about if you need an entire document to be appended to an existing Word document? In the scenario described, the copy and paste method can still be used since you can easily select all the text in the document and copy them, then paste them in the other document at insertion point. However, there… Read More

Microsoft Word Tip: Repair damaged and corrupted MS Word files easily and quickly

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 23, 2023

It is really frustrating when an MS Word file that you have worked for several hours, days or weeks will no longer open after MS Word gives an error message. This usually happens when MS Word crashed, or when your computer crashed while the Word file is still open. Repair Microsoft Word documents with ease. Easy Word Recovery offers step-by-step recovery for corrupted and erased documents made by all versions of Microsoft Word up to Word 2010. State-of-the-art Word repair algorithms enable surefooted recovery of badly damaged documents as well… Read More

My Firefox web browser is getting slow. Status bar shows “Connecting to i.74055djs.info”

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 23, 2023

Just recently, I notice that my Mozilla Firefox was becoming slow. I checked my ISP and the tests reported no internet speed issues. So I immediately suspected that this is caused by a malware infection. I also noticed that the status bar is showing “Connecting to i.74055djs.info” whenever I browse a web page. First, I needed to run a standard system scan using my Avast antivirus. Malwares were found and removed. I then setup my Avast to perform a Boot Scan, then restarted my computer, some other malwares were removed…. Read More

How to Defragment Drive C

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 21, 2023

As your computer is used, many times data are written to your hard disk drive. These happen when you create a file and save it to your hard drive, when you copy files from external drives like portable hard disk drives or USB Flash drives, when you download files from the internet, and many other sources. On the other hand, many times data are also removed or deleted from the disk drive. These happen when you delete a file or files and moved them to your Recycle Bin, when you… Read More