How To Guides

How To Better Secure Your Google Account [Subscribers]

By Kevin / October 9, 2024

Keeping your Google account secure is more important than ever—especially since it’s linked to many parts of your digital life. In this guide, we’ll cover two essential steps to boost your security: managing third-party access and enabling two-factor authentication (2FA).

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How To Reset Windows 11 [Premium]

By Kevin / September 16, 2024

There are any number of reasons why you might want to or need to “reset” Windows 11. These might include virus or malware infection, or even a brand new computer where you want to avoid the manufacturer-altered version of Windows it came with, or the bundled software.

Here is the step-by-step process on how to download a “clean” copy of Windows directly from Microsoft and have your computer back up and running fairly quickly, though setup for your given needs will take longer.

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Tips On How To Make Windows 11 Less Annoying and Intrusive By Disabling Upsell Notifications and Other Messages

By Kevin / March 9, 2024

You can do several things to change more Windows settings to minimize the number of annoying upsell notifications and “it’s time to finish setting up your PC” messages you see. What you leave on or off is up to you, but generally, these changes should make Windows feel less annoying and intrusive.

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How To Use System Restore in Windows 10 [Premium]

By Kevin / February 4, 2024

In this blog post exclusive to paid subscribers, I will talk about and walk you through the System Restore feature in Windows 10. This feature allows you to effectively rollback Windows itself to a previous time when things seemed to be working correctly before a recent change.

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How To Use System Restore in Windows 10

By Kevin / February 4, 2024

In this blog post, I will talk about and walk you through the System Restore feature in Windows 10. This feature allows you to effectively rollback Windows itself to a previous time when things seemed to be working correctly before a recent change.

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System Cleanup Series: How To Use PatchMyPC to Keep Your Programs Up to Date

By Kevin / January 31, 2024

In this post, I’ll talk about downloading, installing, and using PatchMyPC as an all-in-one installer for many of the most commonly used free programs and as an easy way to keep your programs up to date!

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System Cleanup Series: How To Use PatchMyPC to Keep Your Programs Up to Date [Subscribers]

By Kevin / January 31, 2024

In this post, I’ll talk about downloading, installing, and using PatchMyPC as an all-in-one installer for many of the most commonly used free programs and as an easy way to keep your programs up to date!

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System Cleanup Series: Windows Update in Windows 11 [Premium]

By Kevin / January 23, 2024

In this blog post exclusive to paid subscribers, I will show you around Windows Update in Windows 11. It is often suggested that we go to Windows Update and click “Check For Updates”, but there are a few more options to help get the most out of Windows Update.

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How To Backup and Restore Your Firefox Bookmarks [Subscribers]

By Kevin / January 19, 2024

In this post, I’m going to talk about and walk you through how to backup your Firefox Bookmarks. I’ll also show you how to restore them after a fresh install of Windows or Firefox itself.

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The First Things To Do When Setting Up Windows 11 – Part 2 – Desktop Icons, Removing Pre-installed Programs, Startup Items

By Kevin / November 30, 2023

This is Part 2 of my blog post series on the steps I recommend when setting up Windows 11.

We’re going to review Desktop Icons, Remove pre-installed programs, and disable unwanted Startup Items.

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The First Things To Do When Setting Up Windows 11 – Part 5 – Disable File Explorer Ads, Enable System Restore

By Kevin / November 26, 2023

This is Part 5 of my blog post series on the steps I recommend when setting up Windows 11. This post covers disabling ads in File Explorer, and enabling System Restore.

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The First Things To Do When Setting up Windows 11 – Part 4 – Hibernate and Sleep, File Extensions, Lock Screen Ads and Tips

By Kevin / November 26, 2023

This is Part 4 of my blog post series on the steps I recommend when setting up Windows 11. This post covers hibernation and sleep, file extensions, and disabling ads and tips on the Lock Screen.

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The First Things to Do When Settings Up Windows 11 – Part 3 – Notifications, Web Browser, PatchMyPC

By Kevin / November 26, 2023

This is Part 3 of my blog post series on the steps I recommend when setting up Windows 11. This post covers notifications, choosing a web browser, and using PatchMyPC to update programs.

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How to Install and Use the 1Password Firefox Browser Extension

By Kevin / November 24, 2023

In this post, I’ll show you how to install the 1Password browser extension for Firefox. This makes logging into websites much more secure and convenient.

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Installing and Using the 1Password Chrome Extension

By Kevin / November 24, 2023

In this post, I will show you how to install the Chrome extension for 1Password, the Password Manager. After these steps, 1Password should recognize the website you’re on and auto-fill your login details.

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Downloading and Using The 1Password Desktop App

By Kevin / November 24, 2023

This blog post walks you through how to install and use the 1Password desktop app. I have used the browser extensions for 1Password, and before that LastPass, but I find them somewhat unreliable, and each browser needs to be “reset” occasionally, which means re-installing any extensions. I prefer the desktop app.

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How To Download, Install, and Use 1Password

By Kevin / November 24, 2023

In this blog post series, I will talk about and walk you through how to download, install and use the password manager called 1Password, which is an affordable, paid solution with basically everything you’ll need as a personal or even small business user, including the standalone desktop application, and the browser plugins for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge to assist you with logging into websites securely.

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The First Things To Do When Setting Up Windows 11 – Part 1 – Windows Update, App Updates, Taskbar and Start Menu

By Kevin / November 18, 2023

Congratulations on your new computer! It’s always very exciting to bring a new system home to replace the aging one that has seen better days. Since it’s a new computer, it most likely came with Windows 11. Here are the things I recommend doing in terms of setting up your new PC!

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