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noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:11:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 21:01:00 +0000

Most of the training notes are now found on the above link or on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/ls7cl5h

Computer Maintenance

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:43:00 +0000

Computer Maintenance

by Dick Evans, www.rwevans.com

updated 1-19-2016

I am often asked what I use to keep my computer safe and running fast. This is what I use, but I am not guaranteeing them. I have never had a problem using them, but I cannot be held responsible if running them causes an issue with your computer.

Some basics regarding email. I usually let my email site (Yahoo for me) decide what is spam and although I look through it to make sure I have not missed an important email I usually just remove them. I have my emails set to not display images unless they are in my contact list. Images can be a source of malware. If I want the images to show, I can do so when I open the email. this also greatly speeds up my access to email. I rarely open any videos sent to me or open links sent within an email.

There are a number of programs listed below and I do use all of them. Many appear to do the same thing, but they each seem to find things the others do not. I run Glary daily and the others about once a week. My active files are backed up to the cloud using Mozy and I run Reflect backup about once a month to create an image of the hard drive on an external drive. I let each program update when it runs so I have the latest definitions available. I DO NOT accept the trial versions or allow them to add other programs or toolbars. Be careful to read the screens before you press OK or Continue buttons.

FREE Microsoft Defender for my AntiVirus

runs and updates automatically
Windows 8-10 has Defender built in. If it came with McAfee or Norton, you can uninstall and use Defender

FREE cleaner which remove junk from the computer and cleans up the registry file

www.ccleaner.com
I run it periodically and whenever my machine seems to be slowing down

FREE set of utility programs

http://www.glarysoft.com/glary-utilities/download/

I run this every day using the 1-click tab

FREE the defragger in Glary Utilities which brings segmented pieces of file together

run periodically from the Advanced tab to keep the file system defragged

FREE malware checker

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
I run it periodically and whenever my machine seems to be slowing down

FREE Spyware Checker: SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition

http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
I run this about once a week. It removes spyware the other programs miss and checks for toolbar issues as well.

FREE local backup from Macrium called Reflect

Needs an external USB drive of 250 gb; 1 tb is better
I run this at least once a month. It make as complete backup of my computer in an image format. If the hard drive has issues, I can use this image to bring my complete system back to the date of that last image. No need to reinstall anything.

FREE cloud backup from Mozy

http://mozy.com/home/free Use the code GFBU22 for extra .25 gb
Gives you 2.25 gb of free storage in the cloud if you use the above code, which you will key in at the recommendation page. I suggest letting it backup all your data EXCEPT pictures and movies. You should be way under the free limit. Your images and movies will be backed up in the local image backup. For additional backup of them, use a USB flash drive or burn to DVD’s.

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Easy Way to Send Pictures by Email

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 03:19:00 +0000

Just came across this website that has a small app you download. Then you can send one or a bunch of them by email. After selecting the ones to send you can even rename them and resize them for faster upload. Your pictures are zipped and sent for you.

http://zoomfoot.com/

And here is a great video on using it:
http://youtu.be/fMj6j58il1c

Resize That Picture

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:04:00 +0000

Here is a great site you can use without either downloading and installing software or having to upload your large images to do the editing.

http://pixlr.com/editor/

Go right to the site and it opens like it was installed on your computer. Locate the images on your computer, then click Image > Image Size. When you have it the size you want, File > Save and give it a name and location. Easy as that.

Here is a link to a good video on using this site and also how to use Paint to resize.

http://youtu.be/CchKeOZeqhY

Glary Utilities

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:31:00 +0000

I like using Glary Utilities. It has an easy to use interface with one click access. And the Advanced Tools contains many useful items such as a quick defragger and and easy to use program uninstaller.

Here is a great page on their site explaining what each of the tools in both 1 Click Maintenance and Advanced Tools can do for you:

http://feedback.glarysoft.com/

The New Yahoo Mail

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 03:31:00 +0000

Three things bothered me about the new look and feel of Yahoo Mail.

1. My tabs were gone
2. The new "conversation" view
3. The need to scroll down to click SEND

Well the tabs were not fixed, but they did add a new Recent folder in the left column that lets me see the emails I have looked at. It even shows me the email I am I the middle of composing so I can get beck into it.

I found how to turn off that nasty (my opinion) conversation view. Click the gear in the upper right corner. Then Settings > Viewing email. Uncheck the Enable conversations check box. Now you get to see things the way you used to.

On that same screen you can change to the basic email format and skip all the new stuff.

To get to the bottom of the screen to use the tool bar, press Ctrl+End. When you are finished writing your response you can Ctrl+End and then click SEND. Or you can just press Ctrl+Enter instead.

Thoughts on Browsers

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:53:00 +0000

It does not matter which browser we choose to use; chrome, Firefox, internet explorer, etc. They each allow us to either type an exact address (URL) to a website or one or more words to cause the browser to access our default search engine to look for a site.

However, remember that a search engine allows us to guess the location of a site to visit. Knowing the actual URL gives us immediate access taking away the guesswork. Guessing can easily take us to places we should not go allowing the potential for us to capture all types of malware in our travels.

So when searching, look at the results and where your next click will take you. Is it what you were looking for?

Remove Image Backgrounds

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:12:00 +0000

Ever take a great picture with your phone or your camera but it is filled with all kinds of stuff in the background?

Found a neat website that let me take this picture

And turn it into this one

And it was all done in the cloud. Give it a try at
http://clippingmagic.com/

Fix Chrome's New Tab Page

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:57:00 +0000

Chrome has a new look for its new tab page and I do not care for it. I want to see the list of apps is used to display. There is a fix for it. Read the following article. It is pretty easy to do.

Here are the steps I took:

In the address bar type chrome://flags and hit the enter key
Locate (use Ctrl+F) "Enable Instant Extended API" (without the quotes)
Pull down the selection arrow and choose Disabled

The next time you open your Chrome browser the tab will work like they used to.

Here is the link to the article I found:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/22878/chrome-new-tab-page

How is Your Website Doing?

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:25:00 +0000

I came across this interesting site the other day. It displays statistics about your site. Even gives you the ranking information--mine is like 5 million down. It shows a value for your site, but I have no idea how it arrives at it. Give it a try. If nothing else, it is fun to look at for some of the sites you frequent.

Guess what the #1 site is? Yup, Google.com, Here is what they have to say about them:

So check out urlm.co

Show Hidden Passwords

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:53:00 +0000

Most of my user names and passwords are set in my browser so when I access that site all I have to do is click sign in. Well I tried to sign into an account on a different machine and I had forgotten the password. When I went on this machine all I could see was *****. I did not want to click the forgot password link because it would have me change the password and it was working in my other machines and on my phones.

Google search to the rescue once again. There is an add-on for Chrome that will reveal a password when you click in the ****** field. It is called Show Password on Focus. I added the app and restarted Chrome. Then I went back to the sign in screen and clicked the **** field. The asterisks changed to the visible password and I used it on the new machine. Cool.

Here is the link to add it to your Chrome browser http://tinyurl.com/m6gepxl

And here is method #2 built right into Chrome. You can display all the saved user names and passwords in Chrome by entering the following URL into a new tab: http://chrome://settings/passwords

When you click on one of the password fields a button displays to the right of the password.

Click Show to display the actaul password instead of the asterisks.

iDrive FREE Cloud Backup

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:11:00 +0000

I came across this backup site the other day. They give you 5gb for free. Like them on Facebook and get .5gb more. The like them on Twitter and get another .5gb. And finally setup and use the service for an additional .5gb. That is a total of 6.5gb for free and more than enough for all my critical files.

You set the folders and the time to backup each day and it just happens. When it finishes you get a display on screen of how many files it backed up and an email in your inbox to let you know it did the backup.

Click the link below and give it a try. Nothing to lose and a safe place to keep your critical files.

https://www.idrive.com/?uid=U6K1S9L3C3

Thoughts on Backing Up

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:03:00 +0000

I recently had a question about backing up. We can use CD's, DVD's, flash drives, external drives, and even the cloud. The CD/DVD route is slow but effective. Flash drives are useful but limited in speed and capacity. External drives and the cloud seem to me to be the best methods. Here is what I do for my own backups.

To figure out how much space you will need to copy your data to an external device, Click Start > My Computer and locate your folder (under Users in Vista and above and Documents and Settings in XP). Right click and choose Properties to see how large an external device you will need to save all the data. My "Size on disk" is over 24 gb so it would not fit on a 16 gb flash drive. If yours is less than 16 gb, then you can click properties and Send To the USB drive. If not, use an external hard drive and Send To that drive instead.

A better approach, in my opinion is to use the Cloud daily and a backup application at least once a month.

First of all you need a cloud backup service that will backup your important files automatically. I use Mozy for that. Use the referral code GFBU22 to get the additional .25gb of storage--a total of 2.25 gb. This should allow you to backup all but your picture folder, and maybe that too depending on how big it is for free.

Here is a link to a class I gave on backups: http://rwevans.com/cccgc/BackingUp.pdf

As I mentioned in the class notes, I use EaseUS ToDo backup (http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/download.htm) to do a complete image backup of my computers at least once a month. I do the backup to an external drive. The software is free for home use and works great. If my system fails, I can use the bootable CD created when I installed EaseUS to boot and bring my computer right back to where it was when I created the image. Then using Mozy I can sign in and restore those files I had let it backup daily and be right back to where I left off in a very short time.

Tweeting Long Messages

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:49:00 +0000

If you have a Twitter account you know there is a limit to the number of words you can tweet. To get around that limitation I use TwitLonger.com. I open up TwitLonger and type or paste my message. When I click the Post button, my message is saved with link to view the entire message, no matter how long it is.

The account is free and it works great. Give it a try!

Check out my tweets and follow me at https://twitter.com/RichardEvans32

Remove the blue line when forwarding an email in Yahoo

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:13:00 +0000

That darn blue line when forwarding an email in Yahoo has been bothering me for a while and I found the answer to removing it:

Click to forward the email.
Then select all of the message.
On the email toolbar locate the indent buttons.
Click the left indent until the line goes away.

So easy and yet so hard to find the solution. This may work in other email, give it a try. Works great in Yahoo!

Printing the Screen

noreply@blogger.com (Dick Evans) — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:14:00 +0000

By Dick Evans, www.rwevans.com

When someone has a problem on their computer like some weird message appearing on the screen, I will ask them to describe it. Hardly ever works! Sending me a printout of the screen with the error message on it is much easier to understand. But how does one do that?

Years ago, back in the DOS days before we had Windows, we would print the contents of the screen by having printer hooked up and ready to go and then press the PrintScreen or PrtScr or PrtSc key usually located in the top right of the keyboard and perhaps the UPPER case of the SysReq key. Press the key and instantly the words on the screen would print away on the old dot matrix, impact printer.

The key is still there, but it does not send the contents directly to the printer. And it now sends all of the screen contents, words, images, and colors. Where does it go you ask? Press Shift+ PrtScr key and whatever is displayed on the screen is sent to the Windows clipboard. Alternatively, use Shift+Alt+PrtScr and only the contents of the Window having focused is sent.

You cannot see the contents of the clipboard. Have faith that what you sent is really there. To turn it into an image file that can be sent to someone else by email, Open the Windows paint program (Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint) and Ctrl+V to paste the clipboard content.

Ctrl+S to save the image as a file. Place it in a location where you will be able to easily locate it, give it a name, and change the Type to JPG. Now you have a screen print or a picture of the screen containing the weird message to email to your PC Guru to analyze.