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If you installed Cloudflare and Outlook stopped working, you are not alone. I had the same problem with Outlook breaking sending emails after I installed Cloudflare. There are a ton of threads out there about this, but so many of them go nowhere that I decided to write about the solution to fix Outlook after … Read more
When Windows updated my computer to Windows 11, I just let it work. When I came back, I needed to work, so I blindly charged ahead, finding Explorer and the Start menu, and kind of ignored everything else. Turns out my icons are there on the bottom and I can do the old Pin to … Read more
Several years ago I bought a netbook. At the time, there was no iPad, there most certainly was no such thing as a Chromebook. There may have been the first iPhone, although I do not recall for certain. I liked my netbook. It was underpowered compared to other computers around, and certainly compared to other … Read more
The any-big-business-is-a-monopoly-and-that’s-bad-mmm-kay groups have been sharpening their knives recently and salivating over the thought of taking on Google in court. There’s just one little problem. Today, Hitwise reported that Microsoft’s Bing search engine accounted for 30 percent of search in March 2011. Granted, in order to get that number, you have to add up the … Read more
If you use Microsoft Security Essentials as your anti-virus tool, you may have started feeling uncomfortable after a recent update to MSE changed the background color from blue to gray. Apparently, according the unmoderated Microsoft Answers website, there is a new color scheme for Microsoft Security Essentials and the new gray color is not an … Read more
Update: Looks like Live Sync is working again and live.sync.com is up and running. However, there is a new bummer. Looks like a new version of Live Sync is coming. It is currently in beta. However, it looks like the new beta version of Live Sync will not support Windows XP. That wouldn’t be so … Read more
I was going to just leave Internet Explorer alone. Everyone knows that it is the bottom of the pile when it comes to browsers. The only people who use IE are those who are either not computer savvy enough to know that there are options and how to get them, and those who do know … Read more
When installing a new theme, you probably look at the pretty background images, the colors, and maybe how it does or does not support Aero. But, don’t forget that different themes can also come with different sounds. After weeks of being annoyed by a banjo sound as my windows default beep, I finally went into … Read more
Mark Twain once said that there were lies, damn lies, and statistics. The more you know about math, the more you understand that what he meant was that one can lie with statistics, NOT that all statistics are lies. The trouble with statistics is two-fold. Number one, far too many Americans are math illiterate. High … Read more
There have been many bugs, issues, and design flaws in Microsoft Windows over the years. Many of them have been chased out of the operating system. Others did not exist in earlier versions only to pop up later, typically as a new "feature" that nobody wanted. However, the most annoying Windows flaw still exists in … Read more
Yet another software company, this time Microsoft, decides that they can just install whatever products and services they want, no matter how unrelated, on my computer because I happen to want ONE product of theirs.
Microsoft is doing a series of full-day launch events to spotlight the rollout of several new versions of products for 2010. Of particular interest to this author is the upcoming Office 2010 Release Launch Event in Denver next week. Technically, it is a SharePoint 2010 Launch Even and an Office 2010 Launch Event, but I’m … Read more