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I 070 – Identifying Safe WebsitesThere are billions upon billions of web pages out there. The vast majority are safe and trustworthy, but a small percentage are dangerous, aiming to infect your PC with malicious software (‘malware’). Needless to say, even a small percentage of those billions adds up to a huge number, and you might easily stumble upon one …

Category: Internet & Security
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10, 11
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K 168 – Keyboard ExplainedComputer keyboards are puzzling things. Like a typewriter, they contain all the keys we need for typing text, numbers and punctuation, but where a typewriter keyboard stops, the computer keyboard just keeps going, giving us a total of 105 keys. Are they really all necessary, and if they are, what on earth could they all …

Category: Hardware
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10, 11
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NT 424 – News and TipsHere you’ll find all of the news and tips from Issue 4, April 2024 …

Category: Tips & News
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10, 11
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P 650 – Printer Trouble: Take Back Control in SettingsAs long as there’s a printer connected to your PC, printing is easy: you just click a Print button and the rest happens automatically. It’s so easy, in fact, that you may never question whether it can be improved! You may be wasting money by printing everything in high quality, or using expensive colour ink …

Category: Diagnosis & Repair, Hardware, Troubleshooting
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10
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QA 424 – Questions and AnswersHere you’ll find all of the questions and answers from Issue 4, April 2024 …

Category: Questions and Answers
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10, 11
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T 210 – The Importance of Windows Product Keys!You need to reinstall Windows on your computer but what about the product key you have to enter in order to ‘activate’ Windows? It should be on a sticker somewhere on your PC’s casing. The trouble is, that sticker may have become scratched, or torn off, or worn away, or suffered some other mishap that …

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Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10
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U 390 – Undelivered Email SolutionsPerhaps a relative asks you why she hasn’t received an invitation to your birthday party when everyone else has, or perhaps you’re concerned that you still haven’t received a confirmation of your holiday booking. It’s a fact of life that email messages don’t always behave as expected! In this article, I’ll explain why and how …

Category: Multimedia, Troubleshooting
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10, 11
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