There's a video on YouTube that has been getting a lot of attention lately.  A few of my clients have sent me the link to watch it, because it seems to fit right in line with the kinds of topics I cover here in this blog and on my podcast; specifically,

It's kind of funny how we've been trained by our computers to do things in a way that don't always make a lot of sense.  If you want to turn off your TV, you hit the power button.  If you want to turn off your car radio, you hit the power button.  Just

Today's tip is pretty specific.  You may never need to use it.  I personally went a long time without needing to know how to change a drive letter in my Windows computer.  But when the situation came up that required this to happen, it was very nice to

Last Monday I wrote about Malwarebytes, and the fact that you should definitely have it on your computer.  The time-sensitive information was that they are switching from a one-time payment (lifetime license) to an annual subscription payment plan.  But

I have been using and recommending Malwarebytes (the paid version) for many years now.  It's a great tool, and provides a good level of security in addition to your antivirus program.  Malwarebytes recently announced that their business model is changi.

Over the past few weeks, I have had several clients get tricked by scammers.  This resulted in malware or even some nasty viruses being installed on their computers.  It's often hard to track back to exactly what happened that caused the problem, but in

Sometimes you might be in a situation where you need to give your computer a quick boost of RAM (memory) in order for it to be able to handle an extra load.  Maybe you're working on an older computer, and you have Word, Chrome, Photoshop and maybe a few

Not long ago, I posted about how Windows XP was going to be dangerous to use after April 8, 2014 because Microsoft was ending support for it.  So any new security holes that were discovered would not be patched up after that date.  Recently Microsoft an