Category: General computer
General computer
Windows Command Prompt basics
Windows Command Prompt basics: CD, DIR, and Wildcards (like the old green screen days). I grew up with massive CRT monitors and glowing green letters on black screens. Typing DIR and watching files scroll by felt like magic. Today, the Windows Command Prompt (CMD) looks different, black background, white text, but the core commands are…
Read MoreWindows 11 App Permissions
The insane list Microsoft hides (and how to lock it down) Windows 11 has a massive section called App permissions buried in Settings > Privacy & security. It controls what apps can access on your PC, camera, microphone, location, files, contacts, and many more. The list is long. Really long. And many of these permissions…
Read MoreWindows 11 Telemetry
The Hidden Windows 11 Privacy setting that stops 90% of Telemetry. Google gets a lot of flak for tracking everything you do, and rightly so. But many people don’t realize that Windows 11 also sends a huge amount of diagnostic and telemetry data back to Microsoft by default. The good news? Microsoft actually gives you…
Read MoreStart Menu full of ads?
Imagine this: you’re in the middle of a high-stakes trading session at a bank. The clock’s ticking, your screen is a sea of spreadsheets and market feeds, and you hit the Windows key for a quick app launch. Boom, your Start Menu is full of ads . It’s a digital flea market: prompts for Microsoft…
Read MoreWindows 11 Task Manager trick
Banks use this Windows 11 Task Manager trick to find viruses manually. I work at an investment bank, part-time at the IT helpdesk. Most people rely solely on antivirus software and think they’re fully protected. In reality? Antivirus misses things, especially sneaky, low-profile threats that don’t trigger alerts. At the investment bank where I work,…
Read MoreUpgrade HDD to SSD
If your laptop feels like it’s stuck in the stone age, slow boots, endless loading wheels, apps crawling, there’s a simple fix that feels like magic, upgrade the old hard disk drive (HDD) for a solid-state drive (SSD). It’s one of the best performance upgrades you can do, especially on older machines. Boot times drop…
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