Sandy is planning to give her grandson his first computer. She asked for advice on making sure that an adult maintains control. We live in a digital society, and our children need to become part of it. These days, it’s almost impossible to do homework without a word processor and an Internet connection. On the …
Windows Explorer displayed .pdf files as preview thumbnails on Zill Niazi’s old Windows 7 laptop. But on a new laptop, also running Windows 7, it displays them only as icons. Can this be fixed? I’m going to guess that your older computer–the one that previewed .pdfs–ran the 32-bit version of Windows 7, and that your new …
When it comes to Windows, there is nothing I love more than Microsoft’s infamous Ribbon interface—and nothing I hate more. Using it in Microsoft Office is great, but adding Ribbon to Windows 8’s file explorer was a bit much for me. So I decided to pare File Explorer down a little and put the features …