Author: Jeff D

My last post had me grumbling about it not being easy to find the Admin tools, which used to be accessed either by right-clicking on the start button or from within control panel or of course geeking out totally and entering the relevant *.msc into the run box. OK. #eggonface time 🙁 Actually @Microsoft haven’t …

Last night (11/ July) was true geeky fun 🙂 I got an update for my Lumia 735 to take it to 15063.483 and that went well, no problems to report. It’s a pity that Insider builds are no longer available for this brilliant device and I’ve had to go on the “Release Preview” to get …

My neighbour caught my attention a few days ago and said he was having problems with his PC. Basically Malwarebytes (Premium) was stopping a few naughties but they kept coming back! I was a bit too busy to do anything so I suggested he got Windows Defender to do an “off-line” scan (This reboots the …

What can I say other than I’m a bit of a Pill*ck! I’m a firm advocate of backing up your data and creating disk image backups, with Windows and Macrium reflect its easy as pie. Windows 10 will backup up your stuff anyway, so there’s no excuse. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be as easy …

Just added a couple of new pages under “reality”, my thoughts on housing, housing problems, poverty and homelessness. housing-problems-in-the-uk & housing-vision-2016

Been an interesting few days! I have a little project that would seem to benefit from having a database instead of just a spreadsheet but it’s a few years (15+) since I’ve played with databases. The last one I used with any confidence was on the Atari 520ST and this was a fully relational DB …

What is Robocopy? No it isn’t anything to do with RoboCop 🙂 Robocopy a.k.a. Robustcopy, is a free application that is built-in to Windows, if it isn’t already installed you can just download it from Microsoft. As the name suggests, it’s a “utility” that lets you copy/backup files on your Windows PC. I’ve used it …

I’m a big fan of Sourceforge and their open-source software. They have recently released an “Internet Speedtest” so I thought I’d give it a go. You can can do the same by going to Sourceforge and running it from your browser. I decided to compare it to my favourite Speedtest by Ookla, again you can …

If you still haven’t done the FREE upgrade to Windows 10, why? Until July it’s a FREE upgrade from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, after July if you want 10 you’ll have to pay for the upgrade, just do it 🙂 Scared you might not like it? If you’re on Windows 7, you’ll love 10. If …

Backing up your data / PC is so easy these days so why aren’t you doing it? 🙂 The tools you need to backup your PC are already included in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. All you need to do is activate the built-in backup tools and this only entails telling Windows where to …