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A comment from Thelma
Thank a
lot to TC for setting up Thunderbird
for me yesterday (a day early). I am
having a tootle around it and getting used to setting up filters etc. - and I
can use stationery. It's so amazing to see him taking over my PC and saying
please don't use your mouse while I'm working - I wouldn't dare. Thanks
again, I've said this before but you two are the best.
A comment
from Kristine
I have used Cloudeight Direct Computer Care
services twice now (I have a laptop and a desktop). Each time I have gotten
professional service from both Darcy and TC. They solved all of my problems,
and they even gave me some tips to help me keep my computer running well..
If you've never used Cloudeight Direct Care, it's the best deal going... the
price is amazingly low and the service is just plain amazing. They get a
grade of A+ from this former high school teacher.
A comment from Linda
Dear Darcy, Want to Thank You so much for
Setting up My Thunderbird E-Mail. When You said Give Me 10 Min. I didn't
Realize that's about How Long it will Take For You to do the Work. Such a
Great Job, considering I forgot My Password at the Last Minute. Absolutely
will Call on you Both Again if I need anything Done. Thanks Again Darcy!
Linda F.
A comment from Ann
Just want to thank TC
for setting up Thunderbird email for me. There were a few glitches, which
were my fault, not his, but it was finally all set up and working. I'm still
getting used to it, and like it so far. Thank you again TC...you do good
work. Ann
A comment from Brian
Darcy did my Thunderbird installation for me. She was fast, courteous and
thorough. I am so happy to have a great email program that won't break every
time Windows 10 updates - which seems to be every couple of weeks these
days. Thank you Darcy & Cloudeight for offering the
Thunderbird service.
A comment from Shari
Microsoft has announced that as of January 2017, they are no
longer updating or supporting Windows Live. Microsoft addresses no
longer work in Windows Live, and many ISP that use new secure
servers, or have plans to, will soon stop working with Windows Live
Mail. And Windows
Mail on Windows 10 is a problem because every time Windows 10 has a
major update, Windows Mail has to be reset. Plus, the Mail App
included with Windows 10 is very basic and few people find it useful We
are now scheduling Thunderbird Set-up sessions. Get email that works
the way you want it to -- get your
Cloudeight Direct Thunderbird Email Set-up Service key right now
and put an end to the Windows 10 email merry-go-round. GET
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Simple Little Windows 10 Tips Peek at Your Desktop Did you know if you click the far right edge (to
the right of the clock) you will go to your desktop. Indeed. Now how would
you like to peek at your desktop just by hovering over the far right edge of
your taskbar. Well, it’s simple to do. Right-click an empty area of your taskbar and choose “Properties”. Lo!
Taskbar and Start Menu Properties appears. Now look near the middle of that
dialog and you’ll see “Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your
mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar”. Check the box
next to it. Once you do, you can peek at the desktop without actually going
to the desktop. If you want to go to the desktop, you can click the Show
desktop button at the very far right edge of your taskbar. Hint: You can get
back to the desktop by pressing the Windows key and tapping the D key too.
Don’t forget to press “Apply” “OK” to save your settings. Upside Down Taskbar How many of you remember Windows 98? Windows 95? How many of you remember
accidentally dragging your taskbar to the right or left or top of your
desktop. I started with Windows 95 (Darcy started with Windows 3.1). I can
remember feeling lost when my taskbar ended up at the top of my desktop – it
was upside down to me. Well, it wasn’t really… But you know Darcy and I work
on a lot of computer and there are some folks who like their taskbar at the
top or at the right or left edge of their desktop. It still confuses me
but once I settle down, I get used to it. If you’re brave, crazy, just want to be different, or want to try out the
taskbar at the top or at the right or left edges, it’s easy to do – no more
trying to grab the taskbar with the mouse and dragging it around – man, I
used to hate that! Anyway, in case you didn’t know this, right-click on an empty space on
your taskbar and click “Properties”. In the dialog that appears, look next to “Taskbar location on screen”.
Using the down arrow at the right of the selection box you can choose where
your taskbar appears on your screen – at the bottom, to the left side, to
the right side, or at the top.
Don’t forget to click “Apply/OK” to save you settings. This is sure a lot
easier than dragging your taskbar around you desktop by accident. Plus, you
may actually enjoy an upside down taskbar or a conservative desktop or a
liberal one. I will let you figure that out. As for me, I’ll leave my taskbar right where it is — at the bottom. I’m
old and set in my ways. I’m a centrist
How about some of that upside down cake, EB? Got any left, or did you and
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Emsisoft too. Saving
Mail from Windows Mail to Thunderbird a. Make a folder on your desktop called Saved Mail. Now open Windows Mail
and choose File, Export Messages. b. Now choose Microsoft Windows Mail from list and choose next. c. Browse to the folder you created - we named it Saved Mail on our
desktop d. Select Folder you want to export, or choose All. e. Create a folder under Local Folders (important to do it here) and name
it Saved Mail f: Click Tools, ImportExport Tools, then choose Import all messages from
a directory, then choose Also from its subdirectories, click Ok and you are
done. If you have a lot of folders and mail, it will take a lot longer, so
don't interrupt the import! See below for a step by step picture tutorial. Alternatively, you
can create a folder on your desktop called Saved Mails, and drag and drop
mail from your Windows Mail program to this folder. Then, Open Thunderbird,
Create a Folder under Local Folders called Saved Mail, and drag the emls
directly into the folder from your desktop folder. Screenshot #1: Make a folder on your desktop called Saved Mail. Now open
Windows Mail and choose File, Export Messages. >
Screenshot #2: Now choose Microsoft Windows Mail from list and click
Next.
Screenshot #3: Browse to the folder you created - we named it Saved
Mail on our desktop
Screenshot #4: Select Folder you want to export, or choose All.
Screenshot #5: Now Open Thunderbird, Create a folder under Local Folders
(important to do it here) and name it Saved Mail
Screenshot #6: Click Tools, ImportExport Tools, then choose Import all
messages from a directory, then choose Also from its subdirectories, click
Ok and you are done. If you have a lot of folders and mail, it will take a
lot longer, so don't interrupt the import!
To see this tutorial online (with larger
screenshots ) as well as all our
other Thunderbird tips & tricks, visit this page. If you don't have Thunderbird installed yet and
you'd like us to set it up for you,
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Why Is System & Compressed
Memory Hogging All My RAM? If you've ever opened Task
Manager and looked under the Processes tab, you may have noticed something
called "System and compressed memory" taking up 30% of your available RAM. If you
see this, don't worry about it - it's Microsoft's new way of making Windows
faster. There's a long technical explanation if you're interested in paging files
and memory management (if you are, you can read
more about it here). Basically, what Windows 10 does is
compress old pages of memory so they take up less
space. So let's say you have a program running that's been open for a while,
but that you haven't used, Windows 10 compresses it and makes it smaller
rather than dumping on your hard drive in a paging file. RAM is much faster
than your hard drive and therefore is much faster than using the paging file
- this helps make Windows 10 run faster. All kind of technical
geek-speak, but we wanted to give you a brief overview so you won't worry if
you open Task Manager and see something like this going on:
The more you know, the less you have to worry? Not
always, but in the case of PCs, it's most often true. October Rain
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Dear
Darcy - I have never written to Cloudeight before with respect to your
flawless remote repair but today seems to be an exception. Though we had an
appointment scheduled, you contacted me to see if I wanted to start a little
early. A little early indeed! You spent, I think, at least 2 hours, possibly
more (guilt shielded my vision a bit) on simply installing Thunderbird on my
two computers. To begin with, I probably have the slowest system known to
man, and secondly, for reasons unknown, it refused to accept my email
password on the laptop, which took an inordinately long time to solve. You
also took the time to fix another problem not connected with this
installation, and now, after I sit down and figure out how to "make this my
own", I am good to go, now that I'm out from under "that other email" which
shall remain nameless. I have emailed everyone I know telling them that (a)
I have a new - and wonderful - email provider, and (b) once again I
expounded upon your remote repair opportunity which I have made use of more
times than either of us can count. I truly hope you last forever, and I am
EAGERLY awaiting your new stationery. The samples look scrumptious and I
can't wait to use them. Thank you again, with all my heart, and save a
little of that thanks for TC if you will. Sincerely, Shari C.
Thanks to Thelma, Kristine, Linda, Ann, Brian, Shari and all of you who wrote
to us during the past week about the computer services
you received from
Cloudeight Direct
Computer Care. We are so glad we've been able to help so
many people from all over the world
If you need computer service we hope
you'll let us help you.
TC & EB
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a great alternative for those of you who
have been using Windows Live Mail or Windows Mail on Windows 10 and
who don't want to use the limited Windows 10 Mail App. Thunderbird
is compatible with all email accounts, including all Microsoft
accounts, Windows 10 updates don't affect it, and has the familiar
look of Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail. However it's very
different as far as setting it up and configuring it.
So we're
offering Cloudeight Thunderbird Email set-up service.
Our new Thunderbird Email set-up service includes
installing and setting up Thunderbird to look and work as much like
Windows Live Mail / Windows Mail as possible. We'll configure up to
3 email accounts for you and set them up as IMAP so that all your
mail messages and folders on your mail server(s) are included in
your Thunderbird Email program too! Plus, we'll give you a list of
tips & tricks to help you get the most out of Thunderbird Email
program.
Walter wants
to know about Secunia PSI and Norton
I presently use Secunia
3 PSI to keep me apprised of program updates, and Norton Internet Security to
protect my computer from viruses and other security problems. I have used both
products for many years and have never had any problems.
I recently read an article
from another well respected computer authority (Fred Langa) that stated that
Secunia and Norton NIS have not been diligent in providing necessary updates and
are now considered useless. I am sure you are familiar with both products and
would be interested in your thoughts on them. Respectfully, Walter
Our answer
Hi Walter. We
have been saying basically the same thing for many years. Secunia PSI claims to
keep all your software updated, but most modern browsers already update
automatically, and browsers are certainly the point of attack for most malware
and mischief. Secunia uses a lot of resources but, in our opinion, provides no real benefit. We
have said several times before, that in our opininon, Secunia is useless.
We can also tell you we have seen many using Norton whose
computers were bogged down with a lot of malware, PUPs and hijackers. We do
independent testing and evaluation and the only security software that we found
that protects against almost all malware, hijackers, PUPs, etc. is Emsisoft. As
far as viruses are concerned there are very few true viruses around these days,
and you're not likely to ever encounter one -- but Emsisoft protects against
them too.
Susan needs to back up her Firefox bookmarks
I need to
back up my Firefox bookmarks so when I get another new laptop but I can't seem
to find them. I searched your forum and couldn't find what I needed. Thanks
for your help. Thanks, Susan
Our answer
1. Make sure your
Firefox
Menu Bar is visible (see below)
2. Next click "Bookmarks" on the Firefox toolbar and choose "Show All
Bookmarks".
3. When you click "Show All Bookmarks" you'll see a toolbar at the top
and one of the choices is "Import and Backup" (see below). Click on "Import
and Backup" and then click on "Export Bookmarks to HTML" (HTML is just a
fancy name for a web page.)
When you click "Export Bookmarks to HTML" Windows Explorer (File Explorer)
will open. Choose the location where you want to save your exported
bookmarks and give it a name that you will recognize when you want to import
your Firefox bookmarks back into Firefox on your new computer. A good place to save this HTML file would be on a USB flash drive or external hard drive.
Now when you get your new laptop, follow all the steps above, except this
time, instead of exporting your bookmarks, you'll want to import them. When
you click on "Show All Bookmarks" and click on "Import and Backup", click
"Import Bookmarks from HTML"...then browse to the HTML file you exported
above.
All the Firefox bookmarks you had on your previous computer will be available on Firefox on your new laptop.
Mae wants to know if she should install this
PDF converter
A popup offered a converter PDF to Word
from "@devunity, 2016" (also it offered to check for window 10 driver
update)I'm careful following your advise. Copied-"PDF to Word converter
App gives you a tool that easily converts your PDF files to word and now the
word to pdf. Soon we will have major improvements in the app to better use
google chrome and its derivatives, If you consider this useful app sort it 5
stars. This will help us continue to keep it free and having a good number of
users. Thanks!"
Our answer
Hi Mae. We wouldn't trust something
that just popped up out of nowhere. There are so many online PDF to Word converters available online, why
bother installing one? The online converters are fast, free, and work great.
Here are a couple of safe online PDF to Word converters.
http://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-Word/
Zamzar has been
around a long time. This is a good free converter and although they try to
sell you speedier service, if you're in no big hurry it works great. You
upload your PDF file by clicking a button. They convert it to Word (Docx)
and send you an email with a link to download your Word document. The whole
process took us about 3 minutes to convert a 3.2 MB PDF file and download
the Word Document format. But this site has no tricky minefield of ads to
navigate and the interface is logical and easy-to-use.
http://pdf2doc.com/
Be very wary of the ads on the page - especially the big green download
buttons. You'll have to tippy toe through a maze of ads, but if you're
careful, the service is fast. You can choose from *.doc and/or *.docx with
*.docx being the newer Word doc format.
And if you
have MS Word on your computer you can open a PDF file with it and convert it
to Word format. Word does give you a warning that if the PDF file contains
"lots of images" it may not look exactly like the PDF file.
Hope this helps you, Mae.
Allen fell for the Speed-Fix scam
I am sorry to admit i fell
for this( speed fix tool plus ) yesterday paid them $50 using my Credit
Card ( i know i did everything wrong ) they said they would clean out my
computer for an extra $90, my concern now is can these people be trusted not
to use my credit card any time it suits them, i am thinking about going to
the bank to get them to change my card details.
Our answer
Hi Allen. We're sorry to hear this. Almost every week, we have someone ask us
about miracle computer fixes like Speed-Fix and TurboBooster and
Fix-it-Stick. There are no miracle one-two-three clicks-and-your-computer-is-fixed programs.
We understand that many people want to believe that there are miracle cures,
but sadly, there isn't. These scammers are not stupid - they know that
people want to believe that there are easy fixes for complex problems.
Call your credit card company and tell them you want your money back – tell
them you were scammed. They will reverse the charge for you. We don’t know
if you need to change your credit card number and info – that’s quite a lot
of work – ask your credit card company what you should do. Maybe you could
have them set up email or text alerts so you received an email or text any
time your card is used. Right now, the first thing you
should do is get your money back.
Call your credit card company and explain what happened.
Read more about Fix-it-Stick, Speed Fix and other scams here.
Jason wants a safe YouTube downloader
Is there a safe
but free video downloader for You Tube? I had one some time ago but don't
remember what it was.
Our answer
Hi
Jason. See if this works for you Jason:
http://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/new/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-installing-any-software/
//Jason wrote back//
The SS worked perfectly. Thank
you.... Jason M.
The Holidays Are Coming. And It Begins With the Season of Tricks
All computer users
The Holidays are just around the corner – and it’s
time to publish our yearly reminder to be extra careful during the Holiday
season – which really has already begun. Yes already those “You’ve got a
Halloween greeting” messages are starting to appear in your email inbox.
Keep this in mind: it’s only going to get worse.
We’ve been looking
into our crystal ball and what we see ain’t pretty! We can see millions of
innocent computers and baffled PC owners being bombarded with thousands of
ecards beginning with Halloween and reaching a crescendo on the night before
Christmas.
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through my
computer,
The e-cards were coming, I should be astuter –
‘Cos I
clicked on a link and my computer was fried,
I banged on they keyboard
and to no one I cried:
“My computer’s infected with malware and spam,
So I’m fixing my computer while my family eats ham!”
Anyway, the
holiday season is almost upon us and you’re bound to see some of the
following in your inbox this year:
“Your friend has sent you a
Halloween ecard”
“Your cousin loves you and sent you this Halloween
greeting”
“Your brother sent you this Thanksgiving ecard”
“Your classmate sends you Christmas greetings”
“Your secret admirer
sent you a Christmas greeting!”
“Your co-worker wishes you Happy
Holidays”
“You have received a musical Christmas e-card”
“——-
(name of bank) requests you update your account security”
“Important
message from ———- (name of bank): Your account may have been breeched”
From now through the first of the year, you and everyone else is going
to be bombarded with spam which appear to be from friends and admirers –
some appearing to have been sent from legitimate ecard/e-greeting sites.
Scammers will be busy trying to steal your personal information. They’ll
send you emails that appear to be from banks or other financial institutions
– asking you to “update your account” or that your account may have been
breeched – or some other fable. This time of the year is prime time for
criminals, miscreants, and other misanthropes.
The subject lines of
these kinds of emails will be telling you that you’ve got a wonderful
greeting of some sort from some unnamed family member or friend. Or they may
appear as legitimate emails from your bank or credit card company. Beware!
These emails will contain links that may infect your computer with something
when clicked. And the something may be a Trojan, a virus, adware, spyware,
or other malicious junk you can bet your chestnuts you won’t want. Or they
may contain links that lead to a site that is a mirror images of your credit
card’s site, or your bank’s site. Whatever kinds of emails you receive like
this, you need to make sure your brain is functioning – and you need to stop
and think before you click.
So, here we ago again, appealing to you
to use your common sense. Because going through the holidays with a Ho! Ho!
Ho! devil-may-care attitude, could have you working on your PC during your
family’s Christmas dinner. While you’re busy formatting your computer,
reinstalling Windows. Or worse – calling credit card companies telling them
your identity has been stolen – and your credit cards have been used to buy
Mercedes cars, big-screen TVs and the like, none of which were purchased by
you. Use your common sense – and keep your brain engaged when on the Web –
especially this time of year. If you do, you’ll be sitting down with your
loved ones eating Christmas dinner instead of talking to strangers on the
phone untangling the financial mess you’re in because your identity was
ripped-off.
Many of these emails will contain links which lead
directly to a download of some kind of malware. Some will contain links that
will ask you for personal information. Your first line of defense is not
your anti-spyware, firewall, or anti-virus. In fact, it isn’t any kind of
software at all. Your first line of defense is YOU. Think before you click.
A legitimate ecard will almost always contain the name of the sender…not “a
friend”, “an uncle”, “a business partner” or a “secret admirer”. That’s your
first clue. Would your uncle sign his name “uncle”. If uncle Joe sent you a
ecard, wouldn’t he sign it “Uncle Joe” not “uncle”. The subject line say
“You’ve got an ecard from your uncle” not “You’ve got an ecard from Uncle
Joe” – see?
If you’re not sure, copy the link by right-clicking it
and choosing “copy shortcut” and paste it in a blank email or better yet,
into notepad. See what it says. If you come up with something like http://
71.316.419.284 DO NOT CLICK IT! It’s almost certainly something you don’t
want. Anyone can forge a link – see? http://thundercloud.net/ – click it and
see where you end up? (Don’t worry we wouldn’t send you to someplace
dangerous!) If you’re very astute, you hovered over that link and saw where
the link goes. You would have also seen if the site name was disguised as a
numerical IP address. Hovering is good!
Banks, financial
institutions, and/or credit card companies NEVER ask you to change your
password, update your information, or ask for any kind of personal
information by email. If you receive an email that appears to be from your
bank or credit card company and you suspect it may be legitimate, don’t
click any links in it. If you want to find out if something needs to be
changed on your account, or something needs to be updated, type in URL of
the Web site of the bank or credit card company that you use and login
securely. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER click links in these kinds of emails.
More than anything, you’re going to see tons of e-cards this time of year –
and lots of them will be sent by the millions by spammers, scammers, and
criminals. So, be a cynic. Be a skeptic. We all can’t be TC. No one would
ever send him an e-card; nobody likes him. He knows any e-cards that he
receives have to be scams, worms, Trojans or something else suspicious.
People probably like you and people might even like you as much as EB who
gets inundated with e-cards from admirers, friends, well-wishers and fawning
minions. You might get real e-cards from real people that like you. If
people like you then you have to be extra careful because you might actually
get a few dozen e-cards from real people. The avalanche of ecard spoofing is
coming to your email program soon. Of that you can be certain. So be safe –
don’t be sorry. THINK before you CLICK.
Make sure you update your
anti-virus program several times a week. WHAT? You still don’t have one? Get
one! Right now. Don’t read another word. We recommend AVAST and it’s free
for home and personal use. You can get it here…come on…do it right now
before you forget!
Also, make sure you have good security software
installed. We recommend
Emsisoft because it protects you from the widest spectrum of malware,
viruses, PUPs, hijackers and ransomware.
Summary:
Your
First line of defense? YOU! Use your own good common sense and good judgment
Your second line of defense? Good security software
Forewarned is forearmed: The holiday ecard pandemic is right around the
corner. So, remember this warning. You know now much we love to say: “We
told you so!”
And speaking of the Holiday Season & Halloween - did
you know EB's second car is a broom?
A Windows 10 Quiz For You
Windows 10
All right all you Windows 10 users, we have
a test for you:
1. What is the fastest way to open Control Panel?
2. What is the fastest way to open Device Manager?
3. What is the
fastest way to open a command prompt with administrator privileges?
4. What is the fastest way to open Computer Management? Disk Management?
5. What is the fastest way to open Power Options?
Do you want to
know the answers?
Here they are:
You can access all of these features and more, just by right-clicking on the
Windows 10 start button and clicking the item you want. Those of you with
Windows 10 Redstone (Anniversary Edition) will see a slightly different
menu.
Windows 10
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compressing and decompressing memory takes up a lot more CPU cycles. But,
according to Microsoft, the performance cost is much lower than it would be
Windows had to continually to retrieve data from the hard drive. Simply put:
It’s faster to bring back open programs that are open but that you haven't
used for a while, out of memory than it is to load them from the hard
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It's not supposed to be this way. The
rain I mean. The sullen, gray skies belong in November, not now, not here, not
in October. The October rain is cold and steady. The day is morose and dark. Not
a sad day but a melancholy mood could set in if I were not careful. The October
rain comes too early; the world outside seems out-of-step and incongruent with
the world inside --- my mind.
I think we could all let the little things
carry us off to dark corners where we don't like to be. I am sure we all do it
although few of us, I think, do it intentionally. I hear the rhythm of rain
pounding on the window from which I've observed many sunny, unseasonably warm,
October days recently. But the seasons, like life, are a balance of good and
bad, happy and sad, pleasure and pain, and beginnings and endings. No season
goes gently into its good night. No person should go gently into that good
night. I will not, I hope.
The rain feels tiny sabers of ice as it stabs
at my summer-acclimated skin. I'm not, ready for this. Not ready for the
pounding November gales and chilling rain that cuts my skin and slices down into
my bones. I'm not ready. But, in the grand scheme of seasons, and life, what
will come will come. Although sometimes I won't be ready for what tomorrow
brings, it has always been this way. The older I get the more aware of this I
become.
Summer has come and gone but it did not go gentle into that good
night...
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