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Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #899 Volume 18 Number 10 December 31, 2020 Dear Friends, Welcome to Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #899. Thank you very much for subscribing and for being a part of our Cloudeight family. We appreciate your friendship and support very much! Please share our newsletters and our Website with your family and all your friends. We're sending this issue to you on Thursday this week due to the holiday on Friday. Happy New Year! The new year is just hours away; it's both an ending and a beginning. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. This year has been a trying one - it's a year like none of us have ever experienced and one which none of us ever want to have to endure again. But we made it through this crazy year, and we are looking forward to a brand-new year with the highest hopes that it will be much better for all of us than 2020 was. So here we are at the end of the year. This is the last issue of InfoAve Weekly for 2020 This week's InfoAve Weekly newsletter is a review edition. Publishing review editions on major holidays, gives us the opportunity to take time off to share with our families. Plus, it's a great way for us to feature and review some of the best content from previous issues of InfoAve Weekly. Next week, we begin a new year of Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly and we'll start off the new year with a brand spankin' new edition of InfoAve Weekly! It's been our pleasure to have you in our Cloudeight family this year. We are thankful for you and for the help and support you always give us. We are very fortunate to have you with us and we look forward to your friendship and support in the new year. We hope that you will also take some time off during the Holidays and find time to make memories with those you love. Thanks so much for all you do for us. We wish you all a very happy and healthy new year! May all your dreams come true! Our newest Cloudeight Endorsed Email Program - Very Similar to Windows Mail & Outlook Express. Stationery works great! Read more about OE Classic here!
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Mary wants to run file defrag on Windows 10 However, if you want to defragment your hard drive, you can do it manually this way: 1. Type Defrag in taskbar search/p> 2. Press Enter 3. Select the drive you want to defragment 4. Click" Optimize" to defragment the drive. If you just want to check to see how fragmented the drive is, click the "Analyze". & You'll most likely find that your Windows drive (usually C:\) most
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on Your Desktop and/or Taskbar There are several ways to restart Windows 10, but all of them involve at least 2 clicks or typing a command. Today, we're going to show you how to make a shortcut to restart your computer that you can put on your desktop or taskbar or both. And it's easy to do: 1. Right-click on an empty spot on your desktop and choose "New" ---> "Shortcut" from the right-click menu 2.When the Create Shortcut dialog appears, type the following in the box under "Type the location of the item": Type SHUTDOWN /R (Make sure you leave a space after SHUTDOWN.) 3. Click Next 4. Give your new shortcut a name in next dialog. We suggest something boring like "Restart My PC" or "Restart" - don't be too creative or a month from now you might forget what it is.
5. Click Finish and your new shortcut will appear on your desktop.
As you can see, above, the icon for "Restart..." is just a default icon assigned by Windows. You can leave it like that if you want or choose a different icon. To choose a different icon, right-click on the shortcut and click "Properties".
In "Properties" click "Change Icon"
When you click "Change Icon" you may see the following - if you do, no problem, just click OK.
When the Change Icon dialog appears, you'll see a lot of standard Windows icons. You can scroll through them (the scroll bar is at the bottom). For this tutorial we picked the red icon that kind of reminded us of an off/on switch. You can use whichever icon you like.
We select the red icon and click OK. The following appears. Click "Apply" and "OK" to set the Icon for your new shortcut.
You can see below the icon is now on the desktop. We put the icon on our taskbar by right-clicking the desktop icon and choosing "Pin to taskbar" from the right-click menu. As you can see, we have a Restart My PC icon on both the desktop and the taskbar.
We could also add it to our start menu, however that would not make much sense, since then you'd be back to two-clicks to restart. To restart your computer, all you have to do is click the icon on your desktop and/or taskbar./p>
Working with Zip Files We have had many people write who download software in zip files that are made to be run without installing the program. This tutorial will show you how to work with Zip files containing programs that are meant to be run without being installed. While we know many of you have zip program, for this tutorial, we're just going to use Windows built-in compressed (zipped) file utility./p> We've downloaded a zip file for a screen utility called Caffeine.
Above... the zip file we downloaded called "caffeineOldIcons.zip"
We right-click on the zip file and choose "Extract All..." and the following dialog opens.
Be sure that "Show extracted files when complete" is checked. Then click "Extract". When the extraction is complete, you get new dentures. No. No. No. Kidding... when Windows extracts the files from the zip, you'll see all the file contained in the zip in a new window.
Instead of double-clicking on the application to run it, we suggest you right-click on the application's icon and choose "Pin to Start" or "Pin to Taskbar" or both. (See the screenshot below.) That way you won't have to remember where the program is the next time you want to run it. Note: You can also run the program by right-clicking the program's icon and clicking "Open" (see below).
Or, if you don't want to add it to your taskbar or start menu, you can create a desktop shortcut.
Right-click on the application's icon. From the right-click menu, choose "Send to --> Desktop (create shortcut)" as shown below:
If you later decide you love the application so much, you can right-click the desktop icon you made and pin the program to your start menu or taskbar or both. We hope this helps you understand how to work with zip files for programs that don't need to be installed to run. This article applies to zip files containing
applications - not to zip files of pictures, stationery, documents or
other files. Want more tips, tricks, and information? We have thousands of Windows tips, tricks, and more on our InfoAve web site. Subscribe to our free InfoAve Daily newsletter.
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Whether you’re searching for something in particular – or you just want to browse through thousands of beautiful, free, stock photos, a trip to Pexels is well worth your time. FightersIt's the end of another year - but not just any year - this is the end of 2020 - a year none of us ever want to see again. We all fought to get through this year- and we made it. We all fought hard this past year to keep going through the hardships the pandemic brought. But that's ok. We are fighters anyway. You're fighters and we're fighters too. You made it through the toughest year in a lifetime. And thanks to you, we made it too. We’re fighters fighting for you and fighting to keep our small business going. If you have a small business, then you know that you must be a fighter to survive, because nothing in the word of small business comes easy. Over twenty-three years ago, Darcy and I were riding on a wave of popularity with our email stationery. Eventually, our Cloudeight Stationery website became the biggest, most successful, and most well-known email stationery site on the Web. But even while we were riding high on that wave of popularity, we made a commitment to everyone who visited our sites and those who subscribed to our newsletters. When someone wrote for help, we helped them. We tried hard to answer every email we received. And back in those days, we were getting over a thousand a week. I’ll be honest, Darcy is the one who answered most of those… Read the rest of this essay here. What is a processor (CPU)? EB is a processor. She processes my salary. By the time she gets done processing it, I end up with $7.43 each week, and EB keeps the remaining $4.67 for a processing fee. You might have noticed when you order something "As seen on TV" you end up paying a shipping and processing charge. Processing charges, like EB's, are generally fees for doing very little work - so processing is a euphemism for taking your money for "processing" nothing. But surely, I jest. You want to know about computer processors - the one(s) inside your computer. Generally referred to as "the processor" or CPU (Central Processing Unit), it's the brain of your computer. It's like your brain, which processes everything you hear, see, feel, and do. The CPU or processor(s) inside your computer or device is the brain of your computer or device. But rather than me trying to explain it, I'm going to give you a really good definition from TechTerms. The following is from this TechTerms page. If your brain is ready... start processing! "A processor, or "microprocessor," is a small chip that resides in computers and other electronic devices. Its basic job is to receive input and provide the appropriate output. While this may seem like a simple task, modern processors can handle trillions of calculations per second. The central processor of a computer is also known as the CPU, or "central processing unit." This processor handles all the basic system instructions, such as processing mouse and keyboard input and running applications. Most desktop computers contain a CPU developed by either Intel or AMD, both of which use the x86 processor architecture. Mobile devices, such as laptops and tablets may use Intel and AMD CPUs, but can also use specific mobile processors developed by companies like ARM or Apple. Modern CPUs often include multiple processing cores, which work together to process instructions. While these "cores" are contained in one physical unit, they are actually individual processors. In fact, if you view your computer's performance with a system monitoring utility like Windows Task Manager (Windows) or Activity Monitor (Mac OS X), you will see separate graphs for each processor..." If you want to know even more about this subject, please visit this page to read the rest of this article... and keep on processing. And remember: If you have a desktop, the computer case is not a CPU. What's that EB? Your processing fee just went up by 10%. I barely get paid now! I can't afford another 10%! THANK YOU FOR HELPING US! When you support us with small gift, you help us continue our mission to keep you informed, separate the truth from the hyperbole, and help you stay safer online. Plus, our computer tips make your computer easier to use. Did you know that we provide support to thousands of people? Every week we help dozens of people via email at no charge. The questions and answers you see in our newsletters are from the email answers and help we provide to everyone free of charge. Thanks to your gifts, we do a lot more than provide this free newsletter. We help you recognize online threats, fight for your online privacy, provide you with the knowledge you need to navigate the Web safely, provide you with suggestions for safe, free software and websites, and help you get more out of your PC. Please Help us keep up the good fight with a small gift. Interested in making an automatic monthly gift?
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