Tag Archives: efficiency

Looking back through these posts, I noticed I had not devoted a whole post to one of the more important shortcuts: Ctrl-A. Ctrl-A is used to select everything on a page.  That page can be a web page, a Word document, … Continue reading →

The media player that comes with Windows is big, slow and difficult to manipulate.  Don’t use it.  There is a much better player that looks a lot like the old media player built into Windows.  It’s called Media Player Classic. … Continue reading →

The new Vista Start button has a great search tool built right in.  Now you can press the Windows key and type the first couple of letters of the program or document you want to open.  Vista does more than show the … Continue reading →

Another common problem I see slowing computers down is spyware. Spyware is the name given to programs that have found their way into your computer via back-channel methods.  You can get spyware from an installation of a regular piece of … Continue reading →

There is no way to avoid junk mail.  The UF email servers get several hundred thousand email messages each day, and the percentage of non-junk mail is approaching single digits.  Right now, we are at 90% junk mail and that … Continue reading →