Category: Windows
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Fix for slow or hanging right click button
My daughter upgraded her Lenovo laptop to Windows 10 (hint – don’t do this until Christmas) and I spend several hours finding and installing drivers so it would work smoothly again. Having done so I found that the right-click button was very slow on the desktop. The problem was cased by the right-click button having…
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Should you use Outlook on Android – No
I take the pain so you don’t have to. Outlook for Android does not work well. I drank the Microsoft Koolaid of “Office on any device” and moved all my email accounts on my Android phone from the stock email client over to the Outlook App. This has many faults * html in emails does…
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Windows Explorer is dead – OneDrive on the web is king
Microsoft really, really get the cloud. Windows 10 is a “Cloud first” operating system and as it matures and the interactions with Office 365 become ever smoother we are going to see great things. Dropbox has lead the way in cloud storage and it is almost perfect. Microsoft is playing catchup and has the disadvantage…
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Use Firefox not Edge if you only have 2 GB RAM
The best browser for 2 GB Windows 10 laptops is Firefox. Edge uses even more memory than Chrome, therefore use Firefox on low RAM devices such as the HP Stream 13. I have been testing Windows 10 on an HP Stream 13 using the Edge browser for the last week. I have seen high memory…
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Upgrading to Windows 10 may break Outlook 2013
I upgraded my HP Stream 13 to Windows 10. After a day or so I started Outlook 2013 and found that I could not send emails. After several frustrating hours I found out that this is a known issue. http://www.msoutlook.info/question/cannot-send-after-windows-10-upgrade and the fix is described in the link above.
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Backing up a virtual machine to the cloud
Any virtual machine will be large, probably >10 GB and it changes regularly. To back it up to the cloud I would ideally use a block level back-up solution. That way only the changes get synced up. The catch is that a block level back-up solution needs an agent at both ends and as far…
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Vagrant and Chocolatey can script setting up Windows environments
In an earlier post I suggested that development environments should be virtual machines and I will probably run mine in Virtualbox 5.0 because this now supports all hypervisors including Hyper-V on appropriate Windows platforms (Pro or Enterprise). Virtualbox is also the preferred target of Vagrant which we will discuss below. Virtual machines can be copied…
Dr James Bayley 