The Older Geek

Your heart may skip a beat when you turn on your Windows computer and see an error dialog window informing you that your User Profile is corrupted, and, therefore, unavailable. Don’t worry– your files and other data is still intact on your hard drive. A corrupt file is preventing you from accessing them, but you [...]

I’m not sure why some users are experiencing this problem: you download Google Earth, install the program, and…. nothing happens. The program application icon does not appear in the Start Menu. It’s not on the Desktop. Nothing. What gives? This happened to me last week. I downloaded Google Earth twice before I did some digging [...]

Windows computers have a built-in compression functionality similar to the brand-name software, WinZip. To “zip” a file or folder is to compress it. All data on your computer is digitized, of course. The data is compressed– not as we think of compressed as in squeezed together, but reorganized into smaller bits. Think of a zip [...]

If you work at the computer all day, as I do, you learn very quickly how tiresome all the billions of hand movements can be. It becomes a chore to move from the keyboard to the mouse to the keyboard and back again. Ugh! I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, especially for the [...]