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DrJBHL's Articles for February, 2020
February 26, 2020 by DrJBHL
Ghacks is an excellent tech website. It was recently sold, however, the tech content has remained in Martin Brinkmann's extremely capable hands.  So, I was perusing there, as I really didn't want to do an article about MS killing the useless Live Tiles in W10, because Start10 beats anything MS has offered with W8 onward, nor about new icons coming to W10 as I think the icons created here beat them hands down, and always have. So, Brinkmann discusses the findings of this study , which...
February 15, 2020 by DrJBHL
The external link  is a really useful explanation of how to add some power to the W10 context (right click) menu by Brady Gavin at How to Geek . I won't waste your time with copying exactly how to do a registry edit, but I will reproduce the universal warning about editing the Windows registry: "The Registry Editor is a powerful tool and, if it’s misused, it can render your system unstable or even inoperable." A useful link:  https://www.howtogeek.com/school/using-...
February 2, 2020 by DrJBHL
Razvan Serea wrote a good review of Windows Ultimate Tweaker 4.7 over at Neowin, including the change log. There are more than two hundred new tweaks, and most pertinently new ones in the privacy and security sections...nice for the folks who are new to W10 from W7 and who are (rightfully) concerned about the former. The full list of the tweaks are here:  https://www.thewindowsclub.com/list-of-tweaks-available-in-uwt4  . Here's a screenie showing privacy tweaks. The red ar...