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How to Restore the “This PC” Icon in Windows 10

April 15, 2019/in Tech tips /by Kim Grimes

The desktop of every version of Microsoft Windows has included a “My Computer” icon. Windows 10 still has it, but they now call it “This PC”. If you don’t see the icon on your desktop, here is how to restore it;

1 – Right-click on an empty area of the Desktop, then select Personalize from the drop-down menu.

2 – Click the Themes link in the left-hand column.

3 – Click Desktop icon settings.

4 – Check the box beside Computer in the window that pops up. You can choose to either display or hide any of the icons listed inside this window simply by checking or unchecking them.

5 – Click Ok.

How to Customize Junk Email and Safe Senders in Outlook

April 4, 2019/in Tech tips /by Kim Grimes

A great step by step article on how to customize your junk email folder in Outlook. Get through your inbox faster with these steps to get rid of the spam clogging your inbox. Click below to check it out.

“Junk Email is the folder where Outlook sends mail it thinks is spam. You can customize Outlook’s spam filter to block or whitelist senders or domains, or crank up the automatic filtering and delete spam automatically.”

How to Show a Google Calendar in Outlook

March 26, 2019/in Tech tips /by Kim Grimes

Too many separate calendars with appointments in each one? Click the link below to see how you can see your Google Calendar in your Outlook.

Search Google with a Right Click

March 20, 2019/in Tech tips /by Kim Grimes

If you are reading something online, see a term or person you’re interested in, and want to learn more, there is a shortcut. To do it quickly in most browsers, right-click on the term in your browser and choose the “Search Google” option in the menu. Your browser will open a new tab and show you search results on the topic.

Urgent Support Requests

March 12, 2019/in Tech tips /by Kim Grimes

I wanted to share a little pet peeve of mine. Customers that ‘cry wolf’ when it comes to ‘URGENT’ support requests. I think there are ‘some’ that actually don’t realize that they are doing something wrong, ‘some’ are just lazy to choose the proper extension for the tech they want (they’d have to go look it up in our signatures or in their Outlook contacts), but most just don’t know how to quantify ‘urgent’. Please share your experience with this topic below!