If you know what a ‘command prompt’ or command window is, you may not know how to copy and paste from it. Here’s the trick: 1. You can get the window to appear in at least three ways. Type cmd into the search line after you click the start button; right click in most folders … Continue reading Copy and Paste from Windows Command Window
In order to really lock down your WiFi, you can limit access to certain MAC addresses. That way, only those computers/mobile devices can use your signal, all others will be locked out. We showed you yesterday how to do this. Here is the link: Lock Down Your WiFi Signal Today, we’re going to show you … Continue reading Routers 101 – How to find your MAC address
Ipconfig seems like a strange title for a post, right? Once you see how ipconfig can help you, it might lose it’s strangeness. I’ve written about the command prompt in previous posts. Here is one: https://brianmahoney.ca/?s=command+prompt The command prompt takes you back to the days of DOS but it’s more like a window into the soul … Continue reading Ipconfig
Sometimes when we save a complete web page, as suggested in a previous post, we get a series of proxy files instead of .jpg files. Sure, we can right click each picture and save it individually but if there are fifty photos on the page, that takes a lot of time. Here’s an example of … Continue reading Save/Rename Proxy Pictures
The right click menu allows you to do many things in Windows; rename files, send files somewhere else, copy, delete, cut, etc. Did you know that there is a hidden right click menu? Let’s take a look at what it does. Here’s what I see when I right click a menu normally on my computer. … Continue reading Hidden Right Click Menu