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3. If you use a machine to make money, use another to play with

This is number one in my opinion.

With my Dell XPS laptop I have 24x7 free phone support, and next business day on-site support - I don't have to go anywhere. I've only had to call once, on a Sunday, no hold time. Try that with your local guy

Ignore the support altogether, and do it yourself. I believe it's highly beneficial for a man to know his tools well, so I taught myself about computers. Rather than paying for a Dell and warranty, I'd just build 2 myself, but then I'm one of those people who likes doing things, rather than paying other people to do them.

noirua said:
Not exactly a computer tip but this link will take you to browser speeds. Interestingly it gives speeds for certaing types of browsing. Are you using the best browser for the work you do?

That's a pretty old comparison, I'm sure things have changed substancially.
 
With my Dell XPS laptop I have 24x7 free phone support, and next business day on-site support - I don't have to go anywhere. I've only had to call once, on a Sunday, no hold time. Try that with your local guy ;)

your experience with tech support will vary wildly. if you luck out you get a good phone or on-site tech, but its just as likely (or sadly, more likely) you get a complete monkey who makes things worse.
 
My daily posting to ASF NYSE Dow Jones finished today at:

My Yahoo webpage:
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I use Firefox and now use "Take a Screenshot"

Right click and select "Take a Screenshot"

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to copy click
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I then "paste" into my daily posting NYSE Dow Jones finished today at:
 

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I'm unsure if there is a question embedded in your post @bigdog but a simpler method would be to use the inbuilt Windows Accessories Snipping Tool.

Choose Windows Accessories and tap Snipping Tool.

You will be amazed how easy it is to use....

Where to find Snipping Tool in Windows:
Snipping tool is only included with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Skate.
 
I'm unsure if there is a question embedded in your post @bigdog but a simpler method would be to use the inbuilt Windows Accessories Snipping Tool.

Choose Windows Accessories and tap Snipping Tool.

You will be amazed how easy it is to use....

Where to find Snipping Tool in Windows:
Snipping tool is only included with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Skate.

Hi

Snipping Tool is fantastic

Can be used with Excel, Word. PDF, desktop, photograph, freeze frame of movie and I assume anything you can see on you computer

Fantastic For PDF files, I can snip the whole document and presented with text
-- was doing screen prints and posting to paint, selecting area and pasting on page by page basis

Computer error messages!

Snipping Tool now added to my taskbar

I was using Snipping Tool for Edge browser on wife's computer

Thank you skate
 

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An old thread.

One of my kids inadvertently deleted a number of emails they were keeping on family history matters and wondered if I had them and if so could I send them. I refrained from admonishing them about backups. However, while I didn't have the actual emails I did have a PDF backup which I sent. They were curious how I did it and so I'll post the method here just in case others would like to to the same.

It's using Microsof Print to PDF. Simply select all the relevant emlails and print to a single PDF document. Use OCR to search the document if need be.
 
I'm unsure if there is a question embedded in your post @bigdog but a simpler method would be to use the inbuilt Windows Accessories Snipping Tool.

Choose Windows Accessories and tap Snipping Tool.

You will be amazed how easy it is to use....

Where to find Snipping Tool in Windows:
Snipping tool is only included with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Skate.
Just read this post, thanks for the tip Skate great app.
Tried it out on this cartoon in a newspaper,that cracked me up.


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