I have been experiencing slow downs on my desktop computer for a while now. I tried troubleshooting wizards and other things to no avail Then I came across this article discussing high resource use by Acrobat Reader even while inactive: Adobe RdrCEF.exe High CPU usage on Windows 11/10. I tried the [Read more..]

I just came across this interesting post from Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable, titled Google Says Intrusive Interstitials Don’t Impact Indexing But Can Impact Ranking (September 17, 2021): Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that mobile intrusive interstitial elements [Read more..]

If you use a desktop or laptop computer to access sites on the internet and find that sometimes you are experiencing slow connections or errors mentioning DNS, try the switching to the Google Public DNS Servers instead of the DNS centers used by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). First, download [Read more..]

Lazy loading in  theory is a nice feature to speed up the loading of web pages. In practice, it’s a highly annoying feature that causes web pages to jump up and down while you are trying to read them. This may be especially true in mobile versions of browsers. I use Firefox (currently [Read more..]

Many bloggers and small business owners use the Google AdSense Network as a way of earning a little passive income to help offset the costs of maintaining your website. The network offers to display ads in locations of your choice that are contextually related to the content of the locations where [Read more..]

Updated to work with the latest Firefox and Windows 10 updates. I have used Firefox as my default and preferred browser for several years and despite its declining market share I still find it to be the fastest loading and fastest rendering browser, significantly outperforming the next best option, [Read more..]

On one of my computers, I have experienced multiple problems with Windows Feature updates since about 1703. I tried everything I could find online to fix the problem (e.g., Windows 10 Creators Update common installation problems and fixes) and really nothing worked. The only way I could get a [Read more..]

Windows 10 users have been reporting this very annoying issue since 2015 or earlier: Just Google “Windows 10 hangs on shutdown” or “Windows 10 freezes on shutdown or restart“. Page after page of complaints and suggestions, including many by Microsoft.   Several of these [Read more..]

I have been using Microsoft Outlook for years through a number of iterations, starting I think with Outlook 2000, then Outlook 2003, then Outlook 2007, and then Outlook 2010. Outlook has always had its quirks, some of which I’ve addressed here in other posts. But it basically worked, most of [Read more..]

I use Microsoft Outlook as my primary email client but for less urgent things (things that don’t necessarily need to have immediate attention) I also have some accounts set up in the Windows 10 Mail app. Periodically, the Mail app seems to get stuck displaying 1 unread message when in fact [Read more..]