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Bloody Computer!

http://bloodycomputer.blogspot.com/

Computer help and advice in novice-friendly language.

Added on: Aug 5th, 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: Kevin Grieves
Listed in: Computers Internet
Tags: freeware Computers elearning keyboard shortcut word processing windows gui

Recent Posts

Goodbye Windows. Hello Xubuntu

Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 23:00 in Linux

For years I have had a love/hate relationship with Windows in its various incarnations, which has led me to flirt with a number of Linux distributions in the past. Nevertheless, games and other Windows only applications have meant that I have always ...
The 22nd Carnival of Computer Help and Advice

Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 07:25 in blog carnival

Welcome to the twenty-second monthly Carnival of Computer Help and Advice - a digest of recent blog articles that spread the wealth of PC knowledge."Firefox is the second most popular web browser in the world and it continues to gain popularity and m...
How to sort the Programs Menu

Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 12:04 in windows gui

If, like me, you have a lot of applications installed on Windows XP, it can be time consuming to find the folder or icon for the program that you are looking for on the Start menu. You can sort the contents of the Programs menu into alphabetical orde...
The 21st Carnival of Computer Help and Advice

Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 09:32 in blog carnival

Welcome to the twenty-first monthly Carnival of Computer Help and Advice - a digest of recent blog articles providing top tips for PC users. Because so many blog authors submitted high quality posts for inclusion this month, this carnival is a little...
By Your Command: A Rough Guide to the Command Prompt, Part 2

Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 in command prompt

In a previous post I explained how to navigate to different drives and folders using Command Prompt. I also showed how to list the contents of the current folder using the dir command. We will now look a little closer at this command.In the tutorial,...
By Your Command: A Rough Guide to the Command Prompt, Part 1

Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 10:27 in command prompt

Before the rise of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) the main method of controlling computers was through text based operating systems such as MS-DOS. You can still use these old DOS commands using a facility called Command Prompt that is available in...