Audacity - Intro and 'How To'

Ted Wilks updates his 19 July 2012 presentation on Audacity, the free do-everything audio editor

Cleaning Crapware from your PC

Received another good example of a PC over run with 'crapware'.  This computer had 11 different "Speed up my PC" programs installed - those programs that claim to fix your PC with a free download, install and scan.  Of course, after finding X number of problems ('X' is often in the thousands!) they want money, sometime lots of money.



"ShouldIRemoveIt?" identified 16 red and 41 yellow-rated programs all of which were killed (uninstalled.)  And there were another 47 programs that I uninstalled after reading the descriptions.  (How the h* did the Ask Toolbar rate 'green'?)  Recommended:  http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/index.aspx

June 2013 Q&As

It's the session where Bob tries and sometime succeeds in giving simple answers to questions that the Senior Surfer Membership has asked.  It was certainly a grab bag this week:

• HP's Printing from Tablets & Smart Phones - "ePrint"
• Can you still buy Windows 7 PCs? (though Bob recommends Windows 8 with one of the many free fixes)
• My computer is slow ... Why?  A recommendation for the free program "Should I Remove it?" and a study of crapware.  Plus, use RevoUninstaller if the program does't want to go away.
• What is the Clear Cast "Free TV?" (it's a fancy set of rabbit ears.)
• Do you trust your Government?  A rare excursion into politics.
• Do you need an application updater?  (no.)
• CCleaner screwed up my computer - what happened?
• Do Tablets and Smart Phone need Anti-virus programs?

And a bunch of other quickies - you'll have to check out the slides for those!