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• A wide-ranging trio of questions

  Posted on March 22, 2021 at 01:06 CDT by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

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  By Fred Langa

  This week’s top reader-submitted questions cover quite a spread of topics, starting with some unexpected lithium-ion battery behavior.

  Then we examine the reasons for a reader’s deep misgivings about the safety and reliability of cloud-storage services, and we’ll wrap up with a super-simple, three-click solution for a notebook PC whose unplugged performance is simply too slow for practical use.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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• Freeware Spotlight — SwitchPowerScheme

  Posted on August 16, 2020 at 20:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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  By Deanna McElveen

  If it were up to me, Windows’ desktop context menu — the right-click pop-up menu — would take up two full screens!

  Then I’d have quick access to everything with just a mouse-click! … And that would give birth to a whole new generation of utilities to shrink Deanna’s context menu back to a manageable size.

  That wishful thinking probably explains my excitement at discovering Sordum.org’s SwitchPowerScheme.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.32.0 (2020-08-17).

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