How To Make Google Your Browser Default Search…

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How To Make Google Your Browser Default Search Engine

I spent some time looking for this - it isn’t the complete solution: I still don’t know how to make Internet Explorer search Google using autosearch - there is some mention on Usenet of selecting “Google Sites” in the customise box, but I don’t have that option.

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Clean recovery of Surface RT and Windows Update (2022)

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If you reset a Microsoft Surface RT from a recovery disk, there is a good chance that you will get an error from Windows Update: Error 8007000e Windows Updat...

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I often use Visual Studio Code together with WSL2 using the Remote - WSL extension. Recently, I have been using Docker running on a remote server accessed ov...

Change Windows PC name to lower case

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It is straightforward to change the name of your Windows PC through the Settings app (go to System, About, and choose “Rename this PC”). One problem, though,...

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