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--> Irwin Electronics Weekly Digest Computer 101 Basic terms and navigation by David Irwin on April 28th It always amazes me when I ask someone to open a browser or their File Manager, and they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language. I guess Computers to many people ARE a foreign language. Once we finally get to that browser, if their favorites are missing, they have NO idea how to navigate! So, I decided to write a quick little tutorial on what to do after you press the power button. What's the power button you ask? I'm sorry, you might need Computer 100. That's next door. We're going to assume you've turned the computer on and entered your password if it asked for one. Now you're looking at a screen with a picture in the background, some icons on the screen, and at the bottom, there should be a bar. Typically there is some kind of Menu on the bottom Left, and a little ...

Do you have sticky notes all over your desk with ID’s and passwords? Perhaps you have a notebook with passwords scribbled out and rewritten. Or you went the other direction and have nothing! I run into this all the time. A customer’s hard drive fails and I load Windows or Linux from scratch. When I deliver the computer, they want to be sure they can access their email, Facebook, online games, etc.. They are shocked to find that it does not automatically log in. I often end up spending 2 hours helping customers reset their passwords. Both Chrome and Firefox have the ability to store this information online. That works fine to store the information in that browser. However, once that browser is configured I have to open the other browsers and import the settings. The data between the various browsers will never be synchronized. “Oh, but I never save my passwords in a browser because it’s not safe, and online is even worse!” There is a lot of truth to that. So why would you ever tr...