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Windows 10 Current version: 20H2 - 19042.844

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1. Activation of Windows 10
2. Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Reader DC Instructions
3. Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Reader DC download
4. Adobe Flash Player No Longer Supported
5. ADSL
6. ADSL Modem
7. ADW Cleaner
8. Adware Removal Tool
9. Android
10. Android Smart Phone I
11. Android Smart Phone II
12. Android - Samsung Manuals
13. Any Audio Converter
14. Anti-Virus
15. Anti-Virus On-Line Virus Scan
16. Anti-Virus Uninstall Tools
17. Apache Open Office
18. ASCII and Unicode
19. ASCII Table
20. ASCII Conversion Chart
21. Audacity Sound File Editor I
22. Audacity Sound File Editor II
23. Audio File Formats Explained
24. Audio Files - MP3 Volume Adjust
25. Audio Files - MP3 Gain
26. Audio File Converter - Switch

A - Other Places

1. ABC Radio Live News
2. Airport-codes LAX
3. Aircraft Museum
4. Almanac -Nautical
5. Algebra Solver
6. Alex Beach Live Web CAM
7. Aljazeera
8. American Practical Navigator
9. Animated Knots
10. Apollo Astronauts
11. Apollo Moon Missions
12. Archive - free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
13. Astronomy Calendar of Events
14. Audio Tone Generator (hearing test)
15. Australian Army
16. Australian Defense Magazine
17. Australian Department of Defense
18. Australian Navy News
19. Australia Post

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1. Background Pictures I
2. Background Pictures II

Backup Programs

1. - - Macrium Reflect
2. - - Windows 10 File History
3. - - Yadis

1. Batteries on the Motherboard
2. Battery Acid - How to Clean
3. Binary Number System
4. Bing Search Engine
5. BIOS
6. BIOS/UEFI
7. BIOS/UEFI video
8. Bits, Bytes, Megabytes
9. Bits and Pieces
10. Bleeping Computer
11. Blue-Ray
12. Bookmarks
13. Broadband
14. Build your Own Computer
15. Bulk Rename Utility

Browsers

1. - - Chrome
2. - - Edge
3. - - Firefox
4. - - Safari
5. - - Home Page Settings

B - Other Places

1. Black Hole
2. BOM - Weather Radar and Satellite
3. Books from Amazon
4. Books from Fishpond
5. Books from Project Gutenberg
6. Brigade Quartermaster Store
7. Buderim Men's Shed

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1. Caliber E-Book Reader and Converter
2. CD/DVD Burner
3. Character Map - € - £ - ¥ - ¢
4. Chrome Web Browser
5. Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Cleaning Tools

1. - - CCleaner
2. - - Glary Utilities 5
3. - - Windows 10 Storage Sense

1. Clipboard Windows 10
2. Clipboard - Ditto
3. Clone / Macrium Reflect
4. Cloud Computing
5. Cloud Computing Dropbox
6. Cloud Computing Google Drive
7. Cloud Computing One Drive
8. Compare Before you Purchase - Mobile Phone Plans

Computer Stores

1. - - CPL Melbourne
2. - - Harris Technology Melbourne
3. - - Ink Station Sydney
4. - - Jaycar Maroochydore
5. - - MWAVE Sydney
6. - - Megabuy Brisbane
7. - - Office Works Maroochydore
8. - - UMART Maroochydore
9. - - Wagner Electronics Sydney

1. Computer Virus
2. Connectors - PC Connectors explained
3. Controlled Folder Access - Windows Security
4. CPU Central Processor Unit Explained
5. CPU Sockets - Intel CPU Sockets Explained
6. CPU Sockets - AMD CPU Sockets Explained
7. Cut, Copy and Paste
8. Cut, Copy and Paste video

C - Other Places

1. Calculator-Full Screen
2. Calculator-Geometric shapes.
3. Calculator-Scientific
4. Calculator Tools I
5. Calculator Tools II
6. Celestial Navigation
7. Constellations
8. Conversions - Various Unit Conversions
9. Computer Club Sunshine Coast
10. Cooking Measurements - Standard Australian
11. Cooking Measurement Charts
12. Current Position of the Planets
13. Currency Converter

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1. DART - Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
2. DEBUT - Screen Recorder
3. Digital Blasphemy Desktop Wallpaper
4. Digital Media File Formats Explained
5. Disk Partition
6. Display Port
7. Ditto - Clipboard

Downloading

1. - - How to Download Safely
2. - - How to Download Video and Audio Files explained
3. - - Downloading Music (MP3) from Youtube using 4K
4. - - 4K YouTube Video Downloader Website
5. - - Download pictures from your telephone
6. - - Download pictures from your camera
7. - - Download Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

1. Drivers - How to Update and how not to update
2. Dropbox - Cloud Storage
3. Duck Duck Go - Search Engine
4. Dummies
5. DVDs
6. DVD Ripping Tools - Make MKV
7. DVD Ripping Tools - WIN X DVD Ripper

D - Other Places

1. Distance Calculator using place names
2. Distance Calculator using Lat and Long

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1. EaseUS TODO Backup Program
2. EaseUS Partition Master Setup
3. Edge -Browser
4. Email
5. Error Occurred While Attempting to Create..
6. Error 404
7. Ethernet
8. Everything Search
9. ExFat File System

E - Other Places

1. Earthquake Warning Australia
2. Earthquake - Tsunami Warning Centre Pacific
3. Earthquake - Tsunami Warning Centre Australia
4. Electromagnetic Spectrum
5. Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)

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1. Facebook
2. Facebook - Dangers of using Facebook
3. Facebook Risks
4. Favorites
5. Filehippo - Software Download Site
6. Firefox Web Browser
7. Firefox Add-Ons
8. Firefox 82 Shortcuts
9. Flight Radar 24
10. Fonts and Typing Special Characters: - € - £ - ¥ - ¢
11. Foxit PDF Reader

FILES:

F - Other Places

1. Financial Calculators
2. Financial Formulas and Calculators

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1. GIMP - Free Photo Edit Program
2. Glary Utilities 5 Cleanup Utility
3. Glossary I - Computer Tech Terms
4. Glossary II
5. GMAIL
6. God Mode Master List of all Windows 10 Settings
7. Google Chrome Web Browser
8. Google Earth
9. Google Search Engine
10. Google Drive Cloud Storage
11. Google Tips and Tricks
12. Google Search Hidden Features
13. GPU - Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Explained
14. Group Policy
15. Group Policy, How to open

G - Other Places

1. Geography Game
2. Geology and Earth Science
3. Good Life Centre
4. GPS Explained

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1. Hacking
2. Handbrake Video Converter
3. Hard Drives
4. Hard Drive Storage Explained
5. HD Video Converter
6. Hexadecimal
7. Hexadecimal to Decimal Converter
8. Hoax Slayer - Email Hoaxes
9. Home Page
10. Host Papa Web Host
11. How To Geek

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language):

1. - - HTML - What is it?
2. - - CSS - What is it?
3. - - Java Script - What is it?
4. - - Tutorial
5. - - Color Picker
6. - - Character Set
7. - - Visual Studio Code Editor
8. - - Markup Validation Service

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1. Image Editor; Free Online
2. iMazing - Transfer files between Windows and ipad, iphone
3. Ink Station
4. Internet Connections
5. IOBIT Uninstaller
6. IOBIT Unlocker
7. IP Address - TCP/IP
8. IrfanView Graphic viewer
9. Install Windows 10
10. ISO Files
11. ISO TO USB
12. Is It Down?
13. iTunes

I - Other Places

1. International Space Station

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1. What is Java Script?

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1. Keyboard and Shortcuts
2. Keyboard shortcuts
3. Key Finder

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1. LAN - Local Area Network
2. Laptop Service Manuals
3. Laptop Batteries
4. Libre Office Calc Guide
5. Libre Office Writer Guide
6. Libre Office
7. Lifewire Tech Site

Linux

1. What is Linux
2. How to Install Linux
3. How to Upgrade from Windows to Linux
4. Linux Cook Book
5. Linux For Dummies
6. Linux commands
7. Linux commands You Should Know
8. Using the Terminal I
9. Using the Terminal II
10. What is Ubuntu?
11. Download Ubuntu
12. Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
13. Ubuntu Desk Top Guide

L - Other Places

1. Latitude and Longitude Finder
2. Lightning Tracker

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1. M.2 Slot
2. M.2 Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) - M.2 / NVME / SATA Explained
3. Macrium Reflect Instructions
4. Macrium Reflect
5. Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
6. Major Geeks Software Download Site
7. Make MKV Program to Rip DVD's
8. Malware
9. Malwarebytes
10. Malwarebytes - Instructions
11. Media Creation Tool Instructions
12. Media Creation Tool
13. Memory RAM - YouTube Video
14. Memory RAM - HowToGeek
15. Memory explained
16. Memory RAM Limitations explained
17. Memory and Storage Converter

Microsoft - ↑Index↑

1. - - Microsoft Home
2. - - Microsoft 365 - Name change from Office 365
3. - - Microsoft Account / Local User Account
4. - - How to create a New Microsoft Account
5. - - Enable Hidden Administrator Account
6. - - How to change the email address on your Microsoft Account
7. - - How to completely delete your Microsoft Account
8. - - Microsoft User Account Fails Logon
9. - - Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
10. - - Microsoft Knowledge Base
11. - - Microsoft Office
12. - - Microsoft Office Tutorial
13. - - Microsoft Office 365 Instruction Manual
14. - - Microsoft Office 2019 Instruction Manual
15. - - Microsoft Photo Gallery
16. - - Microsoft One Drive Cloud Computing
17. - - Microsoft Word; how to reset to Default Values

1. MiniToll Partition Wizard
2. Modem/Router
3. Modems and Routers
4. Modems
5. Motherboards I
6. Motherboards II
7. Mouse Pointers - Windows 10
8. Mouse Pointers - Windows 7 or Windows 8
9. MSN - Search Engine
10. MWAVE - Computer Store

Music Programs

1. - - Audacity Sound File Editor
2. - - Audio Formats Explained
3. - - MP3 Volume Adjust
4. - - MP3 Gain
5. - - MP3-Switch Audio File Converter
6. - - MP3 Tag
7. - - VLC Media Player
8. - - Windows Media Player
9. - - 4K - Downloading Music (MP3)
10. - - Music Video Jukebox

M - Other Places

1. Map Reading for Kids
2. Maritime Safety Information
3. Maritime Shipping News
4. Math is Fun
5. Math is Fun - Solving Triangles
6. Metric Conversions
7. Military Manuals
8. Mobile Phone Networks 5G and Millimeter Wave Bands
9. Mobile Phone Networks
10. Moon - Motion of the Moon
11. Moon - Why does it Rise 50 Minutes later each night?

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1. NBN Web Site
2. Setting up NBN
3. NBN Fiber to the Premises
4. Netflix
5. Network
6. Ninite - Software Download Site
7. Norton Removal Tool
8. Notepad++
9. Notepad On Line
10. NTFS File System
11. Number Systems (Binary, Decimal, Hex)
12. NVME Drives

N - Other Places

1. Navigation Charts
2. News - ABC TV
3. News - Al Jazeera
4. News - BBC
5. News - CNN
6. News.com.au
7. News - Reuters
8. NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology - Time

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1. OBS Studio
2. OCR (on-line)
3. Simple OCR
4. Office 365 Instruction Manual
5. On-Line Virus Scan
6. OneDrive on Windows 10 beginner's guide
7. One Drive Cloud Computing
8. One Drive Error Notice - When you try to Restore Default Location of Documents.
9. Documents Linked to One Drive - How to Unlink
10. Open Office
11. Optical Disk formats explained
12. Outlook

O - Other Places

1. Old Farmers Almanac

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1. Pandora - Recover deleted files
2. Password Reset
3. Partitions; What is a Partition?
4. - - Paragon Partition Manager
5. - - MiniToll Partition Wizard
6. - - EaseUS Partition Master

PDF:

1. - - What is a PDF?
2. - - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Instructions
3. - - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC download
4. - - Foxit PDF Reader
5. - - I Love PDF Website
6. - - Win2PDF Website

1. Performance Graphs, Windows 10
2. Phishing
3. Portable Applications I
4. Portable Applications II
5. Power Supply (Computer)
6. Print Screen and Snipping Tool
7. Print Friendly and PDF
8. Printers
9. Printers, Installing and Uninstalling
10. Process Explorer
11. Product Key Finder
12. Product Keys
13. Program Files(X86)

P - Other Places

1. Periodic Table of Elements
2. Phonetic Alphabet
3. Planets of our Solar System
4. Postal Codes Australia
5. Postal Codes United States - Zip Codes
6. Postal Codes World Wide

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1. QR Codes
2. QR Codes - Threats and Malware
3. Quad Directory
4. Quad Core Processor
5. QWERTY

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1. RAM - YouTube Video
2. RAM - HowToGeek
3. Ransomware - Explained
4. Ransomware - How to protect your PC from attack
5. Rapid Tables (Unicode)
6. Reactivate Windows after a hardware change
7. Recorder, OBS Studio
8. Recuva - Recover Deleted Files
9. Registry I
10. Registry II
11. Registry Cleaner
12. Repair Manuals for just about everything
13. Restore Point Windows 10
14. Revo Uninstaller
15. Ring Tones
16. Rip DVD's
17. Rootkits Explained
18. Routers and Modems
19. Router/Modem Setup: Telstra NBN
20. Router/Modem Setup: DLink
21. Router/Modem Setup: Linksys
22. Router/Modem Setup: Netcomm
23. Modem/Router
24. Runs Slow - 12 Reasons why PC's Run Slow
25. Run Commands

R - Other Places

1. Radio Garden
2. Road Closures Sunshine Coast
3. RPN Calculator

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1. Safari
2. Safe Mode - F8 key to start Windows in Safe Mode
3. Safe Mode - How to Boot into
4. Safe Mode to Fix Your Windows
5. Samsung Tablet manuals
6. Scam Watch
7. Screen Recorder DEBUT
8. Screen Recorder OBS Studio
9. Screenshots
10. SD Cards
11. SD Card Format

Search Engines:

1. - - Bing
2. - - Duck Duck Go
3. - - Google
4. - - MSN
5. - - Yahoo
6. - - Yippy

1. Secure Boot UEFI - How to Disable
2. Security Check/Tips:
3. Settings in Windows 10
4. Settings - God Mode
5. Shut Down Button - make your own
6. Skype
7. Snipping Tool
8. Social Media

Software Download Sites:

1. - - Filehippo
2. - - Major Geeks
3. - - Ninite

1. Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) - M.2 / NVME / SATA Explained
2. Solid State NVME Drives
3. Sound File Editor Audacity
4. Speakers-How to Test-
5. Speccy - System Info
6. Special Characters: - € - £ - ¥ - ¢
7. SpyBot Search and Destroy
8. Start Menu
9. Start Up Folder
10. Streaming Video and Audio site
11. Super Anti Spy Ware
12. Super User Computer Geeks
13. Switch - Audio File Converter
14. System Restore - Windows 10

Security Bulletins

S - Other Places

1. Size Comparisons - Astronomy
2. Solar Calculator
3. Space Weather
4. Speed of Light Distance Calculator
5. Sunshine Coast Computer Club
6. Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher

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1. Tabbed Browsing
2. Take Ownership of Files
3. Take Ownership of Files using IOBIT Unlocker
4. Task Manager
5. Tech Terms I
6. Tech Terms II
7. Telstra: BigPond Settings POP3 and SMTP.
8. Telstra: What do the lights mean on the Modem?
9. Thunderbird
10. Thunderbolt
11. Tutorials - Windows 10
12. Twitter I
13. Twitter II

TCP/IP

1. - - TCP/IP - What is an IP Address?
2. - - TCP/IP - Ports Explained
3. - - TCP/IP - How to use PING
4. - - TCP/IP - test my Internet connection?
5. - - TCP/IP - How to use TRACERT
6. - - TCP/IP - How to use NETSTAT to view open Ports
7. - - TCP/IP - Resetting

T - Other Places

1. Tide Times- Maroochy River - David Low Bridge
2. Time - NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
3. Time - Exact Time for any Time Zone
4. Time and Navigation History
5. Time Zones
6. Time Zones In Australia
7. Traffic Cameras QLD
8. Trans Link QLD
9. Triangles - Finding Missing Sides and Angles
10. Earthquake - Tsunami Warning Centre Pacific
11. Tsunami Warning Centre Australia
12. Tutorials - Covers a Wide Range of subjects.

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1. Ubuntu Linux
2. UEFI/BIOS
3. UEFI/BIOS Set Up Guide
4. UEFI - How to Disable Secure Boot
5. UMART - Computer Store
6. ASCII and Unicode
7. Unicode 13 In Depth
8. Unicode Character Table
9. Unicode Character Chart complete list in PDF
10. Unicode Input Tool
11. Uninstallers for anti virus programs
12. Unistallers II for anti virus programs

USB

1. - - USB
2. - - Thunderbolt
3. - - How to BOOT from USB Drive
4. - - How to Optimize USB Storage
5. - - Safely Remove USB
6. - - Detect and Test for FAKE USB Flash Drives
7. - - USB Connectors
8. - - USB Device Not Detected
9. - - USB Port Not Working

U - Other Places

1. U.S. Navy News - World Wide
2. U.S Navy Submarine Museum
3. U.S. Navy News
4. U3A Sunshine Coast

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1. Vera Crypt - Encrypt Drives
2. Video Cards
3. Virtual Memory
4. Visual Studio Code HTML Editor
5. Voice over Internet VOIP

Virus:

1. - - Virus - What is a Virus?
2. - - Does Your Computer have a Virus?
3. - - Virus Scan On-Line
4. - - Virus - How to Remove
5. - - Virus Uninstallers for anti virus programs
6. - - Virus Uninstallers II - for anti virus programs

Video programs

1. - - HD Video Converter
2. - - Handbrake Video Converter
3. - - VLC Media Player
4. - - Digital Media File Formats Explained
5. - - Video File Formats Explained
6. - - Video program OBS Studio
7. - - How to Download Video and Audio Files explained
8. - - 4K YouTube Video Downloader

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1. Wallpaper Digitalblasphemy
2. Wallpaper Unsplash
3. Web Design - HTML Tutorials W3Schools
4. Web Mail explained
5. WIFI explained
6. WIFI Password
7. WIFI Key Finder Magical Jelly Bean
8. WIFI - Connected to WIFI but No Internet.
9. Win2PDF - PDF Creator
10. WIKI How - How to Website
11. WISE Program uninstaller
12. Word; how to reset to Default Values
13. Word On-Line
14. Word Pad

Windows 10: - ↑Index↑

1. - - Installation of Windows 10 - Media Creation Tool Instructions
2. - - Media Creation Tool Download
3. - - Activation of Windows 10
4. - - Windows 10 License use
5. - - Windows 10 License Transfer
6. - - System Restore
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8. - - What is the Latest Version of Windows 10?
9. - - How to Check if your PC has the Latest Version
10. - - What is new and changed in the latest version 20H2
11. §
12. - - Desktop Basic Configuration
13. - - How to Quickly Find Specific System Settings
14. - - Performance Graphs
15. - - Security Secrets Hidden Features
16. - - Media Player
17. - - Clipboard
18. - - Storage Sense; Backup Application
19. - - Tutorials
20. §
21. - - Microsoft.com
22. - - Windows Club
23. - - News from Bleeping Computer
24. §
25. - - Updates:
26. - - Update Release Information
27. - - Update Guide
28. - - How to Fix Updates
29. - - How to Update Hardware Drivers
30. - - Update Fails to Install
31. - - Optional Quality Updates
32. - - Updates Lessons Learned

W - Other Places

1. Wavelength Calculator
2. Weight on other worlds
3. World Atlas

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1. X86 Program Files
2. X86 X64 What is the difference?
3. Yadis Back Up Program
4. Yahoo - Search Engine
5. Yippy - Search Engine
6. YouTube
7. Youtube - How to Download Video and Audio Files explained
8. Zip Files - What are they?
9. ZORIN Linux OS

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1. 32 Bit vs 64 Bit Explained - Microsoft
2. 32 Bit vs 64 Bit Explained - PCWorld
3. 4K - How to Download Video and Audio Files explained
4. 4K YouTube Video Downloader
5. 4K - Downloading Music from Youtube using 4k
6. 5G - Mobil Phone Networks Millimeter Wave Bands
7. 5G
8. 5G Frequency Bands
9. 7-ZIP

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