This series is for moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas, and anyone else in the family tree who has ever asked their geek relative to “fix” their computer during a holiday visit. It’s for the neophyte or casual computer user who doesn’t want to sit around troubleshooting problems and trying out solutions.

This is for when your computer seems to take forever to boot, or when it hangs, freezes, and otherwise exhibits frustrating behavior. More than anything, it’s just for when your computer seems to have lost its pep.

What this series isn’t, is a hardcore advanced guide to Windows tweaking and tuning. There will no mention of the Windows Registry, services, or overclocking. So, if you don’t know what any of those things are, don’t worry, we’re not going to cover them.

What we are going to cover are the most basic techniques and tools to help even the most hapless of technophobes and self-described computer illiterates. We know there’s a million-and-one guides already out there but How-To Geek School wants to be different by teaching you, rather than telling you what to do. We don’t want to overwhelm you with every single possible solution, because in the end, you just need a regular routine and a few simple steps to follow.

We’ve come a long way since the days of infected floppy disks moving between DOS computers. Malware isn’t about messing with you, joking around, or just causing damage — it’s all about profit.

Are PCs Dying?

Reports of the PC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. We’ve all heard that everyone’s just buying tablets and throwing out their keyboards and mice. But, if you live in the real world, you see people using PCs every day.

The statistics show that PCs are still selling in large numbers and are used much more than tablets. But we don’t need statistics to see this — we all know that huge amounts of people still use and need PCs.

Ever wondered how the old Nintendo (NES) light gun worked?

E Ink vs. LCD: Which Screen is Best For Reading? http://ow.ly/2Dvqy6

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" - Mark Twain

The internet exploded recently with the news that 11% of Americans think that HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.

Or so we were told.

You might have noticed that each of the news stories mentions a particular web site that ran the "study"... a no-name coupon site that didn't exist before a few months ago, and had no visitors until this story ran.

The reality is that "study" was just an online multiple-choice survey, not a "study", which is a word that people associate with something scientific, and as we all know, there's nothing scientific about an online survey from unknown people who might just be likely to choose those options to be ironic.

That survey and the associated (believable) story about dumb people is just a marketing stunt, a way to get the story to go viral so everybody will hear about voucher cloud, a website that nobody had ever heard of before.

Smart PR people.

Very irresponsible journalism on the part of the LA Times.

Foxit Reader is now bundling Conduit's search hijacking awfulware. 

It's long past time to stop recommending Foxit and find a better replacement. No reason to spread the infection any further.

I just remembered that we have a custom 404 page.

http://www.howtogeek.com/404page

Geek Trivia: In 1921 The State of Virginia Sent London A Statue of George Washinton And? http://ow.ly/2DvESD

Geek Trivia: The Most Watched TV Series Finale In U.S. History Was For? http://ow.ly/2DtS4c