Learning Microsoft Office

Are you struggling to learn Microsoft Office? You don't need to take an expensive course from the local college. Don't get me wrong. Those classes are helpful and useful. But not everyone has the time to do a college course.
There is online training you can do at your own speed and learn just what you need to know.
GCFLearnFree.org is a great site for this. They have tutorials for MS Office versions 2000 to 2013. Just pick your version and go!
Make sure you check out other great tutorials this site has to offer!

BookGeek2 Takes on San Diego

BookGeek2 and the San Diego skyline.

At the Maritime museum exploring ships.

Mr. BookGeek2 had a work conference in Sunny California, so I tagged along. We stayed in Little Italy and rented bicycles.

Sitting in the big chair in little Italy.

The kissing couple statue by the Midway.

Walking through the Midway museum.

 We saw the Midway and Maritime museum, took the ferry to Coronado and caught a Padres game. And, on the way back after the game...we found the San Diego library!!!

The San Diego Library with a friend.

Your History on Google

Google tracks and analyzes everything you do on it. It's nice if you like to look back and find that site that you stumbled upon but can't find now. But the more you see on your history the more apparent that online privacy is a unicorn that is impossible to catch. It's disturbing how much Google and Facebook and Yahoo! Know about you just from your searches. Think it's a coincidence that you see adds for Ann Arbor, Michigan just as you start planning a trip? It's not. Big Brother Internet is watching and selling advertising specifically toward your interests.

But there is a way to delete some of your trail with Google. 

After you are logged into your Google account, go to http://Google.com/activity. This will show your history as far back as when you created your account. 

You can see map searches, Google searches, Google drive entries, YouTube videos, and even blog entries. You can set a date range to delete from. 

Or just delete certain searches.

You can find specific searches an delete those you select.

For more about deleting your Google history, go to Lifehacker.com

Summer is ticking away...

I love summer.
I love the fun programs I finally have the excuse to do.
I love the extra faces that I don't see during the school year.
I love the excitement over books.

But . . .

I do find myself counting down the days until it is over.

It is not for my lack of passion for summer programming. It is simply because I start to miss my sanity as time trails on.

Summer Decor

Our summer decor has finally been finished & I am super-excited.

This actually began as an idea for my teen space, but evolved over time as the need for a "less prizes" summer became my goal.

So these are now part of our children's area:

Start Menu and Task Bar stop working on Windows 10 FIXED!

Is your Windows 10 Computer giving you fits?
If your start menu and/or task bar have stopped working, it's frustrating just using your computer. You can't see your programs that you have minimized. You can't use the start menu to restart the computer. You can't see the clock. ARGH!
Before I found this fix, I had to create a new account and move files. OR if that didn't work, I had to reinstall windows completely.

Luckily, I found this fix today:

a.       On your keyboard there is a windows key (between CTRL and ALT) hit windows key + R. In the run box, type devmgmt.msc. This opens the device manager.
b.    Look for the category called Security Devices, click on the > next to it to expand the folder. You should see Microsoft’s TPM driver, called “Trusted Platform Module”, right click on it and select update.
c.  If the most current driver is installed--> right click on Trusted Platform Module and uninstall.
d. Restart computer.
e. The driver will reinstall itself and the start menu and task bar will be working again.


http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-security/creation-of-taskbar-notification-icon-failed/7f4ab113-3f9b-4efd-b101-866eda09a461

Windows 10 Dropping Wifi FIX

If you have upgraded your laptop to Windows 10 and have been frustrated by your device randomly disconnecting, I have a fix!
I have pushed Windows 10 image on several laptops and each time the laptop will randomly disconnect and I can't select a wifi to reconnect. In the past I would go to Network Settings-->Change Adapter settings--> Right Click on Wifi Adapter and Diagnose. This would eventually reconnect the wifi.

But now, with the help of a fellow techie, Dalton, I have a better solution. In your windows search box, type services. Right click on services and run as administrator. Find WLAN Autoconfig and right click-->properties. Make sure that it is set to Automatic and has started. Go to Recovery tab and make all failure lines = Restart the service. Click OK.

And your laptop will stay connected!

Yay!