Recent content by Mike Goodger

Thanks, some great ideas there, I am looking forward to trying them. The Desktop Shortcut sounds very attractive. Mike

Thanks, I'll ignore Outlook and Mail and stay with AOL App or Website, I can manage with that. Mike

Thanks, I'll grit my teeth and march obediently forward as a pawn in Microsoft's bigger game. In Windows 11 File Explorer, by pushing random buttons, I have got something satisfactory on to the screen, now I have to be careful not to lose it! Please see attached screenshot. But can I get it...

Windows 11 opens files into a "Tabs" layout, can I remove this "busybody habit"? Thanks, Mike

New Outlook in Windows 11 - can I just use Mail alone, as I could before? And how? Thanks, Mike Whoops - I have now read that "Mail" works badly with AOL email addresses, so my question, though of interest, loses the main reason I asked it.

Great, I'll try Proton Pass. Amazing that it is free! I don't see it as replacing Google Drive, I like the way Google Drive insures me against a theft-or-crash hardware disaster, and makes my stuff available to other platforms, wrapped round a versatile Word Processor, Google Docs. Thanks, Mike Mike

Lightbulb :bulb::bulb::bulb: . . . . Maybe it is time to delegate my password management. E.g. Proton Pass Free 2025 gets top marks from PCMag for best free password manager, overtaking Bitwarden, and it is said to be user-friendlier than Google's inbuilt password manager. It has apps for...

Thanks, that's a very clear summary and I am looking forward to setting it all up. Mike

Thanks, I think that you are saying that my one Google Account-and-Password keeps everyone except me out of my Google Drive files and folders (thereby making File Encryption with 7-Zip not strictly necessary) so that I have the only permission to view or to view-and-edit a file, unless I grant...

Thanks. My naive idea re "secret" (and I know NOTHING about this) is: 1. In Google Drive Online and Google Drive Offline (synced), there would be just one Small Protected Folder, typically containing up to 10 small Google Docs .DOCX files. Total storage unlikely to exceed 5GB. 2. Double...

I now have: On my new W11 laptop - Google Drive/Google Docs online and Google Drive/Google Docs offline - the latter shows itself as "My Drive", not as Google Drive Offline, a bit confusing!? I am using Google Docs online and offline and the 2 versions are syncing. I have put no "secret" files...

Ah good, I understand why I might need to convert a Google Docs .DOCX file into a WORD .DOCX file, though I thought that ".DOCX" was simply ".DOCX". My 2nd son (52) would be the main WORD USER recipient of Google Docs files from me, and these would be of a "notes" nature, not anything...

Thanks so much, I have not read all of your reply yet, but after my own pathetic struggle with the .TXT files, the idea of dumping the .TXT files COMPLETELY came as a flash of light and suddenly, I could see CLEARLY how .DOCX files were the obvious solution. Unfortunately my son (54) has just...

I am enjoying this - It is brilliant, we are spotting all the traps long before we walk into them!!! It's funny, I cannot enjoy using something where I cannot even choose the Font Style, because I just hate some of the Font Styles!!! I really like the idea of using Notepad++ for .TXT files in...

I am enjoying this - It is brilliant, we are spotting all the traps long before we walk into them!!! It's funny, I cannot enjoy using something where I cannot even choose the Font Style, because I just hate some of the Font Styles!!! I really like the idea of using Notepad++ for .TXT files in...