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How To Change Your Default Mail Program To Outlook For Windows 10 (Using Classic Shell)

Tim Summers
How To

When you install Microsoft Office onto your computer or laptop, Outlook should become your default email software. However, sometimes Windows will forget about Outlook and change back to a different program such as Windows Mail. Use these instructions if your computer is set to display the Classic shell START button.

How To Change Your Default Mail Program To Outlook For Windows 10

Tim Summers
How To

When you install Microsoft Office onto your computer or laptop, Outlook should become your default email software. However, sometimes Windows will forget about Outlook and change back to a different program such as Windows Mail.

How to thoroughly uninstall AVAST Cloudcare Antivirus from Windows 10

Tim Summers
How To

Sometimes people find it necessary to completely uninstall AVAST Cloudcare Antivirus software from Windows 10.

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Microsoft Discontinues Support for Internet Explorer 11 Forcing QuickBooks Desktop to Switch to a Custom Internal Browser

Tim Summers
Technology Alert

Critical Alert. Potential security risk due to end of support for your QuickBooks browser. QuickBooks Desktop currently uses the Internet Explorer 11 web browser for displaying some of its reports and other screens within the QuickBooks software. Microsoft has announced that it will end support for Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022. This has forced Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, to rebuild their QB Desktop software to use a custom web browser other than Internet Explorer 11. Users should be seeing Critical Alert pop-ups with QuickBooks and/or receiving email notifications.

WINDOWS 11 is Almost Here!!

Tim Summers
Industry News

Windows 11 is almost here! Should I upgrade my computer to Windows 11?

Chromium Profile Will Be Deleted During Upgrade

Tim Summers
Technology Alert

Users report losing their Chromium profile settings and sync access during recent Chromium upgrade. This is not a bug!!

Windows 10 KB5000802 Crashes PC with Stop Code APC_INDEX_MISMATCH

Tim Summers
Technology Alert

Microsoft recently released an March 2021 update named KB5000802 (or KB50000808) which causes some Windows 10 computers to crash to a Blue Screen of Death with stop code: APC_INDEX_MISMATCH. Some Diversified customers have reported that any attempt to print, even a Windows test print from the printer driver, will cause their Windows 10 PC to crash.

Microsoft Updates Breaking Some Windows 10 Computers

Tim Summers
Technology Alert

Some users report that Windows Updates KB4579311 and KB4577671, released by Microsoft on October 13, 2020, are breaking their Windows 10 computers.

Adobe Schedules End of Support For Adobe Flash Player

Tim Summers
Technology Alert

Adobe has scheduled the end of their Adobe Flash Player support for December 31, 2020. Diversified recommends uninstalling Adobe Flash Player from your computer. There is no need to install an alternate software program.

 

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