Windows 10 gives you a Microsoft Edge web browser icon available from the taskbar at the bottom of the computer’s display. You can also right-click on that Edge icon and have it removed from the taskbar if you prefer by unpinning it. If you would prefer the Microsoft Edge icon be on your desktop rather […]
About Mathew Diekhake
About the author: Mathew is a former Microsoft student and became a certified server administrator. He later decided to try his hand at writing much of what he learned instead. You can find some of his work at <a rel="”nofollow”" href="https://dottech.org/author/mdiekhake/">dotTech</a>, a lot of the rest here at <a rel="”nofollow”" href="https://consumingtech.com/author/administrator/">ConsumingTech</a>, and more scattered around the web. If he isn't writing online, he's probably reading another Pynchon book on Kindle.
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How to Change Desktop Background in Windows 10
Windows operating systems have always had pretty compelling desktop backgrounds already set up for you as soon as you create an account. Some of you might remember the “Bliss” desktop wallpaper that came with Windows XP and ended up being quite a big deal—both financially for Charles O’Rear who took the photo and for Microsoft who managed to capture […]
How to Track Windows 10 Computer if It Gets Stolen or Lost
The first November after Windows 10 was released saw an update that included a new feature that helped people track their lost computers called “Find My Device.” Much like the feature that was first around in smartphones, Find My Device uses the computers GPS signal to precisely locate where your lost or stolen computer has […]
How to Add or Remove Sleep from Power Menu in Windows 10
All computers running on Windows 10 have a Power menu. What the Power menu offers varies between devices. If you have a laptop, then your Power menu might contain a Hibernation mode. If you have a desktop PC, then your copy of Windows 10 probably doesn’t, and you’ll just have the options to shut down […]
How to Create “This PC” Shortcut in Windows 10
If you use the File Explorer at all, you’ll likely know all about the “This PC” area. By default, your File Explorer window opens up to the “This PC” area without you needing to do anything. It offers you the most common folders used: documents, downloads, pictures, music videos, music and the desktop, as well […]
How to Change Mouse Pointers in Windows 10
The era of touchscreen devices is among us now with many devices that run on Windows 10 having screens that allow you to navigate around the operating system by using your finger if you want, just like if you were to be using a tablet. Still, there are lots of things worth doing online or […]
How to Sign Out of Windows 10
At the beginning of Windows 10 there used to be lots of features that required a Microsoft account for them to work: setting up OneDrive, using the Windows Store to download apps, syncing your settings, using Cortana, utilizing the new family members feature with new user accounts to personalize settings, using certain feature of the […]
How to Check for and Install Windows Updates in Windows 10
Microsoft now rolls out Windows updates over the air automatically, so you don’t have to accept or deny updating at any time. Usually rolling out software updates comes at a bit of a risk because with new updates can come bugs until they are identified and fixed. You’re a lot more likely to find the […]
How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10
A clean boot is when you boot the Windows operating system with only the minimal amount of drivers and startup programs. When you begin using Windows 10, you’ll have a few startup programs running by default: they include your Windows Defender antivirus, a few system applications and startup processes that Windows needs to work. As […]
How to Refresh Windows 10
You can refresh Windows 10 if you’re suffering from software related problems, if you are noticing bugs that you can’t fix, or if you just want to remove data. When you go to refresh Windows 10, you get given two options. One of those options can delete all of the data while the other option […]
How to Set Wireless Network as Metered/Non-Metered Connection in Windows 10
Few things associated with your devices are as essential as maintaining a working internet connection. A working internet connection empowers users to be able to browse the internet without any drawbacks, install Windows software updates, as well as install updates to applications and programs that may be installed on the operating system already. If you’ve […]
How to Enable/Disable Hibernate in Windows 10
Over the years, there have been three main power options to use from a Windows operating system. They are: turning it off, putting it to sleep or using hibernate. Turning the computer all the way off is what people do when they don’t plan on coming back to it anytime soon; it is the one […]
How to Change Color of Start Menu, Taskbar, and Title bar in Windows 10
It seems as though Microsoft has come to the realization that people rate images pretty high up on the “how do things look” scale. What we mean by that is if you don’t have pictures, then people aren’t going to find it very appealing—kind of like the lack of enthusiasm for the front of our […]
How to Turn On/Off Driver Updates in Windows 10
Microsoft has created Windows 10 in such a way that Windows Update automatically installs the drivers when they are ready to download, so you never have to worry about being out of date with anything technical that the average user doesn’t want to have to worry about when they sit down to use their PCs. […]
How to Create System Restore Points in Windows 10
One of the features that has been with Windows operating systems for a long time is the System Restore. With it you can rewind time and go back to an earlier day before you developed a problem that you might have been having on the computer as of today. Doing that means the problem will […]
How to Enable/Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options in Windows 10
Windows operating systems used to have an Advanced Boot Options screen that you could get access to by pressing the F8 key at the right time during the boot up process. It used to be something that technicians and people who knew their way around a Windows operating system pretty well would do. Microsoft has […]
How to Use “Pin to taskbar” to Pin Folder and Drives in Windows 10
While some things have come and gone and come again over the course of time in a version of Windows, one thing that has stayed the same perpetually is the taskbar that you see at the bottom of the screen. There have been some feature variations to do with the taskbar, but the taskbar itself, […]
How to Set Different Screen Resolutions for Dual Monitors in Windows 10
The motives for aspiring to have multiple monitors setup on the computer are not invariably straightforward enough for men and women to be able to know what it is all about off the top of their heads. Having more than one monitor on a workstation (or dual monitors as other people will know them commonly […]
How to Turn On/Off Cortana Personalization in Windows 10
Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to Siri, only where Siri has shined up until now for mobile devices, Cortana is available for Windows operating systems on mobile as well as laptops and desktop PCs. Apple’s newest version of operating system for Mac’s, macOS Sierra, does also include Siri so Apple users can have Siri from laptops […]
How to Hide or Show Taskbar on Multiple Displays in Windows 10
The Windows 10 operating system gives you the chance of using multiple computer displays all connected to the same motherboard. The taskbar usually will be displayed at the bottom of each screen, so you don’t have a monitor with one and the other without because that would look kind of weird. That said, there are […]
How to Change Product Key in Windows 10
Every edition and version of Windows 10 needs to be activated before it can run on your computer. Activating makes sure that you are legally installing your copy and that it isn’t exceeding the legal limit of installs per the license agreement. Depending on how you activate, there might come a time when you need […]
How to Activate Windows 10
Each copy of Windows 10 needs to be activated on a computer before it will run. The activation is so that you can prove that your edition of Windows 10 is a genuine one and not stolen or already used/goes against the Microsoft license terms agreements, which is one copy of Windows per computer unless […]
How to Turn On/Off Airplane Mode in Windows 10
Airplane mode was designed to help you instantly turn off your WiFi when you’re onboard an airplane. It can be used anywhere to cut the WiFi connection, but most people don’t think about turning off their WiFi for anything other than to abide by airplane rules. Those rules are becoming looser as the years go […]
How to Add and Manage New User Accounts in Windows 10
You always get given a user account when you first setup Windows 10. That account is given the administrative permissions so you can manage the Windows 10 operating system without restrictions. When someone else wants to work on the computer, they can use that same account you already have, or you can generate a new […]
How to Turn On/Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10
System protection is a feature that Windows 10 has so you don’t lose data if something goes askew in your operating system. System protections allows you to rewind the clock and restore an older snapshot of the computer by doing a system restore. It’s well documented that system protection isn’t always turned on for every […]