Mat Diekhake

Windows 8 was the first version of the Windows operating system to give you the chance to manage the startup programs from within the Task Manager by providing you a dedicated Startup tab. From within that Startup tab now if […]

Aero Snap is a feature that was first introduced in Windows 7. Not many people used it back then, and most still don’t use it today either, but that’s mostly because people aren’t familiar with it yet. Aero Snap lets […]

The taskbar is the black bar (or perhaps transparent if you’ve selected the secondary option Windows 10 offers) you can see running along the bottom of your computer’s display after you sign in to either a local user account or […]

Windows 10 comes with the option of using Libraries. A library lets you group folders that might be stored in different locations around the operating system so you can create a new group without having to remove them from their […]

A lot of where the action happens in Windows 10 is from within the File Explorer. If you venture into the File Explorer nearly as much as we do, you might have noticed an option called “Libraries” or “Library” that […]

The first-ever release of the Microsoft Windows 10 technical preview offered three different languages for users to choose from, including English, Chinese, and Portuguese. It took a while, but many other languages were then added so most of the rest […]

Windows 10 comes with a Recent items list from the Start menu and a Frequent places list from the File Explorer. Both offer a similar thing where you can see stuff that you have previously used. There is one key […]

Windows 10 has somewhat of an emphasis put on notifications. Today’s millennials are often referred to as the connected generation, and those connections continue to mound up still today, nearly a decade on from when people started getting used to […]

The Action Center is new to Windows 10 and controls most of the notifications that you see. The notifications are what is called “toast notifications, ” and they can alert you to things that are on your Calendar, other applications, […]

Earlier versions of Windows operating systems that people loved like Windows 7 came with the search box available from the Start menu, meaning you needed to click on the Start menu before it becomes available to use. The more modern […]

Throughout Windows’ history, Microsoft preferred to defer antivirus protection to third-parties, so it was common to use antivirus from a company that wasn’t owned or operated by Microsoft. Windows Defender originally began as just spyware protection; however, with the release […]

Windows 10 comes with a feature called disk write caching. It’s a feature that you get the choice between enabling and disabling, but unlike most of the other articles that we write-up, you should make sure you thoroughly research what […]