Operating Systems

Windows XP and Windows 7 were phenomenal operating systems for their time, and I know some people who still prefer to use them, or at least still dream of the more updated versions having features taken from them. But one […]

If you are starting to suffer from high memory problems when using Windows 10, they can plague your computer, for some while in fact, until you find the source of the problem. Every time you run an application or program […]

If there was one part of the Windows 10 operating system that people use all the time and yet didn’t offer a great user experience when it first came out it was the Photos application. The Photos app has seen […]

The Windows 10 operating system stores your Pictures folder in your user accounts folder. For instance, on my personal computer, that path would located at C:\Users\Mathew\Pictures on my C: drive. That same Pictures folder is always much more easily access, […]

SSH clients allow users to connect to computers that are running on an SSH server. While most people seem to be familiar with SSH from Linux distributions, it has always been possible to connect to an SSH server from the […]

One of the age-old problems that many of us face with devices, and even desktop computers, is not having enough hard drive space to store data. Far too many of us feel like we don’t have as much money as […]

Managing wireless networks in Windows 10 is now easier than any of the earlier versions of Windows. Anything directly related to the wireless networks has been some of the more common stuff for people to need to fiddle with around […]

Believe it or not, there are tools out there that are some of the most powerful to use for the Windows operating system, are made by Microsoft, and yet, are not already installed on your computers when you start using […]

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are becoming ever more popular as time goes on so you can prevent websites from snooping when you browse, use public WiFi securely, get access to region-restricted websites such as torrents that have been blocked by […]

One of the questions people often have when it comes to using computers is what happens if a user were to lose their password. It’s almost as common as people wondering how hackers actually manage to hack stuff. There are […]

One of the ways Microsoft offers you the chance to update to Windows 10 is by using the Update Assistant. The Update Assistant is a small program that only takes a few seconds to download (around 5 MBs in size) […]

The most powerful place in the File Explorer is “This PC.” It is the home to your libraries, and you should think of it as your hub. The context menu from This PC also reflects this, where you’ll see some […]

The Windows 10 operating system comes with quite a few different context menus. A context menu appears when you right-click an item from a particular place. For example, you can right-click files and folders from within the File Explorer, and […]

A search index is basically anything that is indexed by the Cortana search field, found in the bottom lefthand side of the taskbar, not far away from the Start button. Google search has an index of its own that most […]

It’s possible to set up a local domain controller on a Microsoft server to have a server computer. A local domain controller can be set up within a Windows domain. A domain, in Microsoft’s sense of the word, can make […]

Many of the computers you’ll find on the shelves these days come with multi-core CPUs. CPUs with multiple cores can be seen when you take out the CPU, and you notice is divided into different sections. This is different than […]

Encryption is a feature that has gotten more familiar with Windows users as time has gone on. There are two types of encryption that a computer can have: full drive encryption and single file or folder encryption. As the name […]

Something you should think about doing moving forward through the next few years is starting to encrypt your hard drives (I’ll assume you already know what a hard drive is in this article—but if not, you all have one on […]

Some users are complaining about the taskbar auto-hide feature not working in versions of the Windows 10 operating system and some of the guides out there are now updated and difficult to understand, hence why we thought we’d put this […]

There are two types of IP addresses that a computer can have assigned to it: private and public. The private IP address gets its name because it isn’t able to be seen by anyone on the internet, they literally can’t […]

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are becoming evermore popular as time goes on so you can prevent websites from snooping when you browse, use public WiFi securely, get access to region-restricted websites such as torrents that have been blocked by your […]

There are a few common places around the Windows 10 operating system that allow for you to run some commands. The Command Prompt being probably the most well known, Windows PowerShell being another. The Command Prompt has been around since […]

The Quick Links menu is a menu that’s accessible from the Start menu or by pressing a two key combination on your keyboards. It brings up a bunch of various links like the Event Viewer, Device Manager, Command Prompt, Task […]