Clicklock is the feature in Windows that allows you to use single-clicks to act as though it is giving you double click functionality with some features around the operating system. For example, you would usually have to double-click on a […]
Windows
Microsoft Windows is the desktop operating system that has captured the bulk of the market for decades thanks to its common availability across a beacon of computers brought out by various manufacturers. With a strong foundation headed by Bill Gates and features such as the famous Start Menu, Windows is in a good position to capitalize on progressive web apps and whatever other technological advancements the future demands from a desktop OS.
The Windows series of OSs are developed by Microsoft and are the most popular desktop OSs in the world. While Windows versions differ, each one has come with a graphical user interface and a desktop so users can view files and folders. Part of what makes these Windows OSs so popular is the wide variety of each version. For example, with Windows 10, you can buy Home, Pro, Education, and Enterprise versions. The idea is to offer something for people’s computers at home and the working professionals while coming in at different costs: naturally, the edition with the most features would be more expensive.
Windows OSs are very popular to use for businesses and companies because of their “Group Policies” that allow administrators to manage lots of different users, the user’s permissions and the overall computer’s configuration.
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Open Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 10
The Windows operating system comes with a set of Win32 console commands built in. For each of them, it means you can automate tasks and run scripts just by entering the commands into the command line. A lot of Windows’ […]
Enable/Disable Automount of New Disks and Drives in Windows
In Windows, the automount feature is enabled by default. This means Windows will automatically mount the new disks or drives that you create and thus make it possible for you to use them effective immediately once they’ve been created. Should […]
Reset Windows 10
Windows still doesn’t come with the best backup solution one could ask or, but one thing they have made up ground on is giving users the chance to troubleshoot common problems much easier. Desktop operating systems have struggled in this […]
Install Windows 10 Virtual Machine in VirtualBox
If you’ve got another operating system such as one of the Linux distros or MacOS running as your primary OS on a computer, you can install Virtual Box and run either a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 10 on […]
Change Time to Display Operating Systems at Startup in Windows 10
You can have a computer that has more than one operating system installed, and Windows 10 will offer you a way to choose which operating system you want to boot up at startup. By default Windows 10 offers you 30 […]
Change Account Used to Get Insider Builds in Windows 10
For the first little while, you didn’t have a choice of what Microsoft account you were to accept Windows Insider builds with. Now, ever since Windows Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10547 released, that has changed, and Microsoft now makes it […]
Upgrade Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise
As of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14352, you no longer have to reboot the computer when updating from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise. According to Gabriel Aul, Microsoft received a lot of user feedback about the annoyance of […]
Choose Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell on Power User Menu in Windows 10
In Windows 10 you can choose between having the Windows PowerShell or the Command Prompt on the Quick Links (Win+X) menu. As of Windows 10 build 14971, the default option is set to show the Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell […]
Change Product Key in Windows 10
For Microsoft to understand that your copy of Windows is genuine, they ask for you to activate the product key. This also prevents you from installing Windows on more computers that your license allows. There are generic product keys that […]
Open Power User Menu in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a menu often referred to as the Win+X or the Quick Links menu that offers a series of shortcuts to some of the most used places around the operating system. You can bring up the Win+X […]
Open Task Manager in Windows 10
Windows 10 has Task Manager—a feature you can get access to directly from your taskbar—to help manage your processes and process details, performance statistics, users, app history, and services. There have been some changes made to Task Manager since Windows […]
View Storage Usage of Drives in Windows 10
When you notice that a considerable amount of your drive space is used up you may wish to investigate what is taking up that space. That way you can choose to delete certain files that you no longer need and […]
Change ‘Turn Off Display After’ Time in Windows 10
Windows 10 lets you choose how long your display—and any other displays you might have connected to the computer—stay on before they turn off after the PC goes into idle. Once the computer’s display has turned off, you need to […]
Manage Power Plan Options in Windows 10
With the use of hardware system settings, the Windows 10 operating system can create a power plan to manage how your computer uses its power. These plans can be more geared toward offering your computer a longer battery life when […]
Clear Personal Data and Information from Cortana
Cortana is a virtual assistant created by Microsoft for the Windows operating system and its associated services such as the Invoke smart speaker, Microsoft Band, Surface Headphones, Xbox gaming console, iOS, Android, Windows Mixed Reality, and Amazon Alexa. The data […]
Sign In/Out of Cortana in Windows 10
Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant that is designed to help make your life more efficient than it could be just by using the operating system without her. Efficiency is always the main objective of operating systems as we move forward […]
Open Settings in Windows 10
The Settings application is your cornerstone in Windows 10. The idea behind it is to eventually completely replace the Control Panel that you’ve known from earlier Windows versions. The Control Panel still exists in Windows 10, but much of what […]
Change Windows To Go Startup Options in Windows 10
Windows To Go is a feature you can find on Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions. The point behind it is to offer an option for your compatible edition of Windows 10 to be bootable from a USB-connected external drive […]
Properly Change Product Key of Office 2016/2013
Today the Windows operating system has been a free install for many people, and Microsoft has instead turned its attention to profiting by getting people to pay for services that branch off of the operating system itself, such as with […]
Choose Default Operating System to Run at Startup in Windows 10
All versions of Windows 10 allow for you to have more than one operating system installed on the computer and it’ll automatically choose to run the operating system of your choice. Windows 10 will automatically choose an operating system by […]
Install Windows 10 from USB Flash Drive
If you’ve got multiple computers that you want to install Windows 10 on, you might prefer creating a USB flash drive that has the Windows 10 installation media on it so you can simply insert it into your computer and […]
Move Location of Game DVR Captures Folder in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a built-in tool for recording videos of computer games. It’s all part of the package found in the Game Bar which is part of the Xbox app and Game DVR feature. When you record a video […]
Create System Information File in Windows 10
You may at one stage or another want to upload a system information file to your manufacturer or a help site online so others can help diagnose and solve problems to do with your computer. The MSINFO.nfo is included in the […]
Exclude Folders from File History in Windows 10
Love it or hate it, Microsoft has made a lot of changes to the Windows operating system editions over the years. Most people would be inclined to agree that many of those changes were for the better while other changes […]
Turn On/Off Windows Features in Windows 10
The Windows 10 operating system comes with scores of features available to you without having to install anything extra, but only some of them are turned on by default when you start using your computer. Windows 10 has a hidden […]
Change Desktop/Windows Mixed Reality Input Switching in Windows 10
The following tutorial demonstrates how to change between the desktop PC and Windows Mixed Reality input when using a version of the Windows 10 oeprating system. Mixed reality is the result of blending the physical world with the digital world. […]
Flush DNS Cache in Windows 10
The DNS (Domain Name Resolver) cache, or sometimes called DNS resolver cache, is a record of all visits and attempted visits to websites from a computer that runs on a computer’s operating system. All commonly used operating systems—Windows, Mac, Linux […]
Turn On/Off ‘Show All Folders’ in Windows 10 Navigation Pane
File Explorer’s navigation pane is designed to show you the items and places that you visit the most so you can get to them easily. The navigation pane is always running down the left side of File Explorer’s window of […]
Open Control Panel in Windows 10
The Control Panel is a hub of applets that allow you to find all the settings that you need when using the Windows operating system. The Control Panel has been around since Windows 2.0 and with each new release of […]