If you were one of the unlucky ones who upgraded to Windows 10 only to find there was no sound coming out of the speakers attached to the computer at all, then you might have needed to spend a significant […]
Windows 10
Windows 10 is the successor to Windows 8.1. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and then later to retail on retail on July 29, 2015.
Windows 10 was a more modern take on the much-loved Windows 7 operating system, complete with a traditional Windows Start Menu. Released when Windows struggled to gain traction as a mobile OS, it was sublime for desktops.
Know Where Windows Spotlight Photos Were Taken
The Spotlight is a feature that Apple introduced to their operating systems many years ago now. They named their feature Spotlight because it is a magnifying glass that when you click on it, it then brings up a search box. […]
Pause Windows Update Download with Command Prompt in Windows 10
Windows 10 does lots of things right. It seems as though most of the mistakes that the Windows developers made from the previous version of the operating system have finally been rectified. If there’s one annoyance left on many people’s […]
Change Default Windows Video Player in Windows 10
VLC is one of the world’s most popular open source video players. It is available on Windows, Max OS X, Linux and most other well-known desktop operating systems for you to have installed so you can watch your video content. […]
View Recently Used Files from Programs in Windows 10
One of the ways you can become more efficient with your Windows 10 operating system is by using the Quick Access menu. The Quick Access menu is available from File Explorer by default. It gives you the chance to view […]
Change Number of Items in Jump Lists with Windows 10
When people design an operating system for a computer one of the things they continually try to achieve is user happiness by giving them features that are convenient and set out in a way that makes their lives more efficient. […]
Disable Lock Screen on Windows 10 Anniversary Update with LockScreenGone
To ramp up security and to get people accustomed to working with user accounts, Microsoft included a lock screen in the Windows 10 operating system. Those who didn’t like having the lock screen were then able to remove it from […]
Easily Connect to Another PC and Use It in Windows 10 without Needing IP Address
If you have ever tried remotely connecting to another computer at your friend’s house from a Windows operating system, you might have found out the built-in app that helps you do it but when you tried to pull it off […]
Play 360-degree VR Video for Free in Windows 10 with GOM Player
On Windows operating systems, there is no shortage of media players that you can use to play videos. One of the new advancements in media technology of late is the ability to shoot footage taken that offers a full 360-degree […]
Download Google Photos App for Windows 10
Google is most well known for its search engine that gets more hits than any other in the world—and the competition isn’t even really close at all. If you own a website like us and care about getting traffic from […]
Clear Print Queue in Windows 10
So your Mom’s on the computer upstairs and she is doing something for your Dad’s job because your Dad can’t type and for some reason, she can’t get the printer working. So the next thing she does is press the […]
Delete Built-In Windows 10 Stock Apps without Using PowerShell
We write a lot of guides for mobile operating systems and thus there isn’t much we don’t already know about most of them. One of the things that cause grievances in people about the mobile operating system is the inability […]
Pin Email Account to Start Menu in Windows 10
Windows 10 doesn’t get enough praise for its ease of use, efficiency and profound brilliance that enables us to remember clearly how to do things far easier than with previous versions of the Windows operating system when released. One of […]
Add/Remove Volume Icon to Taskbar in Windows 10
The Windows 10 operating system gives us the chance to customize it in many ways. In many respects, it is the opportunity to adjust many settings that make the Windows 10 OS one of the best operating systems yet from […]
Change Default Printer in Windows 10
Windows computers are easy to use, but every once in a while you can get stuck with something. That is particularly the case with earlier versions of the Windows operating system. One of the things that used to be an […]
Remove Login Password in Windows 10 After Waking Computer from Sleep
In the last couple of versions of the Windows operating system, Microsoft has focused a large amount on user accounts—in particular, making sure you all have one. There are security reasons for this as well as practical reasons. For many […]
Change “Sent from Mail for Windows 10” Signature in Windows 10 Mail
The Windows 10 Mail that comes as the default option connected to your operating system is connected to Live or Hotmail if you had an email account with Microsoft before they made the change over to using Live instead of […]
Transfer User Profiles from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10
A large number of people who used to own computers that came with a version of Windows never upgraded to newer versions of Windows. Instead, they just kept the computer with the same version of Windows and updating to newer […]
Disable Flash Player in Microsoft Edge and Uninstall It in Windows 10
The Adobe Flash Player is one of the most popular plugins available on Windows computer because it has such a long history of being a part of the Windows operating system. Many videos require you to have the Flash Player […]
Disable Flash Player in Google Chrome and Uninstall It in Windows 10
The Adobe Flash Player is one of the more controversial programs that you will run on a computer. Many people think they can’t live without it because the sources that they want to watch videos from online will not run […]
Reset Windows 10 PC Without Removing Data
If you go back to the days when Windows XP was the latest operating system to have running on your computer, you might remember it almost needing a certificate three in Information Technology just to do things like resetting a […]
Rotate Images in Windows 10 File Explorer
One of the biggest advancements we’ve made with technology over the year is the way we have altered the way we take pictures. Gone are the days when the average consumer spends money on an expensive camera now that we […]
Reset Windows 10 to Its Factory Settings
No matter what device you have in front of you, the chances are that it comes with the opportunity for you to reset it to the default factory settings. People often choose to reset operating systems to the factory settings […]
Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows 10
One of the immediate changes you will notice in Windows 10 is the way the options to adjust the screen brightness have changed. Back in earlier days, we would just click the button on the monitor, but now there are […]
Backup/Export Passwords in Microsoft Edge Browser in Windows 10
A modern web browser that competes with the best of today’s standard is capable of making your life much easier than just being a portal to the internet that you want to browse. One of the key features that all […]
Reset Groove Music in Windows 10
If you’ve been using Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system for a while, you might have tried to play some music, and it has opened with Groove Music. Formerly known as Zune Music (and before that Xbox Music), Groove is Microsoft’s […]
Remove Windows Defender Permanently in Windows 10
With the rise of free anti-virus offers and no shortage of malware online for Windows operating systems to be wary of, Microsoft created the Windows Defender software to help owners of Windows PCs fight the battle between good and evil. […]
Find Voice Recorder App Saved Files in Windows 10
Windows 10 editions come with plenty of useful features to play with and many that are new and that we have not seen before in earlier versions of Windows operating systems. One of those features that is available is the […]
Enable/Disable Email Notifications in Action Center in Windows 10
The Windows 10 Action Center aims to bring the brilliance of a mobile notification center to the desktop environment so you can be kept as up to date from your home computer as you would be from that beautiful bit […]
Add/Remove File Explorer Icon from Windows 10 Start Menu
One of the most important ways for Microsoft to get people into updating software and operating systems is by offering new features that the old ones do not have. After doing that lots over the years, they had made changes […]