Windows 10 comes with its own Advanced Startup Options (ASO), a menu where you can recover, repair, and troubleshoot the Windows operating system. You may also hear Advanced Startup Options be referred to as the Boot Options menu. ASO isn’t […]
Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10
If you’ve got a computer that has yet to upgrade to Windows 10, you don’t have to rush out and buy a new computer to start using it. There’s the Media Creation Tool that you can download free of charge […]
Change Operating System Name at Startup in Windows 10
Windows 10 offers you the chance to boot up more than one operating system for the times when you have more than one installed on your computer. If more than one OS is installed, then you’ll see the Windows Boot Manager […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Create Reset Recovery Image in Windows 10
There are a few ways you can reset Windows 10 if you like. The new Settings application that Windows 10 offers has a couple of options from it for resetting. If you choose the one that resets without removing any […]
Access Advanced Startup Options (ASO) in Windows 10
The Advanced Startup Options menu was first introduced in Windows 8 editions and is still with us today in Windows 10 editions. Advanced Startup Options, or ASO for short, offers a hub of recovery options—everything you need to repair and troubleshoot […]
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 […]
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 […]
Find Out If Windows License Type Is OEM, Retail, or Volume
There are three main ways for you to buy Windows 10 and have it up and running. Some people have the OEM license type, while others have retail or volume licensing. The OEM license is when the computer you bought […]
Download Windows 10 ISO File
I want to install Windows 10 on a computer that doesn’t have it already available from the manufacturer’s disk or from a free Windows 10 upgrade that I missed out on. And I want to do it the legal and […]
Link Microsoft Account to Digital License for Windows 10 Activation
The Microsoft Windows Anniversary Update arrived exactly one year after the original release of the operating system, and it brought with it many great new features. Starting with Windows 10 build 14371, the operating system now has a new feature to […]
Enable AHCI in Windows 10 and Windows 8 After Installation
The Advanced Host Controller Interface, otherwise known as AHCI, makes Native Command Queuing and hot-swapping possible when you use SATA Serial-ATA host controllers. Most of the computers you get today come with AHCI available by default, but sometimes people set […]
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
The Windows 10 operating system is pretty stable, but if you do find yourself with a problem, then you can always try a push button reset, which allows you to reset Windows 10 without losing files or reset Windows 10 […]
Downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 8.1 or 7
Many people didn’t want to use the Windows Update option because they didn’t want to be stuck with the newer version just in case they didn’t like it or they found too many bugs which hindered their experience. Some of […]