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 always perfect—there have been times when we have needed to recover our computers, only to find that Advanced Startup Options didn’t actually give us anywhere […]
Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade
How to Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 directly from Microsoft that’ll allow you to get up and running with Windows 10 within a few minutes. You can use the Media Creation Tool […]
How to Change Operating System Name at Startup in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 screen, where it shows you in a large heading the option to “Choose an operating system.” Each operating system that you have installed will be […]
How to Reset Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 department for as long as we can remember, and it only made matters worse when mobile operating systems came along and offered people a simple […]
How to Change Time to Display Operating Systems at Startup in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 seconds to choose which operating system you want to boot before it boots one up for you. You can adjust the timer on this to […]
How to Change Account Used to Get Insider Builds in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 possible to select which Microsoft account you want to receive the Insider updates. Here’s what you need to do to choose what Microsoft account you […]
How to Upgrade Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise [Tutorial]
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 the computer needing to reboot, and as such, they’ve acted on it so that it is no longer required. Upgrading to Windows 10 Enterprise is […]
How to Change Product Key in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 can be used so you can start using your version of Windows without it officially being activated. Microsoft also allowed for people to skip entering […]
How to Change Windows To Go Startup Options in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 on PCs. Windows 10 Home users are left out for now, since the idea of creating a bootable Windows To Go workspace is geared more toward […]
How to Properly Change Product Key of Office 2016/2013 [Tutorial]
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 Microsoft Office. This new approach is similar to how Android has become a company profiting billions annually, with that number expected to rise into the […]
How to Choose Default Operating System to Run at Startup in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 default, or you can change it and tell Windows 10 what OS you want it to select automatically. What’s more, you can change the time […]
How to Install Windows 10 from USB Flash Drive [Tutorial]
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 install the operating system very quickly. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a bootable USB flash drive that you can use to install Windows 10 with […]
How to Create Reset Recovery Image in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 data, it isn’t a true factory reset. On the other hand, if you choose the other option that does remove data, then it is. If […]
How to Access Advanced Startup Options (ASO) in Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 problems to do with your Windows operating system there and waiting in sizeable well-contrasted button format: no need to remember or enter any commands as […]
How to Refresh Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 options. One of those options can delete all of the data while the other option can keep all of the data, so you don’t lose […]
How to Activate Windows 10 [Tutorial]
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 against the Microsoft license terms agreements, which is one copy of Windows per computer unless you have an Enterprise license. There is more than one […]
How to Find Out If Windows License Type Is OEM, Retail, or Volume [Tutorial]
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 comes preinstalled with the Windows 10 operating system. You can not transfer these types of installations to another computer and nor can you resell them. […]
How to Download Windows 10 ISO File [Tutorial]
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 official way that Microsoft wants people to use. Resolution The Windows 10 ISO files aren’t easy to find online from the Microsoft website. Microsoft is […]
How to Link Microsoft Account to Digital License for Windows 10 Activation [Tutorial]
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 link a Microsoft account to the digital license. (The digital license that Microsoft is referring to here is what used to be known as the […]
How to Enable AHCI in Windows 10 and Windows 8 After Installation [Tutorial]
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 up the Windows operating systems to feature IDE instead. If you are one of those individuals who set up IDE when you first set up […]
How to Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade [Tutorial]
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 and wipe the files—all direct from the operating system itself. What Microsoft is referring to the push button reset is very similar to how we […]
How to Downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 8.1 or 7 [Tutorial]
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 you might not already know that Microsoft is offering a 30 day period to restore your machines back to the software version you had before […]