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. Cortana can understand your natural voice and what you’re saying so you don’t need to type words […]
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How to Manage Optional Features in Windows 10
The Windows operating system comes with essential features that it thinks most people will find useful right off the bat. But there are also some optional features that you can enable if you like. These optional features are not likely to appeal to everyone—many of them are intended for business networks and servers—but they are […]
How to Install/Uninstall Windows Media Player in Windows 10
The Windows Media Player is a favorite choice of many Windows users. It used to be the default video player for many years, which is why so many people have come to know it so well. Windows Media Player allows you to play audio and video from a local computer or from the internet. Additionally, […]
How to Turn On/Off Auto Save Photos and Videos to OneDrive in Windows 10
OneDrive is Microsoft’s answer to your storage woes: if you don’t have enough space to store pictures and video on your computer’s hard drive then you can send it up into the Microsoft-owned cloud storage company OneDrive that also comes fully integrated into Windows 10. OneDrive uses a very limited amount of resources and runs […]
How to Rename File in Windows 10
The Windows 10 operating system offers you a variety of ways for you to change the name of a file: keyboard shortcuts, Properties dialogs, context menus, File Explorer ribbons, and even the command line and Windows PowerShell as well. There are a few things to note before you can understand how to rename a file […]
How to Find Windows Media Player and Set as Default in Windows 10
The default media player in Windows 10 is very good. It is similar to the other media player options out there but comes with some improvements. For instance, if you’re someone who likes to click and drag the scrollbar to fast forward through videos, the new default media player makes it much easier to do—it […]
How to 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 directly from Microsoft that’ll allow you to get up and running with Windows 10 within […]
How to Remotely Lock Windows 10 Device with Find My Device
Lots of people aren’t too chirpy about giving away privacy to Microsoft when it comes to using their operating systems such as Windows 10. However, if ever there was a time those people might be willing to look the other way, it may be knowing that allowing location services to operate can help retrieve a […]
How to Add/Remove Default Items on Power User Menu in Windows 10
If you want to use Windows as efficiently as possible, then you’ll need to get to know the Power User menu. Included in Windows 8 and Windows 10, the Power User menu is the quickest way you can get access to many of the main management, configuration and other tools that a Windows power user […]
How to Hide/Show Windows Security Notification Area Icon in Windows 10
Windows Defender started off as spyware protection in Windows XP. By Windows 8 it had turned into reliable full-fledged antivirus for your computer. In Windows 10 many people regard Windows Defender to be up there with the best protection your Windows operating system can have. Not long after the release of Windows 10, Windows Defender […]
How to Open Windows Security in Windows 10
Windows Defender has been developed by Windows ever since Windows XP. Back in those days, it wasn’t anything more than a spyware solution, and you had no choice but to look for alternatives for an antivirus that would keep your computer safe from all malware threats. As good an operating system as XP was, it […]
How to Automatically Finish Setting Up a PC After an Update or Restart
When you hear critics for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, you’ll likely hear about untimely updates as being one of the issues that they’re yet to get right. Microsoft once would give you an option to “Update and shutdown” whenever you want to shutdown the computer and there was an update that Microsoft wanted to install. […]
How to Change Video Playback Settings in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a built-n video platform. Many of the applications that you get preinstalled with Windows 10—Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, Microsoft Edge, Movies & TV, Photos, et cetera—as well as third-party applications that you install from the Microsoft Store use this video platform. For both apps that come preinstalled in Windows and […]
How to Enable/Disable Sync Your Settings in Windows 10
Most people prefer using a Microsoft account because it allows for them to open the user account in another location and expect to find all settings the same way they had them before on another computer. This includes the sharing of files through OneDrive so you can have all the same pictures, movies, videos, so […]
How to Choose Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell on Power User Menu in Windows 10
How to 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 distros, et cetera—have a DNS cache working by default. Like all operating systems, Windows stores […]
How to Run Files in File Explorer as Administrator
Choose What Control Panel Applets Get Shown in Windows 10
The Control Panel is still around in Windows 10, and it has some features that you won’t find available from the new Settings application. For the most part, you’ll find many of the same features between the Control Panel and the Settings app, and at times you can begin your journey in the Settings app […]
How to Open and Use Registry Editor in Windows 10
If you want to make changes to the Windows operating system, one of the places you’ll venture into the most is the Registry, and the way you can do that is by using the Registry Editor application. The good thing about the Registry is that you don’t need to have a particular edition of Windows […]
Create Ubuntu Virtual Machines with Hyper-V Quick Create
For years Microsoft has offered a reasonably easy way for people to run more than one operating system. Since the birth of Windows 10, users have been able to turn on an optional feature from the settings called Hyper-V that allows you to run another operating system on your Windows 10 computer in a virtual […]
Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10
Up until now, Microsoft has delivered .NET Framework updates every month or so via the Windows Update service and other distribution channels. That’s all about to change. The new .NET Framework updates will roll out as Cumulative Updates, alongside the regular Windows 10 Cumulative software updates. As of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and Windows Server 2019, you can […]
Apply Default User Picture For All Users in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a default avatar for all users. As far as default avatars go, this one isn’t too bad to look at, being just white lines representing the outline of a human body and then a gray background to go with it. Windows 10’s default profile picture is better than some other famous […]
Enable or Disable Tabs (Sets) in Windows 10
Windows 10’s April 2018 Update, codenamed and known as the Redstone 4 update for the months leading up to its release, brought about heaps of new features. Some of the highlights include the Timeline feature for showing activity lists, Nearby sharing for easy wireless file sharing, a diagnostic data viewer for seeing what your operating […]
Reset Folder View for All Folders in Windows 10
Those who have been using Windows for many years will appreciate the simplified version of File Explorer that comes in Windows 10. Things are certainly easier to sort through in File Explorer now, but there are also ample ways that you can customize what you see coming from File Explorer as well that most wouldn’t […]
Change File Attributes in Windows 10
For years now you’ve been able to change the file attributes from the Command Prompt in Windows by using the “Attrib” command. You can now change the file attributes directly from File Explorer and getting access to the file’s Properties dialog. File attributes are bits of metadata associated with the files your PC that get […]