Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
Do we still need third party browsers and free third-party antivirus software or are Edge and Windows Defender now good enough? It seems the consensus among a growing number of good judges is that Windows Defender and Edge Browser have improved so much over the […]
In older days it was necessary to clean out old files from time to time in order reclaim space on our small, slow hard drives. With Windows 10, this is no longer the case. Windows comes with a utility called Storage Sense bundled right in.
My main machine is set up with a 240GB Samsung SSD as the system drive, plus a 1TB HDD for all personal data. I am forever accessing that data drive, consistently and often, so decided to create a one-click shortcut that’s pinned to the Taskbar
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I came across an old microphone and hooked it up to my computer to test it out. The first program that came to mind was to use the sound recorder, assuming Windows 10 still included it. In the search bar, I started typing sound recorder
The Windows Clipboard has always been capable of holding only one item at a time, but that has all changed now with the debut of the new Clipboard Manager in Windows 19 version 1809. Follow the steps below to learn how: Press the Windows key
This actually happened to me — some time back now — but I thought I’d mention it just in case anyone else is experiencing this same issue. You plug in a USB flash drive, or USB external hard drive, and nothing happens,–nothing! The drive is
The Windows 10 updates service works fine for the most part but sometimes breaks. This can happen if your computer gets shut down unexpectedly due to a power outage. Sometimes, the Registry gets corrupted. Sometimes a Windows update file is corrupted or fails to install.
You can still upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free but you’ll need to act fast! The end of extended support for good old Windows 7 is just around the corner and while you can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free at the
Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. The patches include fixes for seven critical bugs — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants to take control over a Windows system with no
Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that
(Sorry, no screenshots with this one.) The Problem I recently had to reset a couple of Windows 10 computers. The first one, I ran through its paces and when I got to the screen to create an account, I noticed the option to create a
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Windows maintains a folder called WinSxS. (SxS stands for “Side by Side”.) This is an important system folder that contains information necessary for the proper operation of Windows. For example, this folder holds information about important system files in case corrupted files need to be
Last week I posted a Quick Tips article about Microsoft’s current marked propensity for sending us buggy updates. It includes a video by a former Microsoft employee explaining how all this shoddy business came to pass. Here it is for those of you who are
Windows 10 updates are bug-ridden these days. That has become the natural state of things and we have all settled into the “it is what it is” mentality accepting whatever may befall us. There was a time, some of you might remember, when this wasn’t
