Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
The Windows 10 interface has changed a lot since earlier days. Some are nice new additions and others, not so much. One of the changes I don’t like is the tiny, little, almost hidden scroll bars, particularly in the so-called Apps. If you don’t have […]
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Windows manages all the processes running on your computer. It controls how much memory is allocated to each process and it also controls how much time is devoted to each process in turn. Sometimes, you might want to change the priority of a process if
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It’s over a year since I abandoned the shop and moved lock, stock and barrel into my alternative workshop and I’m pleased to report that the move has had very little negative impact on my work. If anything, my customers have been very supportive, even
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Many new and exciting features were added when Windows XP was envisioned and Prefetch was one of them. There were no Solid State Drives (SSDs) available at the time and we were all stuck with relatively slow Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), aka, spinners. The differences
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Computer jargon, as in any field of study, is complicated by the fact that some “things” can go by many names. Today’s discussion about DPI settings is no different. Dots Per Inch (DPI) refers to how many “dots” there are per inch on your monitor.
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Windows loves to help you. It will send you targeted advertising because you will like it, it will give you games that you need that you didn’t know you needed, and it will offer up advice on how to make your computing experience more wonderful
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EasyCAP I’ve been fooling around with TV capture devices on and off for years now. This allows you to hook up your cable/satellite to your computer. I’ve rediscovered this one recently called EasyCAP that I purchased a few years ago. I decided to hook it
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System Tray Clock Windows 95 was the last version of Windows to display the seconds in the System Tray clock. Microsoft’s reasoning when they removed this feature was, since system memory was limited at that time (measured in megabytes), that continually updating the seconds put
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One thing that Microsoft Windows does not manage well is windows. You can move all your windows into positions that work well for you, resize them to your liking and next time Windows opens the windows they’ll not be where you left them. It’s as
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It used to be, in older times when we actually paid for our operating systems, that imposed advertising would not have been tolerated. Nowadays it has become the standard and regardless of whether we have to pay for our systems, the abusive advertising practices in
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I am sure you have seen people with two or three or more monitors on their computer. Well, maybe on a TV show. Two is easy with a laptop. Just plug a second one into the VGA port on an older laptop or the HDMI
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My system is getting a bit flaky so I’m torn between a reset, reinstall or wait for the next update. Sometimes you can clear up your problems by creating a new account. So here’s how to create a new account in Windows 10. Start typing
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Ever since Windows 95 we have been able to press F8 while the computer was starting and boot into Safe Mode. We could elect to boot with or without networking and even to boot to a DOS-like command prompt–C:\. Enter Windows 10 and the old
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Left to its own devices Windows will happily run all sorts of stuff in the background on your PC. A lot of the time you might not even realize it’s happening. One important thing to consider, however, is that all these background Apps use up
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