Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
Last week’s Windows 10 Quick Tips – Lock Screen article generated an uproar. I was accused of writing “click-bait”, and was also told that I was being “short-sighted” where Windows Home edition users were concerned. Perhaps, rightfully so. I made the poor choice of excluding […]
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The Windows Lock Screen was introduced in the now infamous Windows 8 version. People seem to have mixed feelings about it– some like seeing a pretty picture when they start their computer, while others see it as an unnecessary annoyance which involves yet another click
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Since the beginning of time, about the time I was born, Windows has had a desktop icon system in place. You click on an icon and it miraculously opens a program, document, or just about anything else you want. Of course, you are already familiar
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Salvaging An Old Desktop Computer My neighbor threw away her old desktop computer which I decided to salvage for parts, if nothing else. I hooked it up to see if it was even working. It powered up. It tried to load what looked like Windows
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Well, you guys and gals certainly did not take long to vocalize where 1803 was concerned. In fact, the results were resounding! Well met. Due to the wonderful response we received for last week’s 1803 post, in this Quick Tips article I will be showing
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In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ˈkɛərɒn/ or /ˈkɛərən/; Greek χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. ~ Wikipedia Windows
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Windows Comes Of Age Most of us know the 33 year history of Microsoft Windows by now and with one or two forced errors down the years, in my opinion the launch of Windows 10 in 2015 became a defining moment for the world’s favourite
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Quick Access Some people love the Quick Access feature in File Explorer. Others, not so much. I don’t use File Explorer, so it isn’t an issue for me at all. For those of you who don’t like your recent activity to be announced to the
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Group Policy Editor Today’s Quick Tips article is going to be truly “quick”, but I hope it will also be a useful tip. Please note that only the Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows offer a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Group Policy
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Windows Libraries Last week, we talked a little bit about the Windows Library feature. If you are interested in reading it first, please go to this Windows 10 Quick Tips – Enabling Libraries page. In that article we briefly touched upon enabling Libraries, but didn’t say
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I’m pretty sure regular DCT readers would be well aware by now of my intense dislike for Windows 10’s forced automatic updates. It doesn’t seem to matter how much I change Windows 10’s update settings to try to prevent updates from downloading and interrupting my
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Libraries I am not sure about this, but I think Libraries first appeared in Windows 7. In that version, Libraries were displayed by default when you opened Windows Explorer (now known as File Explorer). Not so any more. For some reason, Microsoft decided not to
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Windows 10 Edition, Version, Build We should all understand by now that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows. When all the previous versions, up to and including Windows 7, have all lost Microsoft support, maybe we can merely call it Windows, without any
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Drag And Drop Sensitivity “Drag and Drop” has been with us since the first incarnations of graphical user interfaces. They have become a necessary part of any operating system. You left-click an icon and drag it to a new location. Simple, yes? Have you ever
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