Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
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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Solid State Drives Solid State Drives (SSDs) are very popular these days, and for good reason. After the first hiccups expected in any new technology, things have settled down and SSDs are now as reliable as mechanical Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). As I’m sure you
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Driver Store Microsoft introduced the Driver Store in the Windows Vista version and it has been with us ever since. The Driver Store contains all Windows and third-party drivers that are trusted by Microsoft and are installed on your drive. The problem, and there always
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Ransomware Ransomware is a nasty piece of work. The bad guys hijack your computer, encrypt all your files, and tell you they’ll sell you a decryption key for a certain amount of money. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll actually get the key. It turns out
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System Tray The System Tray is what we used to call what is now officially known as the Notification Area. That has too many syllables and sounds too high-brow for my tastes, so System Tray, it is. The System Tray is that part of the
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What Are Drivers? Put simply, a “driver” in computer parlance is a bit of software that allows your operating system to communicate with a bit of hardware. Examples would be your graphics card, audio devices, a mouse, a keyboard, your webcam, and any other peripheral
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System Protection The System Protection feature has been in place since the release of the unpopular Windows Millennium Edition. It’s purpose is to provide a very basic backup of the Windows Registry, along with driver states and some important system files. Accessing this feature is
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Night Light The Night Light concept is not a new thing. It’s been around for quite a long time now, and much longer than Microsoft would have you believe, having brought up the subject as some sort of innovation. Wrong. There are many third-party solutions
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