Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
The other day a customer gave me a laptop for repair, saying that her daughter had dropped it and it would no longer boot. The laptop in question is an HP Stream model 14-AX022LA of meagre specifications that includes a Celeron dual-core CPU, 4GB of […]
Windows 10 Users Get Good News Windows has just released good news for those who want to keep Windows 10 a while longer and also for some users who could not upgrade because of a “Compatibility Hold”. Keeping Windows 10 If you are one of
Understanding DNS DNS stands for Domain Name System a protocol that is set by your internet provider. DNS is responsible for translating our human expressions like www.google.com into a unique IP address that computers use to communicate over the internet. Whenever you or a program
How To Keep Your Printer On It has been a while since I purchased a new printer and was very annoyed when it would continually go into sleep mode. Having to turn on the printer before printing remotely from my mobile devices and even from
Many of us use the Calculator on our Windows computer. Did you know that you can change the Windows calculator theme? That is right! If you want to change over to the dark side, this article will show you how it is done. We all
The Windows Recovery Environment provides several options that play an integral role in helping to repair a misbehaving operating system. Windows sets up the Recovery Environment on a separate hidden partition (visible only via Disk Management) to help safeguard against accidental user modifications that could
If you ever want to reassign the left and right mouse buttons then I will show you how. This came up a few days ago when I was working on my laptop and main computer at the same time. I don’t know what happened, but
Copilot is an AI-driven app, with similar functionality to ChatGPT, that is already available in some Windows 11 builds and will soon be rolled out to all Windows 11 users. I believe Copilot will also eventually be rolled out to Windows 10 users. First off,
I was setting up my mom’s new computer this week and noticed that the second hard drive was much bigger. The smaller one had the Windows operating system which is the C: drive but the other one had nothing on it. So I wanted to
There is a growing demand for Microsoft to extend support for Windows 10, largely initiated by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). Support for Windows 10 is currently set to expire in October 2025, meaning that the operating system will not receive any security updates
Here are four Windows tips you may or may not know about. If the latter, you might find them handy: Turn Any Text Into A Hyperlink Hyperlinks turn text into a clickable link that then opens a specific website. To create a hyperlink you need
I learned something new about my Windows 10 and 11 computers recently. Were you aware that your computer does not turn off all the way when you shutdown your computer. That’s right, there is a default setting called, “Turn on Fast Startup” that is enabled
There’s one piece of software that I come across on customers’ computers more frequently than I would wish to and that’s McAfee antivirus, known as McAfee Total Protection. It’s so prevalent that it almost feels like a virus itself. Most of my customers are running
Safe Mode, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Just kidding, paraphrasing the song… War (what is it good for). Safe Mode can be a very useful mechanism to help diagnose issues and rid the system of rogue software, but booting into Safe Mode has
