Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
What Is Homegroup The Windows Homegroup allows people to share files, printers and other devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) without having to install drivers on the individual computers or keeping multiple copies of files on several computers. This can be very handy for
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Cortana And Bing Don’t Forget Cortana is your personal assistant. She is forever eavesdropping on your activity and searches. She perhaps knows your habits better than you. Not only that, but she shares everything she knows with her old pal Bing. For privacy-conscience people, this
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Windows 10 Game Mode, Et Al… The Windows 10 Creators Update introduced a new feature called Game Mode. Its purpose is to potentially speed up a game’s responsiveness by focusing system resources on said game rather than other possibly less-needed background processes. According to many
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Drive Fragmentation In the old days one of the necessary chores was to defragment (Defrag) your Hard Disk Drives (HDD) on a regular basis. This helped them to run at peak efficiency, reduced “head thrashing”, and prolonged the life of the drive, not to mention
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Command Prompt is Missing The recent Windows 10 Creators Update has struck again. This time, it is in the form of a missing Command Prompt entry in the WinX Menu (Windows Key + X). It has been replaced by the Power Shell and that is
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Storage Control Every week I go through a backup sequence that involves, obviously, backing up my computer. What may not be so obvious is that I also make a point of eliminating a lot of dormant cruft that builds up over time. Namely, temporary files
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Control Panel is AWOL In the latest iteration of Windows 10, the Creators Update, the WinX menu is different. Conspicuous by its absence is the Control Panel. Microsoft is slowly but surely replacing the time-honored Control Panel with the Settings App. As time passes, and
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Thank You Windows 8 Over the years I’ve played with all sorts of Desktop customisation software, not least following the launch of Windows 8 when we were all left scratching our heads and wondering what had happened to our beloved Start Menu. That particular Windows
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The Blue Menace It has been established by “experts” in the field that late-night blue light is detrimental to human sleep patterns. This may be true, but I am not here to argue the point. For a long time now, I have taken them at
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No doubt you will be aware that the next major Windows 10 update, dubbed “Creators Update” is due to start rolling out from April 11th. I have wondered about the significance of the name “Creators Update” and, following a a little research, discovered that Microsoft
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Creators Update For starters, I’d like to point out that this week’s Quick Tips is going to be “quick”, and it is also going to be a tip, but there won’t be any step-by-step instructions. It is more of merely being a good idea– a
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What Is ISO In today’s Quick Tips we’ll be talking about ISO files. Specifically, Microsoft’s Windows and Office ISO files. “And the tip?”, you ask. Well, I am going to show you how to get many ISO files, all legal mind you, containing different versions
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Keyloggers “Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Keylogging can also be used
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Creator’s Update Is Fast Approaching If any of you were in the unfortunate position of upgrading to the last major Windows 10 upgrade, known as the Anniversary Update, then you will once again experience that uncomfortable worm crawling around in your stomach. Yes indeed folks,
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