Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
WebP is an image file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats ~ Wikipedia The WebP image format is supported by all Chromium-based browsers and many websites now use this format to help with faster loading. However, image viewers are a little behind with their […]
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Edit Images Directly In Edge In the latest release of the Dev and Canary channels, you can start editing web images right in your browser. Simply hover over the top right corner of any web-based image. Beneath the familiar four corner icons are two hidden
With several computers in our household and those of family and friends, I still need to reinstall or upgrade Windows from time to time, be it Windows 10 or 11. On these occasions, I never connect to the Internet until the installation is complete and
When Windows 11 debuted, it offered a new feature, called Voice Typing, the newest iteration of the Windows speech dictation tool to convert spoken words into text. Speech-to-text is a useful process for quickly getting thoughts into the computer without having to worry about typing.
Where Are My Passwords Have you ever forgotten the password to a website? It is easy to do. You might have had one for a long time and decided to update it and then forgot what the new one was or forgot to record it.
Users often ask in which order the two commands to fix system file corruptions – sfc /scannow and Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth – should be run. To know the answer to this question you first need to understand what functions these two commands perform. Please read: How
It’s something we’ve probably all experienced occasionally, when access to the normal shutdown and restart options are unavailable, such as when the Start button and/or menu are unresponsive. Most of us will resort to holding the power button in to power down and then pressing
A woman brought me her HP laptop with Windows 10 because she couldn’t get Microsoft Edge to open. So I searched online and tried about a half-dozen different things and nothing worked. It wouldn’t even open in Safe Mode. She said something about a virus warning
Microsoft’s gradual deprecation of the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app is making some settings/options more difficult to locate. With that in mind, I thought it might be time to explain how to access the System Restore settings where you can turn this
The latest iteration of Microsoft’s Edge browser now includes a sidebar with a number of useful features. The sidebar displays down the right-hand edge of the browser window and is closed by default. Clicking on an item (icon) in the adjacent menu bar (which is
Why Improve My Game Recordings? Because when you upload videos to YouTube, there’s a noticeable difference in the quality you see on your PC and what YouTube shows you. This is due to the AVC1 compression that YouTube uses when your video is published. One
What Is HEVC? H.265 or HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) is a video compression technique or algorithm and is particularly important for 4K videos which can be huge in size. So what you see on Netflix and others is probably coded in HEVC/H.265. Why am I
One of the most annoying traits in Windows 10 and 11 – well, as far as I am concerned anyway – is the incessant flow of notifications that keep popping up ad nauseum. This is the default behavior but can easily be disabled in just
