Microsoft Windows 10 operating system articles
What Is DPC Latency “A Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) is a Microsoft Windows operating system mechanism which allows high-priority tasks (e.g. an interrupt handler) to defer required but lower-priority tasks for later execution. This permits device drivers and other low-level event consumers to perform the […]
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Windows automatically runs lots of programs and services at boot time. You can enable/disable the Services and you can “break” your installation by doing so. We are not going to delve into that dark crevasse today. What we will be talking about are all those
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I recently bought my sister’s old tower. It’s a Gateway DX4380 with 6GB of memory. She hasn’t used it for years and it had an old version of Windows 10 installed which I updated to the latest version. When I set up my computers, I
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Accessing information about a computer’s hardware components can help in many situations including when seeking assistance/support. There are quite a few third-party tools that will accomplish this. However, Windows 10 has a basic System Information tool built in that will provide enough information to satisfy
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How To Change Your Screen Resolution Each monitor you have connected to your computer has a default resolution. Unlike the old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors, today’s monitors have a defined number of picture elements (pixels) set in a width by height matrix. 1920 x
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I had a question from someone today about this little half-moon on the top row of their keyboard. They wanted to know what it was so I had them tap the key. They were quite surprised when their monitor went dark and the computer went
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I have been using a couple of the Wise applications for some time. Wise Disk Cleaner runs automatically daily cleaning out stuff on my drive. Today I noticed a link to a new utility as Disk Cleaner was running. It is called Checkit and it
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Did you know that the background image displayed on the Windows 10 Lock screen and sign-in screen can be customized to suit your own taste? Even though this image is usually only displayed fleetingly, it can become quite mundane seeing the same old image over
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No Clean Install A Solid State Drive (SSD) is still the single-most, best, bang for the buck upgrade you can make for your desktop PC or laptop. Migrating Windows (or any operating system) from a mechanical hard drive (“spinner”) to an SSD is a pretty
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I find many users without the need for an Office Suite. WordPad comes with Windows 10 and they will use it when they need to type a letter or record something in a document file. WordPad is not Microsoft Word but a stripped-down word processor
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In Windows 10, the bottom bar on the desktop is called the Taskbar. It has the Start button on the left and the time/date on the right. When we open an application, an icon representing that application appears on the Taskbar with an underline indicating
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We have been plagued with the requirement to enter a password to startup Windows forever. The addition of a PIN and even facial recognition has been recently added to Windows 10. Yet, there are some who like their computer to start without entering anything. In
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It probably sounds strange for a Windows tips article to have a title like, “No More Tips”. It was my meager attempt at humor. Actually, I’m talking about the Windows 10 Tips, Tricks, and Suggestions that can inundate you. They can even be a small
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A man brought me his laptop because his mouse/touchpad wasn’t working. I thought it was a simple matter of just enabling it. This was an Acer and the key combination is Fn + F7. Then I discovered the keyboard wasn’t working either. The first thing
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