Microsoft has developed an open-source Terminal called Windows Terminal based on the popular open-source Terminal console that is available in all the variants of Linux. They have made it a little different as you can use PowerShell Core through it easily. Windows Terminal is available only on Windows 10 and can be installed through Microsoft Read More …
Often when you install a new software in Windows and try to run it later, it shows an error that “The program can’t start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer”. This is because that program was written by the developers using a particular version of Microsoft Visual C++ or some of its components use Read More …
Microsoft has released PowerShell Core 7.0 and now you can install it in your computer. It is different from the PowerShell that comes pre-installed with Windows 10. Actually PowerShell Core 7.0 is open-source and is available for not only Windows but also for other platforms like Linux and macOS. If you install PowerShell Core 7.0 Read More …
Windows 10 comes with only a few themes but you can always download new themes from Microsoft’s website. These themes come in the “.theme” file format and can add desktop backgrounds, change Windows colors, add new cursors and new sound themes to your Windows PC. There are hundreds of themes from various categories available from Read More …
In a fresh installation of Windows 10, you are first taken to a lock screen that displays a pretty picture, the time, notifications from various apps and so on. You have to press a key or click a mouse button to reach the sign-in screen where you can enter your username and password to finally Read More …
In Windows 10, you can install apps easily through Microsoft Store app. You can simply launch it from the Start menu, find an app that you want to install and click on the Install button. The Microsoft Store app downloads the .appx file for that app and installs it by itself without any user interaction. Read More …
Even though Microsoft’s support for Windows 7 officially ended in January 2020, so many people still love it simply because it was the last version of Windows that could play DVD movies on your PC without any trouble. The Windows Media Player included in Windows 10 does not play DVD movies and you are forced Read More …
Previously we have published about how you can change the icons used by various folders in Windows. This way you can assign different icons for your folders containing different types of files. For example, you can change the icon of your folder containing MP3 files to a musical picture, or you can assign a picture Read More …
After messing around with my hard drive and copying the contents of a software DVD (CyberLink PowerDirector) to a local partition on the hard drive, I ended up with a drive that has no icon at all. Even though this did not affect the performance of the operating system in any manner, it just looked Read More …
So I downloaded the latest version of Windows 10 (version 1909 aka November 2019 update) and I tried to burn it on a blank DVD, but since the download is nearly 5.3 GB, I could not create a DVD using my 4.7 GB capacity blank DVD media. And as it happened the USB pendrive I Read More …