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 …
In the new version of Windows 10 there are some new features that can change the appearance of Windows desktop. One of such features is the ability to switch the color modes of how Windows applications appear. Just like you can switch to light or dark modes for the Windows apps, now you can switch Read More …
So you have just finished that report for the next big meeting and it took your entire day, but suddenly Windows also finished installing updates and it forced a system reboot. You did not even have the time to save the report. All the hard work and all the research is now down the drain. Read More …
When Windows 10 was first released, it came with many features such as Telemetry that can collect the user data and send it back to Microsoft servers. Even though none of the personal or identifiable information is collected, some users got concerned about the privacy issues. Since then many privacy related tools for Windows 10 Read More …
Last night when I was trying to shutdown Windows 10 PC, I suddenly saw a small strange message box with a title “This will cancel all transfers in progress” and with a confirmation message “Are you sure you want to cancel the transfers?” but without any further explanation. When you search about this strange message Read More …