For whatever reason, Microsoft does not want you to remove Cortana completely in Windows 10. Previously, you used to be able to toggle Cortana on and off in Windows 10, but Microsoft decided to remove that option in the Windows ... Read more
Windows 10 has a feature that waits approximately ten seconds to open your startup apps when your computer turns on. The "startup delay" is meant to allow your desktop and Windows app services to finish loading, which can make the ... Read more
The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), or stop error, is an error that appears on your Windows 10 PC during a system crash. Windows Insiders running Preview builds on their Windows 10 PCs will experience a Green Screen of Death ... Read more
Windows 10 automatically updates your device drivers as part of its regular Windows Update installations. Drivers available on Windows Update will be downloaded to your PC as they become available, which could cause unexpected configuration changes. Generally, it's advisable to ... Read more
Since the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Microsoft disabled the ability to see the amount of battery life time remaining on a Windows 10 laptop. After some simple edits in the Registry Editor, there is a way to re-enable the ... Read more
This is a small trick, but one you might find useful. By default, Windows 10's taskbar clock shows only the hour and minutes. There's no built-in option to show the seconds too, which feels like an unnecessary omission. Read on ... Read more
For generations, Windows has shipped with six top-level folders: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos. In October 2017, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update added a seventh: 3D Objects. The folder is meant to provide a natural save location ... Read more
Windows 10's taskbar is an almost unchanged continuation of the design Microsoft introduced with Windows 7. By default, open windows are combined into a single icon representing their parent app. If you've got just one window of an app open, ... Read more
Windows 10's dark theme has been undergoing further development in recent Insider builds, integrating it more deeply into the interface. More shell components and apps now support dark theme, including the console scrollbars and title bar. However, it is already ... Read more
Now that we know future updates to Windows 10 will reserve 7 GB of space on our hard drives, there is a way to stop this from happening. While the reserved storage issue is currently only available to Windows Insiders ... Read more
Windows 10 displays information about the make, model and name of your device within the Settings app and Control Panel system page. Usually, you won't notice anything wrong with this information. However, if you've just reinstalled Windows or built your ... Read more
The Windows lock screen experience introduced with Windows 8 and extended in Windows 10 drapes your background image and notifications over your monitor when your PC is locked. This adds another keypress when you return to your desk – you ... Read more
If Microsoft designed Windows 10 S as the most secure version of Windows 10, it turns out that the new OS doesn't support many power users features such as regedit, Powershell, and the Windows Command processor.
Here's the top Windows 10 news for the past week - bringing some big news such as Paint being overhauled, stock apps being made uninstallable and more.
The Windows Registry Editor finally receives some love from Microsoft, making work easier for many system administrators and power users out there.
Here are the steps you need to do to change your Windows Registry in order to adjust your Windows 10 Lock Screen timeout settings.
Find out how you can use the new Windows 10 Refresh Tool to remove bloatware from your PC and bring the performance of your computer back to how it was when it was all shiny and new.
The login screen in Windows 10 no longer has that plain-colored background that was present in Windows 8.1. You could say that the new login screen is more “alive” now that it features the default Windows 10 wallpaper as its ... Read more