Latest articles tagged “windows 10”

The Boot Options menu in Windows 8 and 10 offer users several powerful tools for troubleshooting the OS or changing the Windows Startup behavior. There are several ways to get to the Boot Option menu. Here are 6 of them. ... Read more

The Power Menu in Windows 8 and 10 allows you to perform the following basic operations: Shutdown or Restart the PC, Sign out from the current user account. Here are several methods to open this menu. ... Read more

PC Settings is a new app introduced in Windows 8. It contains the most important settings that an average user might need to change. Here are several ways to open this PC Settings app in Windows 8/8.1 or 10. ... Read more

Recent report indicate that Windows 10 could finally solve the majority of Windows' malware problems with improvements like two-factor authentication, support for cryptoprocessors, and ... Read more

Windows 10 switched to using toast notifications only, which are displayed as a Top-Right pop-up. We'll show you how to move the toast notification popup from the default Top position to Bottom, a process which can be easily reversed. ... Read more

New leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 10 build (9888) have come to the surface, which show a significant update in the Windows OS Kernel; this hints that Microsoft takes the “One Windows” idea quite seriously. ... Read more

Windows 8 made accessing the Startup folder harder, in order to make the system more secure, and Windows 10 kept the same trend. So if you need to make a program run automatically at Startup in Windows 8 or 10, here's how to do it. ... Read more

Windows 8-10 uses a page file to store critical Windows elements that it needs fast access to. When the hibernation option has been enabled then roughly 25 percent of the RAM memory is stored in the page file and 75 percent in the hibernation file. ... Read more

The Windows computer has the option to hibernate. This is a function where the current state of the running Windows system is saved to disk so that it can be restored back to that current state again more quickly. ... Read more

As announced in the official Microsoft blog post, Build 9879 comes with a lot of bug fixes and a few interesting new features and updates as well. ... Read more

When filled with too many files, the Empty Recycle Bin command doesn't always succeeds in clearing the entire Recycle Bin. Here are 2 methods for fixing this problem and emptying the Recycle Bin - both were tested and they work in Windows 8 and 10. ... Read more

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and DNS clients are caching DNS results and IP addresses in order to make future requests to the same hostnames faster. If you need to clear the local DNS cache, here's how. ... Read more

Build 9860 of the Windows 10 Technical Preview added new window animations. If you wish to disable them, the process is fairly easy and the same as it was in Windows 8, although window animations in Windows 8 were different. ... Read more

Windows 10 Technical Preview (starting with Build 9841) brings the option to create desktop shortcuts for Universal (or Metro, Modern) apps. The procedure is quite simple. ... Read more

We'll show you below how to create an ISO from the highly compressed install.ESD file used by Microsoft to deliver the new 9860 Build. ... Read more