A round up of useful guides, tutorials and other resources to help you get started with Microsoft Windows.
Like many other modern applications, Microsoft Teams offers a dark mode. It works in all versions of Teams, including the Windows, Mac, web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. Here’s how to turn on dark mode—and how to get light mode back if you prefer that. Activate …
Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Office 365) applications usually open in a few seconds. But recently, when I tried opening the Word application, it showed “The application was unable to start correctly(0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application” error on my Windows 10 PC. The …
Do you manually start specific services in Windows? Some people do this, when they want to run a program or two for a short time. Normally, most administrators use Services.msc, Windows' built-in service management tool, for controlling the program's dependent services. That's not exactly the fastest …
Sometimes, when you are using a mobile Windows device, e.g. a laptop or notebook running Windows 10, you may notice that the device's battery power is consumed rather quickly. Sometimes, this can be linked to the use of a particular service or application, such as streaming …
Microsoft is testing a fundamental change in the company's Windows 10 operating system that moves third-party drivers to a dedicated location outside the system32 folder. First spotted by Albacore and revealed via Twitter, the feature moves all third-party drivers that get installed on the device to …
DOS Games were amazing, and some of them still are. You can still find some of them on Steam and GOG. That's how my gaming journey began nearly 30 years ago. While I was terrified of games like Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, Blood that my uncle played …
Microsoft revealed plans some time ago to remove the Windows 10 applications Paint 3D, 3D Viewer and the 3D Objects Folder. The removal is applied to new installations only at this point and not upgraded installations of Windows 10. Windows 10 users may install Paint 3D …
QBittorrent is the one I normally use and recommend for downloading torrents. For a more minimal approach, you have PicoTorrent, which is quite easy to use and configure. Now, we have a decent alternative for that called LIII, it is a lightweight open source BitTorrent client …
The next feature update for Windows 10 is coming soon. Many Windows 10 administrators and users may be interested in the update, especially what it is going to change, introduce or remove from the Windows 10 operating system. Microsoft revealed some time ago that Windows 10 …