A round up of useful guides, tutorials and other resources to help you get started with Microsoft Windows.
Many Windows users, when unable to access one or multiple shared connections or folders across the local network, try running Windows Network Diagnostics Troubleshooter to understand the problem. They may end up seeing an error stating, File and Print sharing resource is online but isn’t …
Considering how much I enjoyed saying “Hello Google” to my Pixel phone and Google Home device, I thought I should be fair giving Cortana a try as well and see how good it is comparing to Google and other competitors. Hello Cortana First of all, open …
For everything that takes place on a Windows computer, the operating system considers it as an Event internally. So, when any processes or tasks go wrong, a user can trace out the exact breakpoint. For this, first, let us check what some common Service Event …
Windows 10 introduced a new feature that helps a user to stay connected to their task across their devices. This feature was marketed as Windows Timeline. With this, the user could continue their task across Windows 10 computers as well as on devices running iOS …
You can do a lot of cool things in Windows 10, but the first item that greets you when you fire up the OS is the lock screen. Clicking or tapping on it brings you to the sign-in screen where you log in to Windows. It …
The Reserved Storage feature introduced with version 1903 of Windows 10 makes sure that there is always a sufficient amount of free space for updates, apps, and system caches. With default settings, Windows 10 sets aside about 7 GB for Reserved Storage, but it will …
Cannot update Chrome to its latest version? Are updates to Chrome failing every time you try to update it? In this post, we are looking at the list of Chrome Update errors and list of solutions to fix those errors. Chrome failed updates Error Codes …
The NO USER MODE CONTEXT, 0x0000000E stop error can occur when a program is trying to leverage the use of a system driver but fails to do so. Some of the causes of NO USER MODE CONTEXT bluescreen of death error are corrupted or incompatible …
The clipboard feature on Windows 10 hasn’t changed much ever since it became a thing, and that can be a problem for many power users. You see, it’s not possible to copy multiple pieces of text and have it saved in the clipboard for future …
The PDF (Portable Document Format) is the open standard, created by Adobe in the 1990s, for presenting documents so they look consistent across all platforms and software. DOC (or DOCX) is the format/file extension used mainly by Microsoft Office for its word processing documents. The two …
One of the questions I’ve been asked quite often is how to print all these documents from a folder at once without opening them one by one. While I used a few methods to accomplish this task in the past, I found one of the easiest …
Have you ever downloaded an executable file (.exe file) but are afraid to run it, fear that running it might just blow off your whole system? You wish you can have a test machine, or better, a virtual machine for you to try out but also …
I have prepared a couple of USB sticks for Windows 10 installation. Since I am quite lame on labeling stuff, I lost track of which stick is for new UEFI-enabled machine and which one is for legacy BIOS boot. I can definitely do it all over …
The split-screen console gaming days may almost be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get split screen working on PC. For decades, the console has been the perfect couch co-op platform, but that’s not the case anymore. With a bit of preparation, we can actually …
Command Prompt can do many odd functions, much more than you acutally thought. You can even open folders and files using Command Prompt. Although, no one uses a Command Prompt command to open files and folders, but let’s have a look at the fun tips. You …
Microsoft has rolled out a handful updates for almost all valid versions of Windows. These updates are part of the Patch Tuesday. There are always certain known issues with OS updates. Even though Microsoft strictly scrutinizes all its patches and updates, there are still some notorious …
