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How to Set Up Family Accounts in Windows 10
Do you share a Windows 10 computer or tablet with the adults and children in your family? You can easily add new family accounts to the device so everyone in the house can use it individually. Then, adults in the...
How to Disable Windows 10’s Game DVR (and Game Bar)
Windows 10’s Game DVR feature can slow your gaming performance by recording video in the background. If you don’t care about recording your gameplay, disable Game DVR for performance reasons. This also disables...
How to Easily Reinstall Windows 10 Without the Bloatware
The “Reset Your PC” feature in Windows 10 restores your PC to its factory default settings…including all that bloatware your PC manufacturer included. But the new “Fresh Start” feature in Windows 10’s Creators...
How to Tweak the Start Menu Tiles in Windows 10
Whether you love tiles or not, you can find ways to customize and work them so it's easier to access your favorite apps. You can resize your tiles, pin and unpin them on the Start menu or Start screen, turn...
How to use the Windows 10 View Your Network Properties feature to obtain detailed information
Image: iStockphoto.com/AlexBrylov In previous versions of Windows, the best way to quickly obtain detailed network information during a troubleshooting expedition was to launch a Command Prompt and use the good...
How to Change the Default Quiet Hours in Windows 10
Have you ever wondered why you can only turn Quiet Hours on or off in Windows 10, but not set the actual hours you want? We have, too. But with a little Registry or Group Policy hack, it turns out you can. ...
How to Customize Your Default Apps in Windows 10
To set the default apps for your key software programs, click on the Start button > Settings > System > Default apps. The right pane of the Default apps screen lists some of your core Windows 10 app categories...
Quickly Change the Audio Playback Device in Windows 10 Anniversary Update
A new feature in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update aims to make changing your audio output device easier. In previous versions of Windows, including all versions of Windows 10 prior to the Anniversary Update in...
How to Turn Off Windows 10 Tips, Tricks, and Suggestions Pop-Ups
Windows 10 introduces many new features and apps , and Microsoft therefore wants to ensure that users are aware of all of the new things that the operating system and its built-in apps can do. The company’s...
How to Turn Off Windows 10 Tips, Tricks, and Suggestions Pop-Ups
Windows 10 introduces many new features and apps , and Microsoft therefore wants to ensure that users are aware of all of the new things that the operating system and its built-in apps can do. The company’s...
How to Capture Video Clips in Windows 10
How to Capture Video Clips in Windows 10 Windows 10 has a secret, built-in tool that will help you record video clips of screen activity Windows 10 comes with a nifty screen-capture utility through which...
Windows 10 tip: Find your PC's original product key
If you've purchased a new PC with Windows pre-installed in the past few years, you might have noticed a few changes on the outside of the device. The biggest change is the absence of a product key, which was included...
Don’t like white title bars on Windows 10? Here’s how to get colored title bars!
Windows 10 comes with a lot of new features and improvements. One of the most controversial new change is the title bars – Microsoft has made the title bars white which a lot of users like while some don’t. If...
Why the latest Windows 10 cumulative update is failing and how you can recover
You can postpone the update or fix the flaw so it installs properly Those of us who routinely monitor Microsoft's support forums knew last week that something was wrong with the latest cumulative update to...
10 Ways to Customize the Windows 10 Start Menu
Windows 10 finally brought back the Start menu, and it’s more customizable than ever. Here’s a quick rundown of all the different ways that you can make the Start menu your own. Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Open...
How to use advanced options in Windows 10 to access BIOS settings
For most of us, and this is a fortunate happenstance to say the least, the BIOS settings on our personal computers are not something we ever have to see or deal with in a significant way. However, under certain...
Windows 10 upgrade and installation errors
This page lists the most common upgrade and installation errors and a some things you can try to fix them. If you continue having problems upgrading or installing Windows 10, contact Microsoft support . Error ...
Turn off forced windows updates
If you're anything like us, you set up previous Windows releases so that they wouldn't install updates automatically - one forced reboot is one too many. To be fair to Microsoft, Windows 10 handles post-update reboots...
Change from login with Microsoft account to local account
To change from Microsoft login to local account login on Windows 10: On the Windows 10 PC in question, navigate to the Accounts menu. You can do so in a variety of ways (such as taking a winding trip through the...

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