Windows 10 Articles

If you want to learn more about web design and development, installing Internet Information Services (IIS) on your Windows 10 computer is a good method. IIS is a free Windows […]

Have you heard or read of the Windows Action Center? Do you want to know what you can do with the Windows Action Center? Or do you want to turn […]

If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 from older versions like Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, you may have noticed that the F8 function key you pressed during startup to […]

Screensavers were originally created to prevent permanent image burn-in on cathode ray tube monitors. Modern displays don’t need this sort of protection. This is for two reasons.  The technology doesn’t […]

The Start Menu is one of the most used features on Windows computers as it hosts options to access your files and apps. You can actually customize the Windows 10 […]

Drivers are an essential part of your computer as they tell your software how to work with a piece of hardware. Being an important part of your machine, you need […]

There may be several valid reasons why you’d want to turn off Windows Defender on your computer. Maybe the service interferes while you’re gaming on your PC? Or maybe you’re […]

There are plenty of good reasons why you might want to set up Windows 10 backups. When something goes wrong, a backup can help you restore your files and system […]

A PC is only as good as the sum of its parts, and that includes the software used to control its many components. This software is called drivers—they allow Windows […]

While uncommon, Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors do still occur in Windows 10. Unlike the wall of blue text that older Windows versions displayed when a system crashed, newer […]

Microsoft, like its competitors, has a desire to tie you into the Microsoft ecosystem as much as possible, with services like Microsoft Office, Xbox, and OneDrive integrated into Windows. OneDrive, […]

The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is the initial low-level code that allows your PC to start up correctly when it’s first powered up. Some PC users will be familiar with […]

There was a time when having a mouse was weird. It was an expensive peripheral only a few professional users could justify. Today you can get a basic mouse for […]

If you’ve forgotten a password but you know it was saved somewhere on your computer, you can access your Windows saved passwords and see if it’s there. Windows actually keeps […]

A mapped drive is a shortcut to the specific drive on a different device that enables you to access resources shared on a local network, or files on a FTP […]

If your Windows 10 desktop icons are missing, there may be an issue with either your icon settings or your core Windows system. Issues like these often don’t have an […]

Each time you boot up your Windows PC, you expect it to work. It’s not every day that it starts up the exact same way though, especially if there’s an […]