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Generic Keys To Install Windows 10 Version 1909

Get Generic Keys to Install Windows 10 version 1909 November 2019 Update

There are often times when you need to install Windows 10 evaluation or testing in a virtual machine or on a lab PC. You may not want to activate it every time with your licensed product key that you use on a production or home PC. In that case, you can use generic keys for Windows 10 available from Microsoft, which will allow you to install the OS, but won’t allow you to activate it. As long as you have an ISO image or any other bootable media containing Windows Setup files you can install the OS using a generic key.
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Two Fun Tricks to Use Notepad on Windows 10

Notepad is one of the oldest built-in apps in Windows. It’s also the simplest text editor you can find on Windows but still it’s a great app for quick file editing. Here are two useful tricks that you can use in Notepad. Continue reading “Two Fun Tricks to Use Notepad on Windows 10”

Add Mono Audio Context Menu in Windows 10

How to Add Mono Audio Context Menu in Windows 10

Mono audio is a special Accessibility feature of Windows 10 that makes sure that even if a listener has an issue with one ear or one audio channel, he or she will never miss a word or sound of audio playing in a stereo headset or multichannel speakers. For many years, the audio we listen to has come with distinct left and right channels. In this case, the listener receives a different audio stream from both channels with different sounds. Unlike stereo, monoaural audio plays the same stream via both channels. Windows 10 includes a native option to enable Mono audio output. You can access it faster by adding a special context menu command to the Desktop.
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Enable Mono Audio in Windows 10

How to Enable Mono Audio in Windows 10

Mono audio is an accessibility feature of Windows 10 that makes sure that even if a listener has an issue with one ear or one audio channel, he will never miss a word or sound of audio playing in a stereo headset or multi-channel speakers. Usually, audio streams include at least left and right channels. So, the listener receives a different audio stream from both channels with different sounds. Unlike stereo, mono audio plays the same stream via both channels.
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Create Shortcut to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

How to Create Shortcut to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10

Windows 10 has a number of troubleshooting and recovery tools in the boot menu, placed under Advanced Startup options. They are useful when you run into issue that you cannot fix in the regular Windows 10 session. E.g. you can use them to overwrite or delete some in-use files. To open Advanced Startup Options faster, you can create a shortcut to directly start Windows 10 in Advanced Startup mode.
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Reset Settings app in Windows 10

How to Reset the Settings app in Windows 10

Microsoft introduced a Settings app in Windows 10 to replace the classic Control panel program. Due to this reason, most of the classic options have received their modern counterparts in the Settings app. With Windows 10, Microsoft wants users to start using the Settings app for all customization tasks.

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Turn On or Off HDR and WCG Color for Display in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off HDR and WCG Color for a Display in Windows 10

The Windows 10 operating system includes support for HDR videos (HDR). The HDR video format eliminates various limitations of classic SDR video signals and adds a greater brightness and color to the picture. Continue reading “Turn On or Off HDR and WCG Color for Display in Windows 10”