If you are a user of the Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software, you can make your operating system more protected. It is possible to enable Adware or potentially unwanted software protection in Microsoft Security Essentials with a Registry tweak.
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In this article, we will see the easy steps to backup and restore Sticky Notes in Windows 10 in order to transfer them it to another Windows 10 PC or restore them after reinstall.
You can play Store Games offline in Windows 10. This is possible thanks to the updated Store app. You need to configure it once. See how.
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If you have hibernation enabled in your Windows 10, then a file hiberfil.sys exists in the root of your C: drive. Windows 10 stores there the memory contents when you hibernate your PC. You can shrink the hibernation file in Windows 10 with a single command.
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Windows 10 comes with a feature “Fast Startup” enabled by default. It speeds up the boot process. Fast Startup makes Windows boot very fast.It depends on hibernation. You can disable full hibernation to save disk space but keep Fast Startup enabled in Windows 10.
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In Windows 10 Creators Update, the context menu command “Open command window here” was replaced with “Open Powershell window here”. Here is a simple tweak to bring the command prompt back in the context menu of File Explorer.
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Windows 10 Creators Update is the upcoming major update to Windows 10. It will add plenty of new features to the operating system. One of them is Clean Up PC, a new Reset option. Before Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows 10 had only two reset options – Refresh/Keep my files and Reset/Remove everything.
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Starting with Windows 10 version 1607 “Anniversary Update” the classic version of Sticky Notes was replaced with a Universal(UWP) app with close integration with Cortana and Search. It is possible to convert classic Sticky Notes from Windows 7, Windows 8 or an older Windows 10 release to the new format.
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In this article, I will review a number of methods to open an elevated command prompt in Windows 10. This can be useful for various maintenance and administrative tasks.
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The This PC folder in Windows 10 shows a number of user folders by default. In Windows 10 Creators Update and earlier versions, the folders Documents, Pictures, Music, Downloads, Desktop, and Videos library folders were visible in This PC. In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a new folder, 3D Objects has been added. Continue reading “Remove 3D Objects from This PC in Windows 10”
