With the Windows 10 Creators Update and above, the context menu option ‘Open command window here’ is replaced by ‘Open PowerShell window here’ entry. PowerShell replaces Command Prompt in the Win+X or Power User menu as well.
Continue reading “How To Remove PowerShell From Context Menu in Windows 10”
In Windows 10, some apps are always running in the background. Microsoft designed Windows 10 to run apps constantly to provide notifications to users and keep those apps updated with content that they fetch from the internet. There are plenty of users who never use the Store apps, but they still run in the background and consume system resources. Let’s see how to stop them and free system resources.
Continue reading “How To Stop Windows 10 Apps From Running In The Background”
Creating and managing user accounts is easy in Windows 10. For instance, you can enable or disable an account using different methods. This post explains how to rename a user account in Windows 10.
Continue reading “How To Rename A User Account In Windows 10”
Windows 10 shows you a list of all user accounts available on your PC in the bottom left corner of the logon screen. You can click the user avatar, enter the password if necessary, and login using the provided credentials. If you have more than one user accounts on your PC, at times, you might want to disable a user account to restrict a user from accessing your PC.
Continue reading “How To Disable or Enable A User Account in Windows 10”
The activity history is used for the Cortana’s pick up where you left off feature. The feature allows you to resume apps, docs and other activities that you were doing before restarting your PC. The activity history is shared between your devices so you can continue on another device.
Continue reading “How To View And Clear Activity History In Windows 10”
File extensions help us to identify file types. File Explorer in Windows 10 doesn’t show file extensions with default settings. This post explains how to change make File Explorer to always show or always hide file extensions for files in Windows 10. Continue reading “Show Or Hide File Extensions In Windows 10 File Explorer”
This post explains how to set your network as Public or Private. When you are signing in to your account for the very first time, the OS asks you to set your network location type to either Public or Private. You can change the current network profile to Public or Private at any moment.
Continue reading “Set Network Location To Public Or Private In Windows 10”
When you change the desktop wallpaper, Windows remembers the file name and path of the last five wallpapers. The Choose your picture box on the Personalize page in Settings displays their thumbnail images. First thumbnail image is your the current background, followed by thumbnails of previous four wallpapers. This post explains how to remove previously used desktop background images history in Windows 10.
Continue reading “Clear Desktop Background Wallpaper History in Windows 10”
If you have a copy of the Windows ISO with a generic name which doesn’t make any sense, you may want to find which Windows version, build and edition it contains. This post explains how it can be done.
Continue reading “Find Windows Version, Build and Edition from ISO or DVD”
Due to corruption of Component Store located at the C:\Windows\WinSxS directory, the system files in your Windows 10 computer become corrupt, and the System File Checker tool (sfc /scannow) unable to recover them. This article explains how to fix Windows 10 if it cannot be updated or if certain system components are damaged.
