Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing problems with PCs proficiently is key to maintaining productivity in today’s connected world. Here we’ll build your skills as a proficient troubleshooter for Windows 10 systems. In this course, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Part 2, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot, diagnose and…
Author: Mike Halsey
Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing problems with PCs effectively is key to maintaining productivity in today’s connected world. Here we’ll get you started as a proficient troubleshooter for Windows 10 systems. In this course, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Part 1, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot, diagnose and…
If like me you have to shuffle a lot of files back and forth to the cloud, then you might find that the cloud service apps such as Microsoft’s OneDrive, and Dropbox, can consume quite a lot of bandwidth. This can become a real problem…
Okay so there’s a story behind this article. A few months ago I moved from my house in the UK, to the South of France. This has afforded me a wonderfully peaceful lifestyle in the countryside, but has come with the downside of a very…
If you use virtual machines in Hyper-V in Windows, then you may occasionally need to make a change that might need to be safely undone, perhaps because you’re testing something. Hyper-V comes with a feature called Checkpoints that allows you do do this at any time.…
If something goes wrong with your PC and you find that Windows no longer starts to the desktop, you can reinstall the operating system from the Recovery Console. If Windows fails to start three times then it will start its recovery process automatically, but if…
If something goes wrong with your PC and it’s unable to boot to the desktop, you need to be able to recover it to a working state. Much of the time you’ll be presented with the Recovery Console if the PC fails to start three…
Microsoft have released a set of PowerToys for Windows 10, which you can download from this link. One of these utilities is called PowerRenamer and it is a very powerful, and highly effective way to be able to bulk rename files, or even just parts of…
Windows 10 comes with a really useful feature that allows you to snap apps and programs to different sides, or corners of your screen, and you can read how to dot his HERE. There’s a new tool though released through Microsoft PowerToys that expands and…