Everybody encounters bugs and problems on their PCs from time to time, but did you know that Windows 10 comes with a special feature that allows you report problems, and text translation issues to Microsoft, as well as suggest improvements and new features? In the…
Author: Mike Halsey
If you do a lot of scripting in Windows, either through the Command Prompt, Powershell, or are using Azure Cloud Shell, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, then you might be interested in Windows Terminal. This is a Microsoft Store app available for Windows 10 that can…
Sometimes you need to download and test or evaluate a piece of software that’re sure about. Alternatively you might need to access websites you think may be unsafe, or insecure. You don’t want to expose your PC and Windows to online threats, and so Windows…
If you difficulty reading what’s on your PC’s screen, you can enlarge everything by activating the Magnifier. You can find this in Settings or by pressing Windows key + Ctrl + M. Here you can control the standard magnification level from 200% all the way up to…
If you use Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, you can create Virtual Machines (VM) that will run on your desktop. These can run test or evaluation environments for a variety of operating systems, including Windows and Linux. These VMs run in Hyper-V which you can…
If you experience problems on your PC, you can get useful and easy to understand information about crashes and errors from the Reliability Monitor. To open this, search for reliability in the Start Menu. This displays a graph showing different days, and events on your PC over…
You’ll probably already be aware of keyboard shortcuts you can use with your PC to speed up common tasks, such as Ctrl + X, C and V for Cut, Copy and Paste, and Alt + Tab to switch between running apps. But did you know there are a…
It can be quite often on a PC when you need access to special characters such as foreign currency symbols, specialist mathematical characters, or common foreign language characters. Traditionally in Windows you’ve had to open the Character Map app, find the right character, and in the…
Sometimes you’re working on a project that’s so important, you can’t afford to be interrupted by anything, let alone Windows installing updates and, worse, asking for you to restart the PC. It’s easy to pause updates in Windows for up to 30 days. From Settings, open Update…
