Windows 10 comes with a great many fonts (otherwise known as typefaces) installed and you can use these to enhance your documents and presentations. Knowing what fonts you have installed and what they look like though can be difficult. In Windows 10 you can open Settings…
Author: Mike Halsey
The lock screen on your Windows 10 PC is much more than a place that hides your desktop from prying eyes when you’re away. It can provide useful information to help you get working again more quickly and effectively. To achieve this, from the Start…
If you have a lot of windows open on your desktop at any one time, it can sometimes be difficult to manage them, especially if you need to compare two documents, or move files from one window to another. In Windows 10 though you can…
If you are using Windows 10 on a tablet or convertible tablet device such as the Microsoft Surface Pro or the Lenovo Yoga then you will want to use your PC as a tablet from time to time. When you first get your device and…
It can sometimes be difficult to see buttons and icons, and read text on your PC screens, but Windows 10 includes a handy scaling feature that can make your PC much more pleasurable to work on. From the Start Menu, open Settings > System to display…
If you ever need to know exactly what’s going on at any time on your PC, the Microsoft utility Process Explorer should definitely be your first choice tool. Part of their Sysinternals Suite it displays details about everything that happens on your PC. The main…
If you do a lot of project work on your PC, or if you just want to keep your work and personal apps separate from one another, Windows 10 offers a useful Virtual Desktop feature. Clicking the Task View icon on the desktop Taskbar opens the…
If like me you tend to work on a project-by-project basis on your PC, then you’ll probably organise your documents and files into a single folder for ease of access, and accessibility. It can still be frustrating navigating through File Explorer each time you need…
Managing Startup apps and programs on a PC is useful, but what do you do if you suspect that a startup service, codec, driver, task, or Registry item is causing a problem or a slow-down, or if malware might have infected the PC. This is…
