OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud storage and file sync utility, it’s built into Microsoft365, and it’s an incredibly useful feature. Sometimes however you can find that OneDrive becomes corrupt, fails to work on a PC, and can be run at all. Luckily there’s are easy fixes…
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Sometimes you need to reset Microsoft’s OneDrive file backup and synchronisation service, and set it up again. This might be because it has become corrupt, or it might be because you want the files syncing to a different drive or folder on your PC. OneDrive…
If you find that your PC isn’t booting to the desktop this doesn’t mean that it’s unrecoverable. It’s possible that something such as a hardware driver or Windows Update has caused the system to become unstable. It is possible though to roll back changes made…
Sometimes there’s some error that occurs during an update or shutdown operation that corrupts something on the PC such as your user account. The upshot is that the next time you start the PC, you get an error and it won’t let you get to…
One of the most common problems people have on PCs is having their computer set to the correct speaker, headphone, and microphone options when they need them. I have written about how you can easily manage audio devices from the Taskbar, but sometimes you need…
Sometime you need to install a driver in Windows that’s not strictly compatible with Windows. This could be for some older, or legacy hardware that you still really need to use, but the only driver available is for Windows 7, or perhaps even Windows XP. You…
Sometimes a network connection can drop out suddenly, and you’re just left with a “can’t connect” planet icon in the System Tray. The usual solution would be to restart the PC, but you might have something open on the desktop that will be lost if…
Windows PCs can come with a lot of baggage in the form of older, and legacy features and apps that you might not ever want to use, or that could even pose a security hazard. Fortunately, Windows 10 makes it easy to remove them. You…
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…
