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…
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…
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…
Windows Update can sometimes be a pain. While it’s both necessary and helpful to have security and stability updates automatically delivered to your PCs, this all too often results in restarts and downloads happening at the most unhelpful times. Fortunately it’s very easy to control…
Microsoft have changed the installation process for Windows 10 to “encourage” you to sign into the operating system with either a Microsoft Account, or a company Domain account. This means that when you perform a fresh installation of the operating system, you’ll no longer see…
When a new Feature Update is installed on your PC, a copy of your existing Windows installation is kept as a backup, just in case what is effectively a new version of Windows causes a problem and needs to be uninstalled. This backup can take…
Windows Updates can be annoying, especially if you have a low-bandwidth Internet connection. Fortunately Windows 10 includes controls to help you manage how you receive updates on your PCs, and from where they come. Opening Settings and navigating to Update & Security and then Delivery Optimisation is…
The semi-annual feature packs for Windows 10 bring new features and functionality at the end of every April and October, but they can also change some of the ways in which Windows works on your PC, and sometimes this can slow down or intrude on…
If you have a PC with only limited storage, you can find that you keep running out of space when trying to install a new app. This can be frustrating because often something else will need to be uninstalled or deleted. Windows 10 includes a…
