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Assign Drive Letters to Problematic USB Drives in Windows 10

Sometimes you might find that you plug a USB Flash Drive, or external hard disk into your PC but it doesn’t appear in File Explorer, and is inaccessible. This is a straightforward problem to fix, as sometimes Windows either doesn’t assign a drive letter to…

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Identify Unknown Device Drivers in Windows 10

When you’re installing hardware devices on a PC there can be nothing more frustrating than having something as “Unknown device”. What do you do then? Windows Update can’t find the driver, and you don’t know which one you should install or download manually. Windows makes…

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Manage and Monitor Your PC with the Task Manager in Windows 10

If you’re trying to diagnose and troubleshoot a performance issue on a PC it can be daunting to try and figure out where you can get the right information. In Windows 10, Microsoft make it very easy to get high quality, live information about the…

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Get / Provide IT Help with the Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 10

If you need to provide remote help to someone on their PC and need them to demonstrate what’s happening, or what they’re doing, you can use a hidden little tool called the Problem Steps Recorder to achieve this. Ask the user to search for PSR in the…

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Don’t Reinstall… Reset! in Windows 10

Sometimes everything goes badly wrong and, no matter what you try to do to repair a problem in Windows, the only solution is to reinstall the OS. But Microsoft have announced that System Image Backup, the full disc image backup feature that’s been included since…

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Managing Corrupt Wi-Fi Networks in Windows 10

Wi-Fi is brilliant, it enables all of us to stay connected to the world around us whenever, wherever we are. However when something goes wrong and the Wi-Fi connection becomes corrupt, you can quickly find yourself locked out of the network you need to connect…

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Quickly Fix Windows Update Problems in Windows 10

Sometimes Windows Update can cause problems, such as refusing to download or install updates to your Windows PC. This normally happens because a file or configuration corruption has occurred within the Windows Update system, but the good news is that these problems can be very…

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Repair Windows Corruptions with the System File Checker in Windows 10

Sometimes you’ll find that you have corrupt, damaged, or missing files in Windows that are causing bugs, problems, or perhaps even blue screens. Faced with the possibility of reinstalling the operating system and all your software what can you do? Well there’s a hidden tool…

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