Did you know you can set your PC or laptop to lock automatically when you walk away, and unlock for you when you return. With Dynamic lock it possible to use your smartphone, or smart watch to achieve this. In Settings, click Accounts and then Sign-in options. Here you…
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If you have a mobile device such as a laptop or tablet, and using maps a lot, you can download and keep maps on your PC to use with the Windows 10 Maps app at any time, even without an Internet connection. This is easy…
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…
While you can pin remote drives in File Explorer on your PC, so you can get quick access to them, it’s also possible to share disks and folders on your PC with other computers on the network. This can also include optical drives, allowing you…
If you need to regularly access files and documents on your office or home network, you might find it a chore each day to find that network resource in File Explorer. Did you know though that you can pin the drive within File Explorer though…
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…
Okay so there’s a story behind this article. A few months ago I moved from my house in the UK, to the South of France. This has afforded me a wonderfully peaceful lifestyle in the countryside, but has come with the downside of a very…
If you use virtual machines in Hyper-V in Windows, then you may occasionally need to make a change that might need to be safely undone, perhaps because you’re testing something. Hyper-V comes with a feature called Checkpoints that allows you do do this at any time.…
If something goes wrong with your PC and you find that Windows no longer starts to the desktop, you can reinstall the operating system from the Recovery Console. If Windows fails to start three times then it will start its recovery process automatically, but if…
