Many people have storage in their homes and workplaces that’s not in a PC, but is instead separate on the network. This could be a Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive, a USB hard disk plugged into a home Internet router, or a file server at…
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If you use a Windows 11 tablet or laptop then you’ll be connecting to the Internet by Wi-Fi, and not just to one network, but many as you move from home to work, to the local coffee shop or connect while travelling on a train.…
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…
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…
Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing problems with PCs proficiently is key to maintaining productivity in today’s connected world. Here we’ll build your skills as a proficient troubleshooter for Windows 10 systems. In this course, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Part 2, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot, diagnose and…
Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing problems with PCs effectively is key to maintaining productivity in today’s connected world. Here we’ll get you started as a proficient troubleshooter for Windows 10 systems. In this course, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Part 1, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot, diagnose and…
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…
Sometimes your PC can just run very slowly. When this happens it could be something using all your processor time, using too much of the PC’s memory, or reading and writing large volumes of data to the hard disk. If it happens regularly though you…
If you want to share files and documents between different PCs in your home, you can do it in one of three ways. You can set up cloud backup and sync on each device, though this is less practical on PCs with small amounts of…
