Windows 10 Power Menu Don’t you just love people who claim to be power users? What the heck is a power user? I’m a power reader! I read a lot. EB is a power flogger…she flogs me with power. Anyway… in Windows 10 there’s an extra menu that you can access by right-clicking the Start button or by… Read More »
How to turn off background apps in Windows 10 Windows 10, like most things and people which are successful, is either loved or hated. Those who hate Windows 10 say Windows 10 was set up to spy on you and to harvest all kinds of information about you to help Microsoft earn gazillions by stealing your privacy. Ain’t… Read More »
A last fall we published an article showing how a download site can manipulate search engines, capitalize on the hard work of software developers, and roll up software that belongs to someone else in a nasty installer full of PUPs and malware. This site is called Softonic and it’s one of the biggest, most popular download sites, not… Read More »
Advanced startup options in Windows 10 Digging deep into the inner workings of Windows 10 we find the rather arcane feature called “Advanced startup”, see? Most of you who are just starting to use Windows 10 have probably never seen this option, and having just installed Windows 10, probably haven’t needed it. Down the road a year or… Read More »
System Reset and Refresh get married in Windows 10 In Windows 8x a lot of changes were made and many were not well accepted. However, one little known feature of Windows 8x was improved in Windows 10. In Windows 8x there was a System Refresh and a System Reset and the few people who knew about it were… Read More »
Make Cortana use Google Instead of Bing search (and how to set a default browser in Windows 10) [Page updated on 6/28/2018] We’ve removed this tip because it does not work in Windows 10 versions released after April 2016. Hopefully you’re not still using an unsupported version of Windows 10. If you would like your Cortana searches to… Read More »