The Safe Way to Get Help From Microsoft This applies to Windows 10, all versions. We covered this before, but to remind you, Microsoft is not going to show you a popup online and tell you that your computer is infected; they’re never going to call you out of the blue and tell you that your computer has… Read More »
How to Use Emoji in File and Folder Names NOTE: This tip applies to Windows 10 — version 1709 and newer. We’re not sure how useful this tip will be for most of you, but we’re quite sure some of you will come up with some uses for it. Did you know you can use Windows Emoji in… Read More »
How to Reset Folder View Settings in Windows 10 Many of us spend a lot of time getting our Windows computers set up the way we like them. For instance, we love the checkbox feature and have a particular way we like our files sorted when we view folders. But sometimes, most often after an update, Windows forgets… Read More »
All About the Windows 10 Stopwatch, Timer, and more Windows 10 has many features which tend to go unnoticed. One of those features is the “Alarms & Clocks” feature. To access the “Alarms & Clocks” feature you can type any of the following into taskbar search: timers clocks stopwatch countdown That’s right! Type in any of those and… Read More »
Windows 10 Puts Weather At Your Fingertips Recently, we had a couple of people ask us to recommend a a good weather program for Windows. Both of these folks were using Windows 10 and neither were aware that Windows 10 comes with a very nice Weather app. It’s as good as, or better than many 3rd-party apps such… Read More »
Stop Using Disk Cleanup and Start Using Storage Sense Microsoft is deprecating Windows Disk Cleanup beginning with Windows 10 Version 1809 (October 2018 update). Microsoft said in an announcement on August 30, 2018: The Disk Cleanup experience (“cleanmgr.exe”) is being deprecated. We’re retaining the Disk Cleanup tool for compatibility reasons. There’s no need to worry since Storage Sense’s functionality is a… Read More »