Process Explorer: Manage Your Processes and Easily Find Resource Hogs Today, we’re featuring a great freeware program from Microsoft Tech Net’s Sysinterals. Sysinternals makes several great utilities for Windows and a couple of them we use all the time when we’re doing computer repair. One of them is Autoruns, and another is the application we’re featuring today. Both… Read More »
Use Active Hours to Prevent Windows From Automatically Restarting Your Computer After Windows Updates This tip is for Windows 10 Creators Update and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update We received a couple emails from folks who leave their computers running all the time – and who are frustrated with Windows Updates automatically restarting their computer after Windows updates. … Read More »
Be Careful What You Search For… and Think Before You Click There are enough scams on the web without bringing them to your PC with a poorly worded search. In this short tip, we’re going to give you a few tips on what you can do to avoid causing yourself big problems by poorly worded searches – and… Read More »
Good PC Housekeeping With Windows 10 Storage Sense This tip was written for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update & newer versions of Windows 10 Our own EB is a clean freak and a stickler for making sure her computer and her download folder is clean. She always gripes about my download folder because it’s a mess. And she’s… Read More »
How to Get Windows 10 Help from Microsoft Right From Your Computer How many of you knew that you can get help from Microsoft by phone in less than five minutes (usually)? Yes you can! You can get support for Windows 10 right from your computer. Yes, indeed you can, I tells ya! You can have Microsoft call… Read More »
3 Rather Rare Windows Tips These tips work in Windows 7, Windows 8x, and Windows 10 The tips below should work in any version of Windows from Windows 7 through Windows 10. Enjoy! 1. Taskkill Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here’s how you use… Read More »