indulgences into my geek side
The Windows 10 Action Center recycles its name from a former feature in the Control Panel, but is opened up to all notifications and is more customizable than you might notice at first.
Today, Lumia launched their Home Trials campaign, centered on the new Lumia 950, and I received a kit to test it out and let you know what I think!
Later next year the OneDrive default storage allotments will be lowered, but current users can opt-in to keep their current storage by simply clicking this one button.
If you’ve been participating in the Windows 10 Insider Preview, you may have experienced some bugs as new builds have been sent. If you’re wanting to get back on the stable release track, now is a great opportunity.
IE is dead to the world, but it’s still kickin’ in Windows 10. Here’s a great way to use the browser to automate some redundant tasks and score back some extra time.
I want to find more time to learn PowerShell from the ground up. So far I’ve been scripting with it and learning chunks and cmdlets at a time as I need them. For example:
Windows 10 a nice upgrade and is loaded with more features than any previous release. These same features can also negatively impact your performance for days or more after your upgrade.
Windows 10 comes with a great many new and updated features, but my favorite is one you might just have overlooked. This gem is by far what I miss the most when using an older version of Windows.
In case you missed it, the console host got a big update too, including features that matter to even casual users.
My previous post discussed a new method to “hide update” and stop a particular updates you don’t want from being installed. But what if you want to stop all driver updates, while keeping the security and defender patches flowing?
One of the design tenants of Windows 10 is the enabling of automatic system updates that are more transparent to the end user than in the past. But if you’re affected by a buggy device driver that gets installed automatically, you may want to block it. Here’s how.
This list is too good to keep to myself. I’ve been using several of these for years, but there are so many more than I ever knew — many for directories that are incredibly difficult to reach by navigating the folder tree directly.
When you start Xbox streaming, your Xbox video feed fills your display. Normally, switching to another app, even briefly, ends your streaming and kills your game. Unless you do this first.
If you miss having a visual indication of network activity, here’s an app for you.