Custom Cursor Colors in Windows
Windows 10 now includes the option of using vector-drawn cursors of any color and size you choose. Here’s how to set it up.
Windows 10 now includes the option of using vector-drawn cursors of any color and size you choose. Here’s how to set it up.
If you’ve ever added a widget to your Android home screen, you’ve probably seen the frustrating experience of scrolling through hundreds of unrelated options to find the one you want. There’s a faster way.
Although the Surface Dock doesn’t have standard DisplayPorts or HDMI, it does have two Mini-DisplayPorts, and ostensibly supports a single 4K-resolution display at a 60 Hz refresh rate. Actually achieving that frame rate can be frustrating and difficult. Here’s how I did it.
My, browsers come and go so quickly these days. Microsoft’s replacement for Internet Explorer is already shuttered now that they’ve joined the Chromium open-source project to produce Edge using that codebase. And as much as I’m all here for that, it can still be handy to have Internet Explorer–especially when you can control it programatically from PowerShell.
Android 10, if and when you can get it, makes setting Emergency Contact Info a breeze — no need to dig deep into Settings anymore.
Users all over the net are wondering out loud, “why is my Startup tasks full of Google junk?” Here’s why, and a few easy ways to prevent it.
Have you ever wanted to see the seconds on your taskbar clock? You won’t find an option for this, but you can turn it on in Windows 10 with this trick.
Because of the lack of a backlight, OLED displays can be perceived as darker than their LED powered counterparts. To maintain a similar style and prevent the taskbar from appearing black, Windows will use a lighter transparency level on OLED screens, but you can also override this to adjust your taskbar opacity yourself.
Windows Spotlight is a lock screen feature that highlights photography from famous, historical, and natural landmarks. Being on the lock screen, these can only show while your device is unused and idle, but with this tip, you can enjoy a these daily images on your desktop wallpaper too.
The Edge browser lets you write, draw, and annotate webpages as if they were paper pages – and this quick little trick also lets you save a full site screen capture.
In the 90s, Microsoft heavily integrated their operating system and browser. Even in the latest release, Windows 10 version 1709, an option that decidedly makes more sense in Folder Options inexplicably resides in the control panel that dates back to 1993.
Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access is promising protection from ransomware, but implementation can put users in a panic.
No sign of the Fall Creators Update on your Windows 10 PC? You may have an old install that needs cleaned up.
An unlucky group of Samsung Galaxy S8 users are experiencing significantly delayed or missed notifications. Here’s one workaround that has proven successful so far.
Today’s tip allows you to control the time window for downloading Windows Updates.
Another case where Windows seemingly goes out of its way to punish mobile users is with responsive websites.
Whether you swipe to unlock, drag out a pattern, touch your fingerprint, or any other magical incantation, you do it as much as a hundred times a day or more.