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Windows 10 installs updates in the background and it’s not very easy to stop it from doing this. You can set your connection as “metered”, which will prevent Windows 10 from downloading updates automatically, but it’s a lot easier to...
Edge is a new browser from Microsoft. While it’s better than Internet Explorer in many ways, it has been reported to crash a lot on some systems. In this article we’ll try to help you fix Microsoft Edge crashes the...
Is your PC a power hog that increases your monthly electricity bill? It doesn’t have to be, but high powered gaming desktops often consume more power than they really should. Here’s what you can do to make your PC use...
Even though hard drives are getting larger and larger, disk space on your PC is still limited. And if you have an SSD, then you’re still facing the problem of running out of disk space. Luckily, there are ways to...
Microsoft is notorious for thinking than they know better than you, the Windows user. In a lot of cases what they do is actually helpful, but way too often their actions resulted in privacy concerns and bad user experience. Now,...
We’re all so used to Windows slowing down over time, that we accept that even Windows 8 and 10 will become slow over time. But your PC doesn’t have to be slow. There are many reasons why it can...
When you check out system files on Windows 10 and Windows 8, you’ll see that there are not only Pagefile.sys and Hiberfil.sys present, but that there’s a new file called Swapfile.sys. Don’t worry, it’s not a virus – this file is...
If you’ve upgraded your Mac OS X and tried the new Photos app, you must’ve appreciated all the cool new features it has. Photos is a pretty cool upgrade to iPhoto, but there’s one thing that the app can’t do...
Windows 10 has lots of cool new features, but some of its functions are a bit shifty. One of them is that by default Windows 10 shares your Wi-Fi password with people you have as contacts in Outlook, Facebook and...
In the past, figuring out which programs were slowing down your computer was not an easy task. You had to poke around and use advanced tools for disabling startup items. Windows 10 makes things easier. It has a tool for managing your startup...