If creating Restore Points in Windows seems tedious, you can try this Restore Point Creator which is free from multiple menus, featuring a simple layout to let you create a Restore Point easily. All System Restore functionality that’s in this program uses approved Microsoft System Restore APIs and conforms to Microsoft specifications. All restore points […]
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Windows 8 and especially Windows 10 are notorious for their strict rules of opening programs that may influence system settings. I need a lot of such programs to run immediately when Windows starts, such as Sleeper, Favorite Launcher and NumPad Transformer, so that this prompt to give permission for each of them became really annoying! […]
Each time Windows downloads updates it takes up all the bandwitdth so that practically you may not be able to do anything online, although you stay connected of course. A solution to this would be to work on tasks that are irrelevant with the internet, even just go and make some coffee! However, if you […]
If you tried to create an image (ISO) or a flash drive that includes the Windows 10 installation package, and somehow it happened that your task was not finished, it is possible that running again the Microsoft Media Creation Tool results in an error message, that “Setup couldn’t start properly”, although you rebooted your system! […]
Unfortunately Windows now does not include the nice collection of sound schemes featured on Windows 7. Here is what you can do to add more. First of all, you need to have available in your PC the sounds of the Windows 7 schemes, or any other sounds you may like. Then you must enter into […]
In this post I will help you to get back your system, restoring it without the need of Windows Recovery, and then I will propose a way (that I follow myself) for better safety measures in the future, always using free applications. First of all, you need to convert the system image Windows created, in […]
Windows 8.1 adds an option in the context menu of files and folders to pin them to the Start screen. If you find this annoying, accidentally adding all the time several items to Start, then having to ‘unpin’ them, there is an easy way to remove from the context menu the “pin to start” option. […]
If you use a desktop PC or for any reason you don’t feel there is a danger that someone else may open and use your computer, perhaps you are frustrated to have to give your password each time you start Windows. There is an easy way you can bypass this procedure. When you are inside […]
It may happen sometimes that audio stops working as if the sound card is damaged. However, if you restart Windows audio starts working again, which means that there is some configuration conflict and not a permanent hardware problem. Especially if you are in the middle of something, downloading, editing a document, whatever, to restart your […]
You may find yourself in this strange situation. You defined a slideshow of your pictures as desktop background, but when Windows starts, instead of the last open background you see only part of that picture at the top of your monitor. This ‘broken’ picture remains until the slideshow replaces it with the next picture of […]