Want to know what CPU do you have in the computer and how fast it is? You don’t need to install any app to find the CPU specifications. Windows itself shows the processor information in different places. Every computer whether it is a Mac or PC must have at least one CPU or central processing [...]
You can find the Windows product key or the license key from your currently installed Windows using Command Prompt or from the Registry Editor. Finding the product key is easy just follow the given steps below and get the Windows key. If the command prompt doesn’t return the Windows key then go for the Registry [...]
When you turned on your brand new computer or start a clean installed Windows first time, there is no other user account but the one you created while completing Windows initial setup. Do you know there is an Administrator account with all the rights of Windows operations? In Windows Administrator account is disabled and hidden [...]
Many people want to edit the Windows hosts file for different purposes. You might be getting this error message “You don’t have permission to save in this location” while trying to modify and saving the file. In this guide, you will learn, what is a hosts file in Windows, the location of the hosts file, [...]
This error “A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart” appears on all Windows versions. If your computer shows this error on startup it’s mean your computer’s hard drive is failed to boot. It doesn’t mean your hard drive is dead. There are other things too which cause this error [...]
This error “The Program can’t start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.” may display on your version of Windows when you try to open any software or game after installing. Basically, it’s not a Windows error and doesn’t have to worry about anything because it can [...]
While installing Windows 7, 8/8.1 or Windows 10 you might face this error Setup was unable to create a new system partition at the partition selecting window. At that moment you formatted your drive and when you select the partition and click on next button to continue and get this error. Now, you can’t even [...]
Windows error 0x80070422 occurs when checking for new updates, downloading anything from Windows store, updating drivers from device manager online or activating Windows firewall. It’s not a big deal we will handle this little error in no time. If you have seen this error or currently facing it you are not alone and also you [...]
Have ever installed two different operating systems on your computer or laptops at the same time? Dual boot is a great way to test new or another operating system without affecting your current or primary OS. Some of us want to try every new thing released and I am one of them. Windows is releasing [...]
Microsoft Windows hide some critically important system files so a user can’t delete them accidentally from PC. Sometimes we need to remove unwanted hidden files when required. We can’t delete them until we show the hidden files, folders and drives from the Windows explorer’s folder options. Let’s see how to view hidden files, folders and [...]
Do you know your PC might run slow due to low storage space? You can get more storage space on your hard drive as lots of temp system files take loads of storage. You might be getting a Windows message “Free up storage space Your computer’s running low on storage space. A user can reclaim [...]
You can create a shortcut icon to Hibernate PC quickly directly from the Windows desktop. Once you create this icon add it to the taskbar or assign a keyboard shortcut keys to hibernate even more quickly by pressing keys combination from the keyboard. I have tested it on Windows 10 and hope this will work [...]
Virtual Memory helps your computer to run smoothly saves sudden crashes and blue screen errors. Windows uses virtual memory when your computer is out of physical RAM (random access memory). Windows creates and store virtual memory on the hard disk of your computer in shape of files called page files (pagefile.sys). It’s really important to [...]
The hibernation option is very useful compared to the sleep option. sleep puts your open documents, files, and folders in memory and takes a small amount of power as well. On the other hand, Hibernating Windows saves the state of all open documents, files, and folders in a file created on your hard disk and [...]
Capturing screenshots and sending it to someone to demonstrate something that is not easy to explain by typing or just in words. You can capture a screenshot of anything showing on your computer screen by just pressing “prt sc” (print screen) button available on your keyboard. “prt sc” will instantly copy the current screen picture [...]
Error 5 – “Access Is Denied” is a Windows error, there are plenty of reasons why this error showing, some of them we have mentioned here and also provides solutions for them. The reason of writing this guide, our website users mostly asked they have error 5 when following different guide like fixing diagnostics policy [...]
Normally to modify Windows settings for any program or hardware components we need to go through a few steps to access specific settings. There might be few settings that you frequently change like Location Privacy, Webcam Privacy or Display Settings, and going through these steps to modify it. To make this simple we can create [...]
Do you want to customize send to context menu in Windows 10 or older versions? If you don’t know what a ‘Send to’ menu is then you can find this every time whenever you right-click on any file, folder, document or media files and then select Send to from context menu that contain different options [...]
For all those Windows lover who wants to take their operating system wherever they want, portable Windows is a blessing. Now you can take copy of your Windows with you in a portable flash drive. Windows 10 and 8 offers this facility which is technically known as “windows to go”. You can install Windows on [...]
You can password protect folders in Windows is easy using a bat file. Protecting your data into a locked and hidden folder in Windows for this you may using a third-party application but here you will see how password protect and hide your data without any software. There is a script for this, don’t worry [...]
Before we learn how to rename the Administrator account in Windows, let’s see what is this admin account and why we need to change the name. There is a built-in default Windows user account with the name Administrator. When we install a Windows operating system, it comes with this hidden Administrator account and due to [...]
Switching user in Windows 8.x or Windows 7 is not very big deal, we can switch users in windows by different methods but we can make it more easy by creating a shortcut. Shortcut will help us to switch users from desktop without pressing any key or going into power options. After switching to other [...]
Windows Calculator is really powerful app to calculate some useful things like dates difference, Unit conversion (angle, area, length, time, weight and more), MPG (miles per gallon), decimal / binary conversions and much more. Most of the users usually use the built-in Windows calculator for simple math calculations and don’t know that Windows calculator is [...]
Windows 10 Technical Preview version is available for everyone to install and test the new exciting features. This is not a full version of Windows 10 so instead of installing clean Windows 10 you much either create Windows 10 virtual machine or dual boot it with existing Windows 8 or 7. When you dual booth [...]
An IP stands for internet protocols. IP address can be explained just like an address of a house. A house is represented by house number and its address etc. So the devices that are connected with internet are recognized by their IP (Internet Protocols) address. Assign Static IP in Windows IP address can be assigned [...]