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Although it’s never recommended to skip a new version of Windows 10 as they’re important to maintain devices supported with the latest security improvements and to receive new features, these kind of updates aren’t those regular monthly updates. Windows 10 version 2004 is an entire new version that requires reinstallation, a process that can cause unwanted problems. In addition, during the early days, some errors and bugs are expected as testing new releases on every hardware configuration is very challenging....

Drivers are programs that control devices in your computer — this is the way that Windows can talk and understand every device in your system –, whether it is a printer, sound, video, keyboard, etc.; every device has to have a driver. While Windows 7 and Windows Vista will recognize thousands of devices that you may install in your system using the Plug & Play feature, it is a good idea to create a backup of the already installed drivers....

PowerRename is an option that will appear in the context menu for advanced bulk renaming using simple search and replace or regular expression matching. While you type in the search and replace input fields, the feature will show you a preview of the items that you’ll rename. In addition, you can clear each specific item to include or exclude from the operation in the preview area. If you’re not familiar, back on the Windows 95 era, PowerToys was a useful tool designed to further customize the experience, and the tool is back to improve the Windows 10 experience....

The new default behavior is set to paste a link as a hyperlink with the title of the page, but you can change the settings to paste the link as a plain web address. In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to change the default behavior of the enhanced copy and paste experience available for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Change copy and paste formats for links on Microsoft Edge Use copy and paste formats for links on Microsoft Edge...

For example, if you connect a drive (USB flash drive, external hard drive, or secondary hard drive) that was formatted on another device, the drive letter may conflict with another storage device on your computer. You prefer using a specific letter for a drive. Or you’re trying to organize the letters in a specific order. Whatever the reason it might be, starting with build 20175 (Dev Channel), Windows 10 introduces a new experience to manage disks and volumes from within the Settings app, which also includes the ability to change the letter of a drive....

In a nutshell, the UEFI firmware instructs the system to perform essential functions like starting up. It also finds and configures the hardware like processor, memory, hard drive, and others so (in this case) Windows 11 can boot. UEFI is similar to BIOS (Basic Input and Output System). However, it was designed to provide greater security features and overcome the limitations of the older technology, such as support for larger hard drives, faster boot times, and more....

You’re able to use Control Panel’s Color and Appearance to customize color accent, but the OS removed this option with the Anniversary Update. Also, there was a workaround that involved editing the Registry, but it wasn’t practical, and it didn’t work for many users. Fortunately, on “Windows 10 version 1703”, Microsoft is introducing a new color pickers to set any accent color you want to see throughout the OS, and there is even an option to select a custom color when setting a solid color as background on your desktop....

Years ago, when we started to see PC manufacturers including a recovery partition on new systems instead of shipping the recovery discs, we thought it was a thing of saving cost more than being practical, as including a hidden partition with the recovery image takes a chunk of the disk space in the main hard drive. However, today hard drives come with a lot of space and seeing that most Windows devices do not include a DVD-drive, having a dedicated recovery partition can be very valuable to recover quickly without the need of having to install drivers and programs, and you don’t have to keep track of physical discs....

If you ever wanted to get access to your computer content (e.g., documents, music and even videos) while away without the need of storing them in the Cloud or connect to your home computer securely, there are different ways to do this, such as, using your Windows Home Server or using a Windows Live Mesh account, and many others solutions. But there is a great way to also do this with a really handy tool built into Windows 7 Home Premium or higher that not many people know about....

While this isn’t a problem as you’re intending to connect to a different network, you probably thought that this was a default behavior on Windows 10. However, it’s not, automatically trying to connect to a wireless hotspot is the work of Wi-Fi Sense. What’s Wi-Fi Sense on Windows 10? When you sign-in with a Microsoft account to your computer or Windows 10 Mobile device, Wi-Fi Sense collects information about the networks you connect....

The feature has been available since version 1903, and it comes enabled by default after a clean installation or on newly manufactured devices. Starting with version 2004, Windows 10 is introducing new commands for the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command tool, which allows you to determine if Reserved Storage is configured as well as to enable or disable the feature. In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to enable or disable Reserved Storage using the DISM commands on Windows 10 version 2004....

Starting with this new version, Microsoft Edge is introducing new “Tracking prevention” settings, which allows to choose among three different levels of privacy, including Basic, Balanced, and Strict to prevent malicious and advertisement companies from collecting your activities and other valuable information. While all the levels offer features to block malicious trackers, the level of advertisement tracking will be different depending on the privacy level that you select. In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to enable and configure the tracking prevention feature in Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 as well as for Windows 8....

When using Google Chrome sometimes you may have noticed that you can’t access websites under the Microsoft domain, such as your Microsoft Account, Windows Store, Xbox and support sites. Usually, the browser will display a “This site can’t be reached” message when trying to load one of the sites if you have previously signed in using a Microsoft account. The problem appears to be an issue with Cookies stored in Chrome when you browse a Microsoft site....

The feature is very straightforward. If you want to send a file or link to another device, you just invoke the Share experience (right-click on file or clicking the share button on Microsoft Edge), and select the device you want to send the piece of content to. Then the receiving device gets a notification to accept or deny the transfer. If the user accepts the transfer the file will download in the Downloads folder, or the link will open with Microsoft Edge....

However, if you have one of the consoles and rarely use it, you may want to completely power it off instead of keeping it on, wasting energy and shorting the device’s lifespan. Or if you are experiencing problems, sometimes fully shutting it down for a while may help to resolve the issue. This guide will teach you two easy ways to turn off your Xbox Series X, S, or One console....

In this article today, we are going to highlight Windows Live Mail 2011 core features and learn how to install & where to go if you need to change settings. Windows Live Mail 2011 core features: Easy to organize multiple email accounts and emails. Group conversations from the same subject. Send tons of high quality pictures easily and fast, because of the integration with SkyDrive. Search is built-in right in your inbox, which makes easier to find messages....

The operating system also gives you security protection from threats such as malware and ransomware, and users will get a fast and modern work environment with background updates reducing downtime while boosting productivity. Although Google offers many Chromebooks from different manufacturers that come preloaded with ChromeOS, the company now provides the ChromeOS Flex variant to give old computers a second life, especially for devices not compatible with Windows 11. This guide will teach you the steps to install ChromeOS Flex on an old Windows-based computer....

Using the Media Creation Tool to upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update is the same as using Windows Update or the Update Assistant. During this process, you will install the new version of Windows 10, and you’ll be able to keep your personal files, settings, and apps. Typically, you want to upgrade manually when your PC is having problems using Windows Update. For example, when the update gets stuck downloading, the installation fails and rolls back to the previous version, or your device is not seeing the update automatically....

Windows File Recovery is a free command line tool that is capable of recovering a lot of file formats from the system’s hard drive, external USB storage, or SD cards that have been permanently deleted, and you can’t recover from the Recycle Bin. However, if you want to increase the chances of successful recovery, you must use the tool immediately as new deleted files still exist on the drive, but they’re marked for deletion, and they can get overwritten as new files are created....

When you use the Settings UI or JSON option to modify the Windows Terminal global settings or individual profiles (Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL), the app saves the configuration into the Settings.json file, and every time you save changes, the app creates a backup automatically. If you are having issues with running the Windows Terminal after making configuration changes, you can always clear the contents or delete the file to reset the terminal settings to its default....