Switch “Switch” is a free and open-source tool for opening our favorite programs quickly using keyboard shortcuts as well as a combination of mouse and keyboard. The doc can auto-hide after use and if you want to make it appear again, just press the Alt key and the dock will appear at the top. Similarly, you can easily open the programs using Alt + Number keys. For example, if I have Firefox in the first position, I will need to press Alt + 1 to open Firefox....

While shutdown option brings powers off the system safely and the system does not consume any energy after shutdown. Sleep option turns off the display and sometimes the hard drives, if selected but it requires power for keeping the system is sleep state. The benefit of sleep state is that when the computer comes back from sleep, it has all the open and running applications which were open before sleeping....

I did a research on CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and found out that it was related to some very essential Windows process that couldn’t read or write into the memory/pagefile. First of all we will need to see additional information related to CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error. For this, I used BlueScreenView utility to see information about the system dump files present in the computer. Just run BlueScreenView and it will show you the latest BSODs and their information....

It is also responsible for opening and closing or listening to networking ports. Network ports are used by Windows services and applications to send and receive data over a network. It is likely that your application may not be receiving any data through a specified port because the Windows Firewall is blocking that particular port. In this article, we are going to be discussing how you can check which ports your device is listening to, and which ones are being blocked by the Firewall....

This year, Microsoft will release Windows 11 version 22H2 in the second half. Although it needs the same hardware requirements as Windows 11 21H2, you still need to be sure if you can upgrade to it, even if you are already running Windows 11 on your computer. Today we are going to show you how to confirm whether or not your device will receive the Windows 11 22H2 feature update or not....

In this section, we will demonstrate how to customize these elements that will allow you to perform tasks at a click of a button, which previously took a good deal of time and effort. Before we begin, let us explain the Quick Access pane and toolbar. Quick Access pane vs. toolbar in Windows 10 Most Windows 10 users are likely to be familiar with the Quick Access pane. File Explorer opens this section by default....

Windows Search comes attached to the taskbar by default. You can either disable it, show the search bar or show only the search icon to save taskbar space. With Windows 10 1809 and above, you can convert the search into a floating search bar just like Apple Spotlight. This is convenient because you can move the search bar anywhere on the screen. Here is the default screenshot of Windows 10 search bar on the taskbar:Windows 10 Search bar And here is the floating Windows 10 search bar:The immersive Search bar in Windows 10 You can see the difference in the screenshots above....

Initially introduced in Windows 10 Professional for Workstations, the Ultimate Performance Power Plan was then introduced with Windows 10 April 2018 update. This feature is by default built into Windows, but has not been made available for devices with a battery (i.e. laptops). This is because the power consumption would be much greater and may not be worth the enhanced performance gains. This article illustrates how to enable the feature on a Windows 11 or 10 PC, even if it is disabled for your device....

There are certain signs and symbols that we need to use in official documents but have no convenient method of doing so. These symbols include the Copyright ©, Trademark ™, and Registered ® symbols. Usually, these symbols are used in conjunction within the same document. Since there are no buttons available on the keyboard to enter these symbols, people usually go online and copy these symbols to use them as their own....

If you look further, you will find that the USB device is unrecognized in the Device Manager Console and contains the following: This message is usually displayed when you plug in a USB device, a memory card, or any other thing connected via the USB port and the PC is unable to load it. This error can occur due to several different reasons. Today we are going to discuss what those reasons could potentially be and how to fix them so that you are able to restore access to your USB device....

Having an internet connection and logging in with a Microsoft account is one of the requirements of Windows 11. Previously, when pressing the Alt + F4 keys, the Microsoft OOBE experience windows would disappear and a new window would appear to allow the user to set up a local user account. Another way was to kill the “Network Connection Flow” process. These tricks are no longer effective. After some research, I have come up with another solution you can use to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and instead, with a local account....

We are here to inform you of multiple ways with various parameters that you can use to reboot your devices using the command line, for both local computers as well as remote ones. Shutdown cmdlet & switches The command used to reboot computers is “shutdown.” A number of different switches can be concatenated with this cmdlet to perform various functions. Here is a list of the switches and their uses:...

The context menu is the little pop-up menu that opens up when you right-click a file or a folder on your Desktop or through File Explorer. Windows 11 has introduced a new, more brief context menu that only provides so few options to choose from. Users now have to go the whole extra mile and click Show more options before they can finally select what they want from the more expanded context menu....

In the past, Microsoft has been adding new settings and configuration options in the Settings application, which were previously only accessible through the Windows Control Panel. Now, disks and volumes can also be managed from within Windows Settings, an application that is easier to use and to navigate through. Let us see what the new volume and disk management settings have to offer. Legacy Disk Management utility The old Disk Management utility has been around for some time (since Windows XP) and has proven to be quite useful....

.LNK is an acronym for “LINK,” because these files point to another file, folder, or application, which is known as the “target.” In this post, we are going to discuss in detail what a .LNK file is, how you can check if it’s an LNK file, what information it holds, and whether the .LNK file you are concerned about is a genuine Windows file or a malware. What is ....

Before we dig into the details of what this update offers, we would like to bring to your attention that Microsoft had earlier released KB5019509 to the Release preview channel for the Insiders. However, this stable channel release includes the older improvements, as well as a few new ones. Installing this optional update would upgrade your operating system’s build to 22621.675. It has some interesting features that you can benefit from ahead of these features being publically available in next month’s Patch Tuesday release....

This update includes several fixes and improvements, but the highlight is the SMB authentication rate limiter. This feature adds delays to brute force attacks, significantly reducing the attempts per minute. With this, there is also a new known issue with the flight. Let’s take a closer look at the improvements, fixes, and issues this update has before proceeding to install it. New in Windows 11 Build 25206 Changes to SMB Authentication Rate Limiter The SMB authentication rate limiter was first introduced in March 2022 for Windows Server....

KB5017383 was also earlier released to the Release Preview channel for the Insiders. The same update has now been flighted for the stable channel but with a different build number. This update does not bring any new features to the operating system but does include a plethora of fixes and improvements. Let us see what is update brings and then decide whether it is worth installing right now. New in KB5017383 (Build 22000....

Windows Resource Monitor Open the Run dialog and write “resmon” and the Windows Resource Monitor window will open. Then there will be graph for different options like CPU, Memory, Disk, Network. These will provide you information about each application of your system, how much it taking CPU performance and memory and size on disk and all things. So according to this monitoring, you can control your System’s performance and close the applications if they are taking large amount of memory and speed....

The following article covers all there is to know about Cloud gaming and Cloud gaming services: What is cloud gaming? Cloud gaming is a game streaming service (like video streaming) where a user can play the games on a cloud server while its video and audio is streamed to the user’s browser. Cloud gaming has several advantages including: Along with advantages, there are disadvantages of cloud gaming including: The best cloud gaming services Cloud gaming services are classified on the basis of some parameters that are recorded in the table below:FeaturesBest ServiceBest for lowest latencyGeForce NOWBest for PlayStation gamesPlayStation NowBest cloud gaming services for mobile (Android and iOS)ShadowBest for beginnersVortexBest If you have your own gaming LibraryParsecCheapest cloud gaming servicePlayStation Now, LoudPlay, GeForce NowBest cloud gaming service classification...