On Windows 10 PCs you can access UEFI Firmware Settings through the operating system. In UEFI it is possible for the OS to call back into the firmware in a standards-compliant way. Windows takes advantage of this functionality. You no longer need to remember some special keystroke which varied from motherboard to motherboard and press […]
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Safe mode starts Windows with a limited set of drivers and essential windows processes. When Windows starts in normal mode, many third-party applications start along with it. This does not happen when you are starting in safe mode. Which of the Windows files gets loaded depend on the type of safe mode you choose; the
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The Boot Options Menu is meant to be a single location for all the boot related options available in Windows. It has been available since Windows 8. The new Boot Options Menu gives you access to features like System Restore, System Image Recovery, Startup Repair, etc. If you are using UEFI, you also get access
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In Windows, it is quite easy to change the drive letters assigned to partitions. You can change the drive letter of external drives as well; Windows would remember the new drive letter the next time you plug in the same drive. You must not change the drive letter of your primary partition. Open Disk Management
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Caching in chrome can be disabled temporarily using chrome developer tools. Open developer tools by pressing CONTROL+SHIFT+I in Windows or COMMAND+OPTION+I on a Mac. This shortcut opens whichever developer tools panel was last open. In the network panel, enable the Disable cache option. An important thing to remember is this option would be in effect only as long
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Windows can be configured to log in to a specific user account automatically. This feature is very useful when performing some operation which requires you to restart your computer multiple times; like installing your motherboard’s drivers. Auto-login can also be used for making Windows startup more convenient. But you must use it only if you
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Anti-Twin is a Windows application which is one of the best tools for identifying and removing duplicate files. It is free for personal use. The duplicate removal step is very tedious in most duplicate file finders but this is not the case in Anti-Twin. The features available in Anti-Twin are not exactly unique but the
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It has become a lot easier to add and edit the PATH variable in Windows 10 since the first-anniversary update. Earlier I used to use a small program called RapidEE for this. The steps shown below work somewhat differently in older versions of Windows and in the pre-anniversary update Windows 10. Go to the start
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Regjump is a small command line tool from Sysinternals which lets you jump directly to a registry key when supplied with a registry path. Sysinternals is currently owned by Microsoft and all their tools are reliable. Regjump works with normal paths and paths which include abbreviations like HKLM, HKCU, etc. This is a very useful
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For what is essentially an image viewing application Faststone image viewer has a surprising number of useful editing features. One of it’s most powerful features is the batch convert feature. Batch convert gives you a lot of options like resize, crop, compress, rotate, color adjustments, add watermark etc. Let’s take a look at the resize
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