I’ve got 14 sticky notes on my desktop right now. Project to-dos, a Wi-Fi password for a cafe I visit once a week, SQL queries I don’t want to retype, and at least three grocery lists from different weeks that I forgot to clear. Sticky Notes is probably the most underrated app Microsoft ships, and … Read more
Skype ruled the video calling world for decades until the pandemic hit. With the start of work from home culture we thought that it will again become a household name. But instead we forgot skyping and were introduced with the new Zoom. Skyping was so popular back then, that it was included as a verb … Read more
I needed to dual-boot Ubuntu on my work laptop last month without losing the Windows 11 partition or the 1.2TB of project files already on it. The answer, as it has been since Windows Vista, is just Disk Management’s built-in Shrink Volume command. No third-party tools, no data loss, no reformatting. The operation is boring … Read more
Automate Disk Cleanup using Task Scheduler in Windows.Configure the tasks: WebTechGeek Support Tips. Windows Tech Support. For Windows 7 & Vista Scheduling Maintenance Tasks: You can automate any routine task that you perform. To do this, you can use the Task Scheduler service to schedule the task to run automatically. Not only can you schedule … Read more
A buddy of mine was complaining last week that his Plex server was stuttering whenever he opened a browser on the same box. Not a RAM issue, not a network issue. The CPU was fine on average. But foreground apps were stealing priority from the streaming service every time he alt-tabbed. This is exactly what … Read more
My girlfriend’s four-year-old Surface Go was crawling last month. Two seconds to open File Explorer, every menu animation felt like it was pushing through molasses, and scrolling a PDF was a slideshow. No malware, no bloat, just an underpowered Pentium Gold with 8 GB of RAM trying to render the full Windows 11 Fluent experience. … Read more
The cooling fans in your computer pull in a lot of dust, dirt and pet hair inside the chassis. The dust can interfere with ventilation, eventually causing computer parts to heat-up and fail. At least once a year (Every six months would be better) you need to remove the cover from your computer and thoroughly … Read more
microsoft office alternative For more than 30 years, the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and a few more bureau productivity instruments have been an essential part of the workplace. You have traditionally had to download the office software to and from your Windows computer, and some people still use Microsoft Office in this … Read more
All the computers and laptops that have installed the windows operation system, must be having Option Shutdown, Sleep and Hibernate along with log out, lock and restart and in advance, power setting hybrid sleep option also present from windows vista or 7 to all further versions till 11. Different kinds of people have several types of needs … Read more
I dual-boot a ThinkPad between Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11 and keep a shared 1 TB USB drive in NTFS for passing files between the two. Windows formats NTFS in 10 seconds from File Explorer. Ubuntu used to pretend it couldn’t even mount the thing without a driver package, and formatting one from Linux was … Read more
