Confirmed: Windows 10 Home users to receive forced updates
About two months ago rumors came up that updates could become mandatory for machines running editions of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.
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What you need to know about Windows 10's Game DVR feature
Microsoft's operating system Windows 10 ships with game DVR capabilities that some Windows users can make use of to record in-game videos.
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How to make Firefox or Chrome the default browser in Windows 10
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system ships with Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
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Microsoft Fix It to improve Windows performance
Microsoft released a Fix It solution for all current versions of Windows that diagnoses the performance of the system to improve it if issues are found during t
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Questions Microsoft needs to answer before the Windows 10 launch
Microsoft Windows 10 will be released in two week's time to Windows Insiders and users who have accepted the free upgrade promotion that Microsoft ran on Window
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Windows 10: accessing program-specific volume controls
Microsoft modified how system tray controls such as Volume work in recent builds of Windows 10.
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Wallpapers Bot brings thousands of wallpapers to your system
Thousands of sites on the Internet offer free wallpapers which make dedicated wallpaper programs for operating system something that most users don't require to
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Windows 10 Bug: DoSVC files occupy all hard drive space
So I started my PC running Windows 10 as usual and noticed on Steam that there was an update for Team Fortress 2 available.
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Microsoft details which features Windows 10 Home and Pro users don't get
If you plan to buy Windows 10 when it comes out, either retail, as a system builder copy or through a PC or tablet, you have the choice between Windows 10 Home
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Computerbase: you have 30 days to downgrade Windows 10
Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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What's going to happen to Windows 7 and 8 when Windows 10 comes out?
Microsoft's newest version of Windows for desktop PCs and tablets is going to be released on July 29, 2015.
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5 New Windows 10 features you may like
Windows 10 ships with several big changes and features, for instance Cortana, the digital voice controlled assistant or Microsoft Edge, a new web browser that r
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Build 10158
Microsoft just pushed out a new build of its upcoming operating system Windows 10 to Fast Ring users of the Windows Insider program which upgrades it to build 1
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How to disable web search in Windows 10's start menu
The search in Windows 10 returns local files, programs and settings but also web results by default.
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How to grab a free genuine copy of Windows 10
The newest version of Windows, Windows 10, will be released on July 29 to a worldwide audience.
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Pin Windows Settings to the Windows 10 Start Menu
Microsoft reintroduces a proper start menu in its upcoming operating system Windows 10 after throwing the start menu to the trash in Windows 8 and reviving it i
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Save Windows 10 apps to other drives
The following guide provides you with instructions on how to move individual apps already installed on a machine running Windows 10 to another system, and to se
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A first look at Windows Firewall Notifier 2
Windows Firewall Notifier, which we reviewed back in 2011 for the first time, is a third-party program that improves the usability of the default firewall that
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How to enable Developer Mode in Windows 10 to sideload apps
If you are running a recent version of the Windows 10 operating system then you may have noticed a new "For developers" option in the operating system's setting
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How Windows 10's Quick Access feature differs from Favorites
The favorites folder in Windows' default file explorer Windows Explorer allows you to display custom folders in the Explorer sidebar for fast access.
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How to display the Windows 10 upgrade icon if it is not visible
Microsoft runs a promotion currently on systems running Windows 7 or Windows 8.
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How to run command prompt commands from desktop shortcuts in Windows
If you need to run command prompt commands regularly in Windows, it may be useful to save the command somehow so that you can run it whenever the need arises wi
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Windows 10: what you need to know before you upgrade
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system will be released July 29, 2015 for PC and tablets.
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How to block Windows 10 Upgrade notifications in earlier versions of Windows
Windows 7 and 8.
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Windows 10 is more or less feature complete
Microsoft released a new preview build to Fast Ring testers of Windows 10 two days ago which introduced a series of improvements over previous versions.
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Microsoft promises to improve Windows Store quality, again
Microsoft announced plans yesterday to enforce "a more robust approach to the app certification policy for both new and existing apps to ensure customers can ea
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Clearing away confusion about Windows 10's free for a year offer
When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be available as a free upgrade for users running Windows 7, Windows 8.
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Windows Update error 0x80246017 continues to plague users
If you have set up a test system with a preview build of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, you may have encountered the update error 0x80246017 before.
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This happens when you install a "Fix My PC" program
You have probably come across ads before that promise to fix issues that you are having with your PC.
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Windows 10 Home and Pro: automatic updates could become mandatory
If you run a preview build of Windows 10 on a computer currently you may have noticed that it is not possible to modify the operating system's update behavior.
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Is Microsoft's Windows 10 Candy Crush Saga deal bad for consumers?
Microsoft announced today that its upcoming operating system Windows 10 will ship with the popular match-3 game Candy Crush Saga.
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Microsoft reveals Windows 10 editions
Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 10 will ship in three consumer editions and three Enterprise and education editions.
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How to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service in Windows
Windows 7 and 8.
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What is wsappx in Task Manager and why does it cause high CPU?
Wsappx is a legitimate Windows service host process that runs the services Windows uses to install, update, license and remove Microsoft Store apps.
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Free Upgrade to Windows 10 Final for all Windows Insider users?
Microsoft announced not long ago that Windows 10 would be available as a free upgrade for eligible systems for the first year.
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Experience classic Windows versions in your browser
While it is theoretically still possible to install past -- and now unsupported -- Windows operating systems on modern machines, it may be difficult to do so es
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Will Microsoft ship Windows 10 with a dark theme?
One of the first things that comes to my mind when I think of Windows 10 is how light and bright the default theme of it is.
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How to move Windows 10 apps to another drive to save space
While most apps for Windows 10 are considerable small in size, there are some games and larger apps available for the system that occupy hundreds of Megabytes o
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Windows 10: 5 things I like
I'm fairly critical when it comes to new software versions regardless of whether it is an update to a web browser I use (Firefox) or the underlying operating sy
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Windows 10 Insider Preview 10074 brings back Aero Glass
Microsoft pushed the curtain away and revealed new information about its upcoming operating system Windows 10 yesterday on the first day of the BUILD 2015 confe
