Windows

Windows 10 allows users to take a screenshot with the Win+PrintScrn keyboard shortcut. This feature saves a full-screen screenshot to the Pictures library and when the screenshot is captured, the screen flashes to indicate that a screenshot has been taken. If you’re not a fan of the screen flashing and …

Netflix, as a service, may seem simple since it’s video streaming. Some might think it’s the same as YouTube but Netflix offers paid, copyright-protected content for streaming, and in order to protect the content from piracy, it has various checks in place to block tools that may be used to …

The partition style of a disk determines how files are written and storage sectors on the disk are managed. It’s a complicated concept but end-users using Windows 10 rarely have to contend with it since the OS can be installed from, and can read/write to drives on both the MBR …

If you have a Windows 10 system that is a few years old, you will find it struggles when used for processor-heavy tasks. This is to be expected because apps update and add new features in anticipation of being run on more modern systems that have better, more capable hardware. …

Lag of any sort, whether it’s in a game or if it’s on your desktop when you’re trying to type or select something, is hard to work with. With games, lag is often caused by a slow internet connection or stress on your system’s resources. With hardware lag, e.g., when …

Minecraft offers online servers that allow players to play the game in large groups, and in elaborate maps. The online gameplay is one of the main reasons that the game is so popular. The servers themselves are easy to set up and many of them are online around the clock …

Connecting a pair of Bluetooth headsets on Windows 10 is fairly easy. They tend to work out of the box but sometimes, a Bluetooth device that you’ve paired, and previously connected to from your system stops working. Often, the only way to get it to connect again is to unpair …

A system that has an Nvidia GPU can install drivers for it via Windows Updates or by installing the GeForce Experience app. The GeForce Experience app does more than manage drivers. It also adds features that help games run better, and it adds the ShadowPlay feature to your system allowing …

Recording and streaming gameplay has become quite popular and there’s no shortage of apps that you can use to record gameplay or stream it live. In fact, Windows 10 offers both recording and streaming as a stock feature. Other apps used to record and/or stream gameplay are OBS and the …

Screen tearing is when multiple bits from multiple frames in a video all display at once on the screen. Instead of seeing a solid scene, you get these smaller parts of multiple frames all jumbled into one. This may be minimal where it just looks like two or three images …