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Recording audio input is easy; all you need is a mic. Laptops have mics built-in and you can connect external mics to them as well if you’re looking to record better audio. What’s slightly complicated is when you need to record audio from an app. If you try to record …

PowerToys was a set of utilities that Microsoft released many, many years ago. These utilities were aimed at power users but lots of end users found use in them as well. As is with many useful and well-loved things that Microsoft develops, they were eventually discontinued. Microsoft has decided to …

Snip & Sketch is replacing the Snipping tool on Windows 10. If you were to launch the Snipping tool now, you’d see a message at the bottom telling you to give this new tool a try. It’s a good tool but it doesn’t work quite the same way that the …

When you need to set a profile picture, a contact photo, or a wallpaper on Windows 10, a simple PNG or JPEG file will do the trick. Windows 10 doesn’t force you to use a specific file format for images and works with most common ones. That said, when you …

VLC player is known for its features and its ability to play a myriad of file types. Its interface is nothing to write home about. It’s a plain, no non-sense UI that doesn’t care much for design, usability, or even accessibility. If you do not like the default UI, you …

The Windows registry is not something you should edit if you don’t know what you’re doing, or if you don’t know how to back up the various entries you want to edit. In fact, even if you know your way around the registry, a backup is still necessary because if …

Microsoft is breaking things in Windows 10 again. A recent update, KB4511555, has resulted in high CPU usage on many systems. High CPU usage is a common enough bug on Windows 10 but this particular bug is because the update has broken something in Cortana/Windows Search. The good news is …

Long before Microsoft added Snip & Sketch to Windows 10, before the Win+Print Screen feature was added, there was the Snipping tool. It’s been a part of Windows for a long time though, with the arrival of Snip & Sketch, it’s days are numbered. The tool is still present on …

A while back, Intel released special drivers for their newer CPU models. These modern drivers came with their own problems; they wouldn’t install on systems with supported CPUs. Users were able to force install the driver but Intel discouraged it to the point they removed the file that was used …

Website load times have improved over the years. This is in part due to how websites are now built but also because there are now more sophisticated tools that help make the content ‘lighter’, or to optimize it for better viewing and load times. One such tool is a progressive …