Windows

Virtual desktops on Windows 10 haven’t changed much over the years. They are more or less in the same shape they were in when originally introduced. This is despite the fact there’s potential for the feature to be truly useful. It’s now just even with virtual desktops on macOS. You …

Windows users like to customize their desktop. The OS has generally had room for a lot of changes even if most of them are made via third-party apps. Rainmeter is one popular app that most people use to transform how their system works. Out of the box, Windows 10 lets …

Video editing apps aren’t uncommon but even paid apps don’t have a full set of video editing features. The feature many might miss is a crop feature. If you need to crop a video and you’re on Windows 10 system, Handbrake is the tool for the job. It’s powerful so …

Windows Snap splits a monitor down the middle allowing an app to take up one half of the screen, and a second app to take up the other half. This is how Snap has worked for ages and no real change has been made to it. In a way, it’s …

The Settings app on Windows 10 gives you an excellent, visual look at how storage is being consumed on your system. In fact, if you connect an external hard drive to your system, the storage feature extends to it as well. It’s a good feature but it has its occasional …

Windows 10 1903 has a few new UI changes but one of the more obvious one is the blur that’s now applied to the login screen background. Once you dismiss your lock screen, you see the login screen where you have to enter your password, or PIN. It has the …

If you’re planning on getting a second monitor for your work station, it is always a good idea to get one that supports the same resolution as the monitor you plan to use it with. When you have multiple monitors set up on Windows 10, you have to align them …

The new Light theme on Windows 10 isn’t the best that Microsoft has put out. The default theme on Windows 10 before 1903 was released was much, much better. The current light theme has odd UI problems such as no color on the taskbar. If you prefer to use the …

Keyboards come in all sorts of physical layouts. Some have more keys than others and you may or may not find them all useful. The thing is, even if you don’t use a key on your keyboard, it’s still there. It can be remapped but if you prefer it to …

Laptops, and some desktops, have useful light indicators that signal when the battery needs to be charged or is charging, the read/write instances of the hard disk, the state of the Caps key, the camera on/off light, and more. These indicators, and what they do, are programmed so that an …