Windows

Every device that is connected to the internet, whether it’s a desktop system, a laptop, a phone, a network printer, or a really smart fridge, has its own IP address. The IP address is used to identify a device and no two devices can have the same IP address. It …

Emails can be forwarded and sent as attachments. This is the preferred method for sending/sharing an email since it preserves header information which can be used to verify the authenticity of the message. That said, many people prefer email messages in PDF forms. It’s a simple way to share a …

Xbox Live is a service, and like any other service, it runs into problems. Unfortunately, this is the type of service that can’t be unavailable for too long, because if problems with it persist, users will not be able to play games anymore. It’s not an easy problem to go …

Discord is a feature-rich app but the features do not drag down its performance. The app remains robust and you won’t run into problems with it often. However, sometimes you’ll see Discord not opening. You might have closed/quit it one day, and the next day it may stop working. In …

Acrobat Reader is Adobe’s free app for opening its proprietary PDF file format. If you need to create or edit a PDF, from Adobe’s suite you will need Acrobat DC. The program isn’t free, so you will need to purchase a standard subscription to use it or to find a …

A disk, whether it’s an HDD or an SSD, is normally divided into different partitions. Even if you never create a partition, the disk itself will come with some custom partitions already created. If you take a look at the partition type, these partitions show up as system partitions and …

USB disks, like internal or external HDDs or SSDs, have a speed limit when it comes to transferring i.e., copying files. The speed has to do with many things e.g., USB 3.0 support, using a USB 3.0 port, the system that files are being transferred/copied from, etc. File transfer speeds …

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 …