Tag Archives: Troubleshoot

Windows 10 delivers updates, big and small, via Windows Updates. Windows Updates is a stock Windows 10 service and it can check for, download, and install updates on a Windows 10 system from the Settings app. The Windows Update service is great in theory but it has had a lot …

Windows 10 is prone to bugs. It’s gotten more stable over time but the bugs are far from gone. Each new feature update brings its own set of problems. Some of these problems are easy to fix while others aren’t. In either case, Windows 10 has a few tools built-in …

Apps can become unresponsive for multiple reasons. An app may be working just fine but it may freeze suddenly and stop responding, and crash or close. In some cases, the app may try to recover while in others, you will have to force close it yourself. Unresponsive apps Apps may …

An internet connection seems simple; your network is set up and all you need to connect to it is the password. If you’ve never tinkered with your network settings, you may not know much about network connectivity beyond the basics. If you’re somewhat familiar with the terms IPv4 and IPv6, …

Headphones are simple in terms of hardware; you connect the pin into the jack, and things just work. You should be able to hear audio from your system, and if your headphones have a mic, you will be able to use it with a chat app or any other app …

Connecting external monitors to a Windows 10 PC is about as easy as connecting a pair of headphones, or a mouse, or a keyboard. A monitor is detected automatically, everything on the screen adjusts, the taskbar appears where it should, and you can start distributing your windows between the two …

Windows has a built-in troubleshooting tool. It’s been a feature since before Windows Vista. The troubleshooter is generally for hardware and hardware-related problems. It can, for example, reset a network adapter but if needed, it can also change network settings and allow you to connect to a network you’re having …

The best way to troubleshoot RAM chips connected to a PC is with a Linux tool known as Memtest86. It scans the connected RAM chips and can determine the health of them. In this guide, we will show you how to use Memtest86 to troubleshoot your RAM. Getting Memtest86 Memtest86 …

Desktop operating systems offer different ways to troubleshoot problems. Most of these solutions come as third-party apps that you can run on the desktop OS but there are also built-in troubleshooting tools on most of them. The real problem arises when you no longer have an OS to boot to. …

The “NO_PUBKEY” GPG error occurs when a user adds a software repository or PPA to Ubuntu without adding the GPG signing key. Since Ubuntu’s software back-end takes security seriously, the system will not allow the user to install anything from the repository without this key, and so this error appears. …