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This PC is one of the two locations that File Explorer can open to by default. The other location is Quick Access. This PC features three types of items; folders, Devices and drives, and Network locations. Folders appear at the top and lists library folders like Downloads and Pictures and …

We share a lot of tips and tricks that involve running commands in Command Prompt on Windows 10. A lot of common things, such as pinging a server, or checking the status of your network switch are done vie Command Prompt. If you’re not comfortable using the Command Prompt beyond …

Control Panel settings can be pinned to the Start Menu much like settings from the Settings app however, there are limitations. Not all the settings that you can access from the Control Panel can be pinned to the Start Menu. Case in point; the Device Manager. You can access the …

When you copy and paste folders, all the files, and sub-folders are copied with it. The files all remain in their respective sub-folders, as they should. If you don’t need to copy files but just need to replicate a folder structure without manually creating the folders, you should use Xcopy. …

Windows 10 has a low battery threshold that you can set after which the system enters sleep. It’s meant to keep you from losing data in the event you exhaust your battery and you have unsaved work. Unfortunately, that’s the extent of battery and power-related alerts that Windows 10 gives …

If you’ve updated Windows 10 to 1909, you’ve probably noticed that the Start Menu does a new, little trick. If you hover the mouse cursor over the All Lists tab, it expands automatically. No one asked it to do that. It does it anyway. There’s no Off switch for it …

Windows 10 lets you pin any group or even a particular tab from the Settings app to the Start Menu. It’s a great way to quickly access a setting that you need to change often e.g. if you often like to change the wallpaper on your desktop or the lock …

If you buy a computer today, the best thing you can invest money in is an SSD or solid state drive. These new drives bring speed to systems that hard drives cannot, and never will be able to. SSDs tend to be more expensive than hard drives and they will …

Network drives are a great way to give different users on the same network easy access to the same files. Once you add a network drive on Windows 10, it will automatically connect to it when you connect to the network. There’s no user interaction needed. The network drive just …

EXIF data can often be a security risk, especially when it’s for photos. When people share photos, they’re careful to remove or obscure anything sensitive in it but they often tend to overlook the EXIF data that accompanies a photo file. Depending on the origin of the photos i.e., what …