Tag Archives: Windows

Monitors are plug and play. They’re some of the easiest hardware to set up and you’ll find they’re easy to connect to almost any laptop model that’s not a Macbook. The only thing you’ll be concerned with is the color profile that a monitor supports, its resolution, and the screen …

Screen brightness is a basic control on any display. You can change it to whatever suits you or if you have the hardware for it, you can use adaptive brightness. Adaptive brightness is fairly common and is found on desktops and mobiles alike. It changes the brightness of the screen …

Screen mirroring between different devices is often complicated. The complications come mostly from establishing a reliable connection between the devices. Software is what gets the job done but again, it comes down to two things; how easy it is to set up, and how reliable the connection will be. Additionally, …

Larger monitors are great for the screen real estate they provide but in order to use them, especially one that’s an HD display you have to scale it up or everything is going to be too small. Windows 10 has a built-in scaling feature that works, and it mostly works …

An iPhone doesn’t connect to a Windows 10 PC the same way it does to a Mac. That said, it is still pretty simple to connect your iPhone to a Windows 10 PC and access videos and photos from the camera roll. The iPhone shows up as a simple media …

On Windows 10, apps are supposed to remember which monitor they were launched on. When you open them, they should open on the same monitor they were open on before. That’s the principle of it, but it doesn’t always stick, especially with games. With games, it’s a bit more complicated …

Power Plans is one of the best features on Windows 10. They offer flexibility that you won’t find on other desktop operating systems and, you can customize them. For simple power management, you have the option to either favor a better battery life i.e., go with low power consumption settings, …

Windows 10 has a neat feature called power management. Power management is for the various hardware components on your computer. Hardware consumes power and Power management allows them to turn off or run in a low power state. The keyboard and mouse are one example of hardware that’s powered down, …

The context menu on Windows 10 is a UI element that any app can add options to. Windows 10 has its options in the context menu as well so, depending on how many apps you’ve installed, the context menu can get quite busy. It can also slow down. Users may …

Windows 10 supports multiple input languages. You can add as many languages as you like, and cycle through them with the Alt+Left Shift keyboard shortcut. This shortcut may not be the best. It’s easy to execute it by accident, or it could very well be part of other keyboard shortcut …