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tutorial How to configure your touchpad in Windows 10

How to configure your touchpad in Windows 10

If you use a laptop, a 2-in-1 device, or any other kind of mobile computer, you are also probably using a touchpad. Therefore, you should set your touchpad to work the way you want it. Windows 10 gives you many options for handling simple settings like adjusting the touchpad sensitivity, along with advanced settings for configuring touchpad gestures that trigger different actions. Of course,

The Windows 10 system tray - How to show or hide icons!

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  • Radu Tyrsina
  Located on the right side of the taskbar, the system tray, correctly called the Notification area, has been a part of Windows for over 20 years. It kept on improving since it was first introduced with Windows 95, providing easy access to system functions, notifications, and applications. The Windows 10 system tray is more customizable than ever before, as you get to configure which system and apps icons are

Reviewing the Epson EcoTank L5190 all-in-one ink tank printer with ADF

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Epson is a famous brand when it comes to printers, and especially to multifunctional ones, like the EcoTank L5190. This printer can also work as a scanner, copier, and fax machine. One of its key features is the EcoTank cartridge-free printing system. Epson has been implementing it in many of their printers, and it involves using refillable ink tanks that can be refilled with cheap ink bottles, instead of expensive
tutorial How to open (mount) or eject (unmount) ISO files in Windows 10

How to open (mount) or eject (unmount) ISO files in Windows 10

In Windows 10, File Explorer can open and eject ISO disc images without requiring users to install third-party apps for this task. This feature comes in handy when you are trying to work with disc images, view and interact with their content. In this article, we show you the straightforward process of using File Explorer to mount and unmount any ISO image file you

How to use the Get Help app in Windows 10 to contact Microsoft's support service

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Part search engine, part spam bot, and part portal for reaching customer support agents, the Get Help app provides several ways, most of them successful, to get you answers to your tech-support questions. This article aims to show you how to launch and use the Get Help app in Windows 10, and what is the fastest way to reach a human support agent. There is a lot to go over,

Desktop.ini - What is this file? Why are there two of them on my desktop?

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  • Radu Tyrsina
If you've recently tinkered with File Explorer's settings in Windows, you might be surprised to discover some files called desktop.ini in all the folders on your computer or device. The two desktop.ini files present on your Desktop are the most noticeable and raise a lot of questions: What are these files and why are there two of them on your Desktop? What purpose do they serve? How do you get
tutorial The complete guide to setting the default apps in Windows 10

The complete guide to setting the default apps in Windows 10

Do you want to know how to change the default apps used by Windows 10 for activities like viewing pictures, or watching movies? Do you want to set a new app as the default for a particular file type, like images with the PNG file extension? Do you need a new default app to be used for a specific protocol? Then, you are in

Overclocking the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs. Ryzen 5 3600X: Do you get similar performance?

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  • Radu Tyrsina
The AMD Ryzen 5 3600X processor has base and boost clocks that are only 200 MHz faster than the ones offered by the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, and is sold at 50 dollars more. Some users prefer to save some money, buy the cheaper model, and overclock it to match the more expensive AMD Ryzen 5 3600X. Is this a good idea? What kind of performance do you get when

How to activate the Hibernate option in Windows 10

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  • Radu Tyrsina
When you open the Power menu in Windows 10, you see the options for Sleep, Shut Down, and Restart. What if you want to add the Hibernate option to this menu? To use this feature, you have to activate it manually. That's why, in this guide, we will give you step-by-step information on how to enable the Hibernate option in Windows 10, so that it is displayed in the Power

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor review: The best price/performance ratio!

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  • Radu Tyrsina
AMD's new lineup of Ryzen processors has made some exceptional performance improvements compared to its predecessors. And it also provides excellent value compared to similar processors sold by Intel. With the release of the Ryzen 5 3600, AMD has reached new heights and conquers the mainstream and value processors market. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 offers six cores and twelve threads clocked at a base speed of 3.6 GHz and a

Notification area cleaner: 2 ways to reset the notification area icons in Windows

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Do you need to remove obsolete icons from the notification area on the Windows taskbar? Do you see icons for apps that are no longer installed, and you want to get rid of them? While you can do this with dedicated apps, a simple trick is to remove two registry values and then restart the explorer.exe process in Windows. Here are two methods for cleaning the icons shown in the
tutorial 2 ways to find out when a partition was created in Windows

2 ways to find out when a partition was created in Windows

Have you ever needed to know when an NTFS partition was created or when Windows first initialized a drive and made it available for use? Although there are no easy, user-friendly ways to find out, we know two different methods by which you can find this information, by yourself. If you are curious to learn, read on: 1. Find out when a partition

How to track which apps use the most data in Windows 10

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Do you need to find out which apps use the most data on your Windows 10 laptop, tablet, or desktop PC? Few people know that Windows 10 stores such data for the last 30 days, for WiFi, Ethernet, and Cellular connections. This data is automatically logged, and accessing it is easy. Here is how to track how much data is used by your apps in Windows 10: [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] NOTE: This

How to turn off your activity history, and the Timeline, in Windows 10

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  • Radu Tyrsina
In recent versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called the Timeline. However, most users refer to it as the Task View's app history. This feature stores the history of your activities in Windows 10, on Microsoft's cloud servers (if you want to) and synchronizes it across your Windows 10 computers and devices. If you do not use this feature and you want Windows 10 to stop

What is Turbo Boost or Precision Boost when it comes to processors?

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  • Radu Tyrsina
When you look for a new computer processor to buy, you stumble upon technicalities such as CPU base clock or CPU boost speed. Did you wonder what that means? While all processors have a base clock (operating frequency) that is in the range of a few Gigahertz, modern processors also advertise higher turbo boost speeds. Whether you're looking into AMD or Intel processors, all of them show off with their

7 ways to keep tabs on your systems' performance with the Task Manager

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Have you ever wanted to know how much of your processor's power is being used at a particular time? Or maybe how much free RAM was left for your favorite game to use? How about how much of your video card's power is used? All these are essential system resources without which apps and games cannot run well. If you want to see statistics as well as real-time information, you

Performance comparison: Using AMD Ryzen 5 3600X on X570 vs. X470 motherboards

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Do you love the new processors from AMD Ryzen 3000 series? You already have a desktop PC with a Ryzen processor, and you want to know whether you should also buy a new motherboard alongside your new processor? If you have a motherboard with the previous X470 chipset, here is a detailed performance comparison against the newer X570 chipset for the AMD Ryzen 3000 processors. We used the AMD Ryzen
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