Locking the PC in Windows 10 prevents your computer from unauthorized access whenever you are not using it. It lets you leave your PC without shutting it down so that you can resume your work whenever you want to and you do not have to turn on your PC again. In this article, we will ... Read more
Windows 10 provides you with the flexibility to change the appearance of different icons. You can modify and customize how these icons look according to your own taste. This customization can be done for various purposes. Some of them are listed below: To make your environment look catchy and trendy To make your environment look ... Read more
PDF stands for Portable Document Format and it is the most popularly used file saving format. Normally, the files that are created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint are converted into PDF once they are completely written. This conversion to the PDF offers the following benefits: It enables the documents to be printed easily with ... Read more
If you want to access a name-based website that you created e.g. in ISPConfig before the DNS records are set up, edit the hosts file on your workstation computer and add a line like this: 192.168.0.100 www.mydomain.com mydomain.com Edit hosts file on macOS X To edit the hosts file on a computer running macOS X, ... Read more
A firewall is used to keep unauthorized users from accessing files and resources on your computer. Unfortunately, the Windows firewall is not perfect and can cause harm to your computer. There is better firewall software available for windows, so you might want to turn it off and use some other software. Below are the steps to ... Read more
Everybody owning a PC has had to deal with the resulting degradation of the system boot. You can use the Event Viewer to watch precisely how it takes for your machine to start and shut down. The Event Viewer allows us to easily monitor any fault or warnings. What you might not know is that ... Read more
If your Windows installation starts slower after you defragmented the hard disk, it might be necessary to run the defragmentation utility on the boot files too which were normally skipped when running the defrag utility. Windows Disk Defragmentation for boot files To defragment the boot files, click on "Start" > "Run..." and then enter the ... Read more
The ability to restore tabs in Internet Explorer from a previous browsing session is undoubtedly useful, but in the case of a shared device, it could also pose a privacy threat. If you want to close the loophole, you can disable Internet Explorer session recovery. In this article, you will see how to completely stop ... Read more
This article shows you how to get the details of your operating system with PowerShell. It shows how to get the operating system name, the OS Architecture, and the machine name. Here we go. Step 1. Open PowerShell with elevated privileges. Step 2. To check operating system name. (Get-WMIObject win32_operatingsystem).name Step 3. To check if ... Read more
A new Windows 10 feature allows the elimination of the asterisks that hide passwords when entered. Although this can be helpful sometimes to confirm that passwords are correctly entered, it is also a potential threat and can be disabled. It is a helpful feature in terms of protection. In this article, we will guide you ... Read more