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In the first of a weeklong series of Surface tips, we show how to seamlessly transition your Surface Book from laptop to clipboard or creative canvas. As we’ve noted before, the Link Removed has many uses: a high-performance laptop for superior productivity, a creative canvas to complement...

Ocassionally, some shotcuts on my desktop (not all of them) that refer to folders stop working unless I reboot. Then they work again. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Turns out the deal from Newegg for Office 365 Personal can be used to add a year to your existing subscription. read more Continue reading...

Hello: The installation of this new update works perfectly, and everything is working well. But during installation the following files were created "$WINDOWS.~BT, Windows.old and $WINRE_BACKUP_PARTITION.MARKER (Size = 0 KB)" Can I delete these files that take up too much space? How can I...

This may work for you. What I did was do a clean install of Windows 10, and not an upgrade from Windows 8.1. I have not had a freeze in several days, (keeping eyes,fingers, and toes crossed) :)

See how Cortana and Bing can help you get in the Halloween spirit on Lumia and Surface. Link Removed Only a few days remain before All Hallows’ Eve (better known as Halloween) arrives this weekend. If you have yet to find that perfect costume or scary movie to watch, then maybe Bing and...

My Quick Launch area is set to Autohide. The problem I have is, after I have booted and used the computer for a while, I can no longer get the cursor to the top of the Quick Launch area. If I go beyond a certain height with the cursor, The Quick Launch area hides.' That means that I can no...

The video option on your Windows Phone isn’t the only way to capture the passage of time. Be creative and experiment with time-lapse photography. Oxforddictionaries.com defines time-lapse as: “the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that...

Casting your device's screen to a remote display is now part of the Connect setting in Windows 10. read more Continue reading...

Using an earlier tip, this How To shows you how to create folder shortcuts to hidden Windows 10 folders. read more Continue reading...

There's a number of Windows 10 system folders that can be accessed if you know their Windows reserved names. read more Continue reading...

A setting causes screen captures to be automatically saved to OneDrive. Here's how it works and how to configure it. read more Continue reading...

A setting change can make the onscreen keyboard more responsive to Windows 10 desktop apps. read more Continue reading...

Modify the default actions when you insert a removable drive or memory card on Windows 10. read more Continue reading...

With new Web browsers comes new ways of making them work for you. We've collected all our Microsoft Edge how-tos in one place. You'll have your browser working just like you want it to in no time. read more Continue reading...

Friend of the Gallery, Abhijit Jana, recently posted a couple tips for those of you Kinect v2 Dev's moving to Windows 10. Running Kinect for Windows applications on Windows 10 – Things you should verify Running a Kinect v2 device and a Kinect for Windows application on Windows 10 is not...

For the life me I cannot figure it out. Every day windows 10 has a bluescreen of death. Majority of them are Memory Managements as this one is now. I have attached the entire file for the crashes its been having so far. Does anyone happen to know whats going on? It never did this in windows 7...

You can make settings adjustments in Windows 10 to free up more space for pinned apps. read more Continue reading...

If you are not ready for the Windows 10 upgrade but made a reservation these steps will help you keep it off your system. read more Continue reading...

The Mail app for Windows 10 is basically just an email reading application with limited features included. Email folder management is pretty limited, too. read more Continue reading...