How often do you check the weather forecast while you’re using your computer? Why bother with opening the web browser and searching sites like Accuweather or MSN Weather? If you use the following best weather widgets, you can see the weather forecast directly on your taskbar or Windows desktop. Keep in mind that “widgets” are …
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How to Use the Reset Windows Update Tool
Updating a Windows computer isn’t all roses. While some Windows update glitches are quite easy to fix, others can be challenging. Interestingly, there are third-party troubleshooting programs that can fix almost all Windows Update problems. The “Reset Windows Update Tool” is one example. In this tutorial, we’ll review the tool, focusing on its capabilities, installation …
How to Boot into Safe Mode in All Versions of Windows
If your computer is acting up, Windows Safe Mode can help you troubleshoot problems that interrupt or prevent Windows from starting normally. This way, you can make repairs on your own without having to visit a computer repair shop. Safe Mode starts Windows in a basic state using a limited set of files and drivers …
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Fix Windows 8/10 Live Tiles Not Updating
Recently, I had a client come in with a Windows 10 PC that had live tiles that were not updating. Upon connecting up his computer, I was surprised to see that not only were the live tiles not updating, they had these strange little down arrows on them and nothing else. Before I connected the …
How To Replace a Motherboard Without Reinstalling Windows 10
Every now and then, you’ll want to make upgrades to your system hardware. The most common part to upgrade is a hard drive to a solid-state drive, or a shiny new graphics processing unit (GPU). At times, however, you might want to replace your motherboard—the bit of the computer that helps all the other parts …
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How to Access the Windows 10 Startup Folder
The Windows Startup Folder was an important folder that was easily discoverable via the Start Menu in Windows versions past. It began as far back as Windows 95 and any programs located within the Startup Folder would boot up and run anytime the computer was powered on. It used to be that whenever you booted …
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Top 10 Differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8/10
Like Windows 7 was to Windows XP (see our previous post on the differences between Windows XP and 7), Windows 8 is a “completely re-imagined” version of Windows from start to finish. It has been rewritten so that it can run not only on desktops and laptops, but also on tablet PCs in a much …
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8 Best Free OCR Software Apps to Convert Images to Text
OCR or Optical Character Recognition is a sophisticated software technique that allows a computer to extract text from images. In the early days OCR software was pretty rough and unreliable. Now, with the tons of computing power on tap, it’s often the fastest way to convert text in an image into something you can edit …
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