Since the launch of Windows 10, you can have more than just one desktop at your disposal, thanks to a concept called virtual desktops. This means that you can have 2 or more ‘digital worlds’ that you can create to divide your work without having to buy an actual physical external screen. In one virtual Continue reading →
Windows 10
Windows 10 is currently the newest version of Microsoft’s operating system, announced on July 2015. It’s made for desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
The OS introduced some new features and applications, such as Microsoft Edge, a new start menu, Continuum and Cortona integration.
Windows 10 has two versions: Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro.
Solve Outlook pop-up: “A program is trying to access e-mail address information”
Microsft Outlook is a very popular e-mail program, especially on Windows 10 computers and laptops. You may be using it as well, for example at home, school or in the office. But you may be annoyed with a recurrent pop-up message that is being displayed every so often. The pop-up says the following: A program Continue reading →
Guide: show the battery percentage remaining in the Windows 10 taskbar
In the control panel of Windows 10, a lot of settings can be tweaked in order to customise the operating system to make it look and behave as you want. However, some simple things are just impossible in Windows 10: for example showing the actual battery percentage in the Windows 10 system tray. One way Continue reading →
Enable ‘Inspect Element’ in the Edge Browser to View Source
The Edge browser, which is developed by Microsoft and comes pre-installed on a Windows 10 system, has certainly improved a great deal compared to some years ago. With every new update of Windows 10, Microsoft has worked hard to speed up their Edge browser, while also making it more productive, organised and safe (see Microsoft Continue reading →
Fully Uninstall OneDrive in Windows 10 (and prevent from being reinstalled again)
There are a great deal of options available for any consumer or business to back-up important files to the cloud. If you are using Windows 10, there will be automatically Microsoft’s OneDrive installed on that device. But if you prefer another back-up solution (for example: Google’s Drive, or Dropbox), you may want to fully uninstall Continue reading →
Renaming a Bluetooth Device in Windows 10
Your Windows 10 device, be it a laptop, tablet or desktop computer, is likely going to have Bluetooth built-in. Bluetooth is great for connecting various devices to your computer/tablet. I personally like to play some music while I work, so I connect my Bluetooth speakers to my Windows 10 laptop. When connecting a new Bluetooth Continue reading →
Find Your Windows 10 digital License/Product Key
Windows 10 is a versatile operating system that can be installed on almost any device: ranging from a desktop computer, to a tablet or a laptop. It is important for your own safety that you have a valid and activated Windows 10 copy installed on your workstation. To check the product key status on your Continue reading →
iPhone on Windows 10: “Device is unreachable” SOLVED
You have connected your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) with the lightening cable and are ready to copy photos and videos that you took on your device to your Windows 10 computer. However, upon opening Windows Explorer and pasting the files to your designated location, you receive the following error: Device is unreachable. Continue reading →
How to set a black cursor in Windows 10 (like MacOS)
The default mouse/cursor in Windows 10 is white with a black border and some shadow. Often, for contrast reasons or from a cosmetic point of view, you may wish you had a black cursor in Windows 10. The mouse cursor looks like MacOS. To start to change your cursor in Windows 10, go to Start Continue reading →
Windows 10: Howto Disable Taskbar Button Grouping
The Windows 10 taskbar is a often-used place because it will list all of your applications that are currently active/opened, as well as any applications that you have pinned to it. It also contains the start button, the time, … But it can get busy over there, especially if you have many applications that are Continue reading →
Howto Auto-Hide the Taskbar in Windows 10
The taskbar in Windows 10 lists your pinned and active applications so you can easily access them. However, the taskbar is also an element that is persisent on your screen and you may want to disable the taskbar in Windows 10. Disabling is a bit drastic, don’t you think? There is another way of freeing Continue reading →
Disable Automatic Updates in Windows 10
Windows 10 is the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft, the known company from RedMond. Together with this newest version of Windows, also comes the well-known Microsoft Updates. As with previous versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8, you often have to restart your computer so that updates can be installed. Continue reading →
Windows 10 update/upgrade Error Code 0x8031004a
Recently, I was in my Windows 10 Update menu to update my Windows 10 installation to the latest version so that I have the most recent security fixes and the newest functionalities for my operating system. However, I was greeted with the following error messages that prevented my update to continue/complete: There were problems installing Continue reading →
Step-by-step: Remove OneDrive from Windows 10
OneDrive is the storage service from Microsoft that comes installed with Windows 10. It also will be started on computer boot, resulting in a slower boot time. So as myself, you may wish to remove OneDrive from Windows 10. With a couple of steps, you can completely disable OneDrive from your Windows installation luckily. Step Continue reading →
Uninstall Xbox in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes preloaded with a wide range of apps. Some are very useful, but others, such as the Xbox app can take up valuable space. If you are not an Xbox user – or not even a gamer in general – you may wish to remove this app from your Windows 10 computer. But Continue reading →
Films & TV: Can’t play. Error 0x1010103
While playing a movie file with the default media player on Windows 10, Films & TV, I received the following error message: Can’t play. Choose something else to play. This item is in a format we don’t support. 0xc1010103 Here is a screenshot of the popup I received: Possibly, the file was broken in some Continue reading →
Is $Windows.~WS safe to delete on Windows 10?
On the C drive, there is a hidden folder called $Windows.~WS. My folder was 5.76 GB in size, containing 1,008 files and 103 folders. This folder contains one file, installx64.esd, that is over 2GB in size. So, is it safe to delete? Well, I would first suggest you to read my blogpost about recovering lost disk space in Windows 10 Continue reading →
Remove the search icon from the taskbar in Windows 10
By default, you will see there is a search icon in your taskbar, on the right of the start icon . Clicking the search icon will open up a search box, with the title “Start typing to search for apps, files, and settings”. But instead of clicking the search icon in your dock to search for things Continue reading →
Reinstall default build-in Windows 10 apps
I wrote how you can purge the build-in Windows 10 apps. If you have been a bit too enthusiastic and removed too much apps, here is your rescue. As in my previous post, we will need some PowerShell magic once again. Open up PowerShell with Administrator rights. Then, paste this code into the PowerShell window: Continue reading →
Remove default Apps from Windows 10
Windows 10 comes preloaded with a lot of default apps. Depending on which version you have1, you will see various apps in your start menu that you don’t want. I previously explained how to uninstall OneNote from Windows 10, but you can actually remove any app you want. The very first thing you should try Continue reading →