Windows 10 has a built-in hidden emoji picker that works in any app. For example, you can use the emoji picker to type emoji in Microsoft Word. The emoji picker was first added to Windows 10 in the 2017 Fall Creators Update, and then updated in the April 2018 Update. … [Read more...] about How to Insert Emoji in Word and Other Windows Apps
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How to Hide Drive Letters in Windows 10
When browsing for files on your hard drive, Windows 10 shows the name and drive letter of your hard drives by default. Realistically though, to most users, the drive letters don't mean anything and it’s much more helpful to prioritise showing the drive name. For example, having your operating system drive named “Home (C:)” doesn’t really provide any benefit to the user over … [Read more...] about How to Hide Drive Letters in Windows 10
How to Use Virtual Desktops in Windows 10
One of the almost hidden features in Windows 10 is the ability to use multiple virtual desktops to organise your workspace. A virtual desktop is an extra desktop environment, that’s identical to your normal desktop, however, the windows and documents open in it are entirely independent. … [Read more...] about How to Use Virtual Desktops in Windows 10
How to Check the Dpi of an Image in Windows 10
When dealing with image quality, everyone is familiar with resolution, where higher resolution images have more pixels and are therefore generally of a higher quality. Another measure of image quality is DPI or Dots Per Inch. In reality, this doesn’t have much of an actual measure of image quality on a computer. It’s really designed to describe the intended quality for … [Read more...] about How to Check the Dpi of an Image in Windows 10
6 Ways to Check If a Windows 10 Account Has Administrative Privileges
To perform specific tasks, your account needs to have administrative privileges. That would explain why when you try to follow instructions, things don't turn out the way you expected them to. You may have made a mistake following instructions, or maybe your account doesn't have the administrative privileges it needs to complete the task. The good news is that there are easy … [Read more...] about 6 Ways to Check If a Windows 10 Account Has Administrative Privileges
Windows 10: Use the Command Prompt to Close a Process
Sooner or later, you're going to have to deal with a program that won't stop misbehaving. A buggy program can cause all kinds of problems, and that includes refusing to close. Sure, you could use the Task Manager or press the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys, but there are other options. One of those options is closing a process by using the Command Prompt as an administrator. … [Read more...] about Windows 10: Use the Command Prompt to Close a Process
How to Prevent Microsoft Edge From Opening Automatically
When you boot up your computer, you generally want it to launch as quickly as possible. If you always or almost always use a program, you may want it to launch automatically when you sign in. It can, however, be really annoying if a program does this when you don’t want to use it. Not only do you have to manually close the program every time, but launching it also slows down … [Read more...] about How to Prevent Microsoft Edge From Opening Automatically
Quickly Create a Sleep Timer in Windows 10
It's happened to all of us at some point in time. You have so much work to do that you have no choice but to stay up late to try to get as much done as possible. But, you can't help but doze off after a while. When this happens, you wake up a few hours later to see that your computer has been on all that time. By setting up a sleep timer on your Windows 10 computer to a time … [Read more...] about Quickly Create a Sleep Timer in Windows 10
Windows 10: How to Defrag Your Hard Drive Fast
If you’re struggling with a slow hard drive, you may have seen advice to “defrag” your hard drive. Defragging, short for defragmenting, is a process of shuffling the location of data on your hard drive to a more efficient layout and can result in a reasonable read and write speed improvement. When first using a hard-drive data is written from the top down. At some point … [Read more...] about Windows 10: How to Defrag Your Hard Drive Fast
Windows 10: Enable Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is a new feature added to Windows 10 in the May 2020 update, version 2004. GPU scheduling is the process of coordinating, prioritizing, and submitting work to the GPU for rendering. Before the introduction of the Windows Display Driver Model in Windows Vista, all data being presented to the GPU for rendering was performed on a first come … [Read more...] about Windows 10: Enable Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling