Category: Windows

  • User Account Control : A Windows 10 Security Feature

    User Account Control : A Windows 10 Security Feature

    User Account Control: An Introduction The User Account Control, or UAC in short, comes in picture whenever you or a program you are running attempts to perform a system administrator task.  The UAC asks for a user consent before commencing the task or action. It does so to alert you that this action could be harmful to your Windows…

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  • Windows 10 Security Features: The UEFI

    Windows 10 Security Features: The UEFI

    Starting with Windows 8, every windows machine requires to run UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. This was the licensing requirement binding on manufacturers who used Microsoft’s Windows 8 Operating System on the machines they manufactured. Having UEFI on Windows 10 is part of licensing requirement for Windows 10, the post Windows 8 version, too.…

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  • SmartScreen Filter: A Windows 10 Security Features

    SmartScreen Filter: A Windows 10 Security Features

    Microsoft had introduced A Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 for protecting Windows PCs against suspicious websites someone could visit on the World Wide Web. However, this filter checked only suspicious websites, not every website, someone visited using IE7 on Windows PCs. In the next version of Internet Explorer, IE8, Microsoft extended the protection to…

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  • Windows Defender Protects Windows 10 In An Amazing Way

    Windows Defender Protects Windows 10 In An Amazing Way

    Windows 10 is equipped with built-in security measures to help protect your data against known and emerging security threats. These measures include Windows Defender, SmartScreen, UEFI, User Account Control and Windows Firewall. However, in this post I will explain Windows Defender, one of the very important Windows 10 security features. To learn about other features…

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  • Virtual Desktops Are An Easy Way To Categorize Browsing

    Virtual Desktops Are An Easy Way To Categorize Browsing

    The Virtual Desktops is nothing but Multiple Desktops. This great feature of Windows 10 provides you with a way to create more than one desktops on your device’s screen. You can use one desktop each for your  each category of works. Of course, you yourself have to define this category. On one desktop you can do your daily works like mail and…

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  • Personal Assistant: Cortana, A Windows 10 Feature

    Personal Assistant: Cortana, A Windows 10 Feature

    When you turn your Windows 10 PC on and Cortana, your personal assistant, is enabled on it, she is ready to interact with you and help you with almost anything a real personal assistant can do. Thus, Cortana, your virtual assistant, is ready to help you on your PC. Your Personal Assistant, Responds to “Hey,…

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  • Windows 10 Features: Cortana

    Windows 10 Features: Cortana

    Cortana: An Introduction Launched initially on Windows Phone, Cortana is Microsoft’s digital personal assistant for the users of Windows 10 powered devices including PCs and phones. Cortana is one of the most important of Windows 10 features. When you launch your Windows 10 PC and you have not yet set her up, your desktop looks like the…

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  • Microsoft Edge Browser Is A Fast And Feature Rich Browser

    Microsoft Edge Browser Is A Fast And Feature Rich Browser

    Microsoft Edge Browser in Windows 10 is a better and faster browser than those that came with previous versions of Windows. It has many cool features. I will navigate through those features in the following sections. Microsoft Edge Browser Supports Making Web Notes Microsoft Edge allows you to make notes and highlight the text on a webpage. You can…

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  • Microsoft Edge: A Windows 10 Feature

    Microsoft Edge: A Windows 10 Feature

    Microsoft Edge is the new, light and fast browser built into the computer systems using the Windows 10 operating system. Edge, the short name of this Windows Universal app, is pinned to the three places from where you can access it. These place include the left side Start menu, right side Start menu and the…

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  • Win 10 Start Menu: Personalizing Right

    Win 10 Start Menu: Personalizing Right

    Personalizing the right side of Win 10 Start menu means making changes to it so that it looks the way you want it. The Start menu as a whole is flexible enough to allow you to customize it. This feature of customizability of the menu allows you to modify the right side of Start menu.…

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  • Personalizing Start In Windows 10: The Left

    Personalizing Start In Windows 10: The Left

    Personalizing Start in Windows 10 makes your device your own. This update lets you know how to customise the left side of the Start menu of your Windows 10 computer. After going through this post, you would have learned how to set an Account picture, the Most used and the Bottom left on the Start…

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  • Windows 10 Start Menu Enables You To Easily Control Your PC

    Windows 10 Start Menu Enables You To Easily Control Your PC

    Windows 10 has several new features that the previous versions of Windows didn’t have. Of all the new features, the one that I will talk about in this updates is the Windows 10 Start menu. Since, this features serves as the gateway to your Windows 10 devices, it deserves to be mentioned first. Subsequently, I…

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