Tips, tricks and tutorials to help you get the most out of your favorite software and tools
Are you unknowingly making mistakes that could harm your computer or hinder your productivity? In this article, we’ll cover 15 ways you might be using your computer wrong and show you how to fix them. Let’s dive in and start…
Sometimes, you might want to cut down a video’s file size to send it to someone or to ensure it doesn’t take up too much of your storage space. In such cases, you can compress the video to reduce its…
Microsoft Store is an authentic store that hosts millions of software applications. However, during downloading process, it is possible that you may end up getting stuck in the download queue. Or, the apps download very slowly. Most of the time…
BIOS Flashback is one of the safest ways to update your motherboard’s firmware. The feature is most reliable when experiencing POST (Power-On-Self-Test) failure or when you seek enhanced compatibility with new components. You do not need to enter the UEFI utility or use…
BIOS is the motherboard’s firmware, and like any other software, it can very well be updated. But before swinging into action, you need to inspect the current version. To check the BIOS version on any system, navigate to UEFI/Legacy Utility. Here,…
BIOS auto-recovery triggers during startup when your system detects any corruption with the BIOS image. To use this feature, a backup of the BIOS firmware must already be present in your system. The Basic Input Output System (BIOS) firmware initializes…
In the first chapter, you identified how to take ownership of the installation of a wiki and how to approach automating its deployment: by breaking down the architecture, installation, and configuration steps. In the end, you choose an automation tool that suits your…
PnP Detected Fatal Error is a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD error) with the stop code 0x000000CA. As the name PnP (Plug and Play) implies, this error occurs due to a faulty plug-and-play device or driver. As with any other…
Windows 11 is no longer the unstable mess it was half a year ago at the time of its release. For the most part, anyway. Some users are still facing minor bugs and compatibility issues after upgrading to Windows 11.…
If you try to initialize a new SSD on Disk Management, it will ask you to choose between the MBR and GPT partition styles. In short, GPT was introduced to overcome the limitations of the MBR partition scheme. While older and…
Microsoft has labeled secure boot as a requirement to install Windows 11. It is a security feature provided by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that prevents your system from being vulnerable to malware during the start-up process. Secure boot allows…
SSD, or Solid State Drive, uses flash memory to store data that you can access digitally. This results in the SSD to have faster read, write and access time, making it much more efficient compared to its counterpart, the Hard Disk Drive(HDD). …
