I’m trying to switch from Google Chrome to the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. But when I search from the Address Bar, it always uses Bing. How can I switch that to Google? Running on Win10.
I read your earlier tutorial on how to easily take screen captures in Windows 10 but I don’t have a “Screen snip” quick action button on my Notifications pane. How can I add it?
Before I was in Windows 7, I could easily view a slide show of photos/pictures, but now there is no sign of a slide show even while in my pictures library or folder. Would be grateful for your kind assistance.
I need to get some screen shots of our program running on my Windows computer. Now that I’m running Win10, what’s the smart way to do this so I can crop to size and save the screenshots as PNG files?
I like to keep our copy of Office 365 updated, but I read that the next update of Office 365 ProPlus will switch the default Chrome search engine to Bing? WTH? How can I restore the default search engine to Google if that does happen?
I was trying to update my Windows 10 laptop yesterday and noticed that it wouldn’t actually apply the update because of “Battery Saver”. How can I force an update or disable this feature?
If you’ve been using your PC for a long time, you might well have resisted the siren song of a newer version of Windows. Perhaps you skipped Windows 8 and are still resisting the jump to Windows 10. Unfortunately, today’s the day – Jan 14, 2020 – and Windows 7 is now officially abandoned and will never get another upgrade or security patch again. This means it’s time to upgrade.
Is there any easy way to change some of the system icons in Windows 10 without applying an entirely new theme? I don’t want everything to change, I just want to change a few icons on my Desktop…
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