Windows 10 Tutorials

Data Secure via Encryption

You may think that your Windows account password protects your sensitive files from prying eyes, and it does, but only up to a certain point. Although keeping your Windows password secret. Read more...

Keep Windows Running Best

This tutorial is a checklist of sorts, with each section explaining a fairly simple and necessary task to keep Windows running at its best. Read more...

Sharing Computer

This tutorial explains how to set up a separate user account for everybody in your home, including the computer's owner, family members, and roommates. Read more...

Storage: Internal, External, and in the Cloud

This tutorial explains how to use the Windows filing program, called File Explorer. (You may recognize it as Windows Explorer, its name from older Windows versions.) This tutorial also explains how to use OneDrive, your Internet storage space... Read more...

Customizing Your Displays

With some devices, you may want to change the display size of text, apps and other screen elements to make them larger or smaller. Sometimes, you may want each of your monitors to have a different orientation. Read more...

Optimize the Performance of Your Windows 10 System

How to boost the performance of your computer by tweaking various settings in Windows 10. Read more...

Using Wireless Bluetooth Devices

In a nutshell, Bluetooth is a wireless technology that provides wireless communications among computers, printers, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, and other electronic devices. Read more...

Transfer Your Files to a New PC

If you're like many people, you might be inclined to buy a new PC every few years in order to benefit from the latest in performance and features. But when you've spent years accumulating thousands of personal data files on an existing PC. Read more...

Windows 10 Privacy Settings

Privacy settings used to be a thing about mobile phones, which Microsoft ingeniously ported to their Win8 release. In Win10, even more options are added. There five categories in Win8 - it was increased to 12 in Win10: Read more...

Analyzing and Logging Performance

Windows 10 provides many tools to help you track performance. You could track current and relative performance and provided techniques for determining resource usage using Task Manager and uncovering problems using the Event Logs. Read more...

Sorting Out Your Files, Folders, and Storage

Windows 10 provides the file-management app called File Explorer to help you keep your files and folders in order. To get the most out of your computer, you will want to navigate File Explorer like a pro and customize it so that it works the.... Read more...

Connecting External Hardware

In this tutorial, we look at how to connect extra drives to give more storage capacity, how to set up multiple monitors and virtual desktops to give you more work space, and how to set up printers for when you need hard-copy output. Read more...

Universal Apps

Following in the footsteps of mobile and cloud-based applications, Win10 strengthens Microsoft's stance on making "universal" apps universal for all PCs. Read more...

Windows Hello

Windows Hello is the biometric component of Microsoft's Passport. However, the two applications are not dependent on each other - you can use Windows Hello by itself (and hence we are putting it in its own tutorial). Read more...

Command Prompt and PowerShell

If you have been following the evolution of Windows through time, you will know the only thing that has been there since the very start (and one that has seen the least number of changes) - the command prompt. Read more...