Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 fully embraces its identity as a universal operating system. This includes Microsoft strongly suggesting you use a connected Microsoft account to log in to your computer, so you can fully take advantage of Windows 10’s new connected features (such as settings syncing). But there are some downsides to using a …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 has a couple of different tools for helping you eke the most life out of your laptop’s ailing battery. There’s the traditional power options menu that lets you pick and choose how long your computer should stay awake when you’re not using it, and there’s also a new battery saver feature that switches off things …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10’s new Wi-Fi Sense feature — which is designed to make it easier to share network credentials without giving up your Wi-Fi password — isn’t my favorite thing. But it can be a convenient way to get credentials around quickly, assuming you trust your Outlook, Skype, and Facebook contacts. Wi-Fi Sense does two things: It lets …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 has a native feature that lets you record a video clip — of up to 2 hours — of your screen. But you may not have noticed this feature, because it’s hidden away inside the Xbox app. Called Game DVR, this feature is designed to record video game footage (you know, for your future YouTube/Twitch …
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Some of our Windows 10 tips involve tweaking the Registry (for example, this tip on how to get rid of default cloud service icons in File Explorer) or running a few lines of code in the Command Prompt or the Windows PowerShell. If you’re beyond basic Windows 10 customization — and comfortable working in the Registry or the Command Prompt …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET There are some programs that you always run together. For me, it’s Google Chrome and Microsoft Word (hey, I’m a writer), for you it might be Skype and Steam. Maybe there are a few programs that you open every time you start up your computer. What if you could open multiple programs with just one (double) click? …
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Now playing: Watch this: Windows 10 tricks you probably didn’t know about 1:37 Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You might think you know all the Windows 10 tricks by now, but you’re wrong — partly because Microsoft is continuing to drop new builds (Build 10565 went out to Windows 10 Insiders on Monday), and partly because most of Windows 10’s little tricks …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You may think you need Wi-Fi right now — with your limited data plan and your Netflix-watching obsession — but you don’t. You don’t truly need Wi-Fi until you’re stuck in at a bus stop in west Tokyo, with no data plan and no idea how you’re going to get in touch with your brother who’s supposed …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 comes with a ton of default apps. While these apps don’t take up a lot of space on your hard drive, they do take up a lot of space in your Start menu. If you’re the type of person who likes clutter-free Start menu, you can uninstall some (but not all) of those default apps. …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You would think that, because Windows 10 comes with Microsoft Edge preinstalled, you’d be able to ditch Internet Explorer. But you’d be wrong. Because Internet Explorer 11 comes preinstalled on Windows 10 — and no, you can’t uninstall it. But you can turn it off. This Control Panel hack works in previous versions of Windows, too. Here’s …
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