Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 has a new feature called Wi-Fi Sense that makes sharing your Wi-Fi password slightly more convenient — at the expense of network security, naturally. Wi-Fi Sense automatically shares password information with your contacts, in theory so your friends and family will be able to connect to your network without having …
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Windows 10 has a new Photos app that does more than just display your pictures as a slideshow. This new default app organizes your pictures by date taken (and even creates curated albums for you), features a few nice editing tools for image enhancement, and lets you share pictures via social networks and email. While it’s not going to replace …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you recently upgraded to Windows 10, you may have noticed that your default browser is now Microsoft Edge – even though your old browser, Mozilla Firefox, is still installed on your machine. Needless to say, Mozilla’s CEO is not too thrilled about this, especially since changing your default browser back to Firefox isn’t as easy as …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you’re excited about the new features in Microsoft Edge but not thrilled about switching browsers, I don’t blame you. While Edge is definitely speedier, sexier and sleeker than Internet Explorer…it’s not exactly bursting at the seams with add-ons and extensions like Google Chrome is. Good news — you don’t have to switch browsers to get some …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Reading webpages on an LED-backlit display can be an uncomfortable experience, especially if the page is cluttered with ads. For this reason, some browsers (and browser extensions) now offer a full-screen reading view. Full-screen readers strip pages of ads, menus and extraneous links and images so you can read articles with minimal visual interference. Edge, Microsoft’s speedy, …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET There are myriad ways to open programs in Windows 10 — use the Start menu/screen, pin shortcuts to the taskbar, or use Cortana. But if hands-free isn’t your thing, you can also use keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how to create keyboard shortcuts for programs and apps in Windows 10 (this also works in older versions of Windows). Sarah …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET The first step to making Microsoft Edge feel like your primary browser is to import your bookmarks. Luckily, importing bookmarks into Edge is super simple…if you already have your bookmarks saved in a different browser that’s currently installed on your Windows 10 PC. That’s right — at the moment, Edge only supports bookmark importation from other browsers …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET A couple of Windows 10’s new features, such as Snap Assist (OK, not really new, but improved) and virtual desktops are useful — and even more useful when you use them with keyboard shortcuts. Here are 10 keyboard shortcuts you’ll need to learn if you want to be able to navigate Windows 10 with ease: Snapping windows …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET If you’re having trouble with your PC (read: blue screen of death), safe mode is a troubleshooting mode that can help you isolate problems. Safe mode disables unnecessary programs and drivers at startup, so you can determine whether it’s a basic setting or driver that’s causing your issues. In the Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 10166, …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Microsoft’s new browser may have dropped the ‘Spartan’ nickname, but if you open it up you’ll find that, feature-wise, it’s still pretty…spartan. At the moment (Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 10158), there’s not a ton you can do to customize the new Edge browser to make it look and act the way you want. But you …
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