In Windows Vista and latest Operating Systems (Windows 7, 8 & 10) all user files are stored –by default- under several Personal folders (Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Music, Videos, Pictures, etc.), at the following location on the main disk
So, you own a laptop that disconnects frequently from the Wireless network? Or, after updating your system to Windows 10 (or Windows 8, 8.1), your WiFi Internet connection keep disconnecting?
The second big and most important update of Windows 10, is published on August 2016 and contains many great features as Microsoft says.
"INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE" is a blue screen of death (BSOD) error that can be appeared on Windows 10 OS after you have used the "Reset This PC" feature to restore your Windows 10 PC to factory default settings or to refresh (reinstall) Windows 10 without loosing your files or after you have upgraded your system to […]
Firefox XPCOM error description: Firefox couldn't open and the following error is displayed on screen: "Couldn't load XPCOM". The XPCOM error, may caused on a Windows based computer whenever a user tries to open Mozilla Firefox
As you may know, Windows Vista, 7, 8.x or 10, cannot be rearmed more than three (3) times. This means that you can run Sysprep on the same machine (or image) only 3 times. If you try to run sysprep more than 3 times, then the "System Preparation Tool" will give you this error message: […]
Recently one of my clients asked me why Cortana isn't not available on his Windows 10 PC, so I wrote this tutorial with the solution of this problem. In order to use Cortana you should know that:
In some cases there is the need to enable the Admin Shares of local hard disks, commonly for administrative purposes. The Admin shares are the default shares (aka Administrative shares) of all disk drives (C$, D$, etc.) on a Windows computer and by default are hidden and inaccessible from the network.
While some users prefer to have a clean desktop, there are others who prefer to create shortcuts on their desktop (to the most used programs) for their convenience. In previous Windows versions whenever you want to create a program shortcut to your desktop, you have to navigate to Start Menu > All Programs and after […]
This tutorial contains step by step instructions on how to Turn On or Off the Windows Defender Antivirus (Microsoft Security Essentials in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 OS. In Windows 7 and Vista OS, the “Windows Defender” was named “Security Essentials” and if you want to use it for your protection,
The "checking for updates" forever problem & the SVCHOST 100% usage problem (on Memory or CPU) during Windows Update, can happen even on fresh or old installed Windows 7 based computers: Problem description: After installing the latest update agent, Windows Update cannot find any new updates, stacks forever in "checking for updates" screen
I have seen the 100% disk usage issue in many Windows 10 and Windows 8 & 8.1 systems, and I have implemented different solutions to solve the problem because it can be due to various reasons. In most cases, the 100% disk utilization problem in Windows 10, appears in systems with Serial ATA (SATA) hard […]