PC maintenance

Microsoft changed a lot of things with the launch of Windows 10. Most importantly, Microsoft made it easy to install Windows without having to activate it. The idea was to reduce the rampant piracy and cracked versions of Windows that were in circula

Safe Mode is vital when it comes to effectively troubleshooting Windows 10. But there’s the catch. Windows 10 boots so fast that it’s quite difficult to trigger Safe Mode with the F8 or Shift+F8 shortcuts. You can hammer away at these keys all yo

Ever since I started using Windows 10, every time I opened the Task Manager in detailed view, the disk usage activity always touched the mark of 100%. If not a century, it was always above 90% which was quite odd. For the first few days, I thought th

Normally while extending partition during Windows installation, we keep the storage space for System Partition at least close to 100GB. But, eventually the storage bar indicator turns red and you feel the need for more storage space on your drive. We

Whenever there is a discussion regarding how to boost your PC’s performance, swapping out the hard disk for an SSD (Solid State Drive) is one of the top recommendations. They are thinner, much faster, don’t dissipate as much heat as the old

We’ve already spoken a bit about browser cache here on Guiding Tech, so most of you must be familiar with it already. But there is another kind of cache that perhaps not all of you may know. And that’s the one associated with the CPU. If you’ve

Windows 7 made the plug and play feature a big hit. With amazing support for most common hardware, users were able to just plug in their new devices and use them without having to go through configuration of any kind. The support got better

Bloatware and Windows go hand in hand. Always have, always will. Only, with Windows 8, Microsoft got a change to get creative with the bloatware. Real creative. When you turned on your laptop after a fresh Windows 8 install, you were greeted by the b

Drivers are needed for hardware and software to communicate. If you’ve installed new hardware recently, but your computer hasn’t “found” it, it’s likely due to a missing driver.

Many people complain that folders take a lot of time to load in Windows 7 (sometimes even more than 10 seconds), especially when the folder size is huge. Now, the question here is, is Windows 7 slow or is it the way you maintain your computer ? Th

When someone talks about address bar history, we generally refer to or associate our thoughts with a browser. We think about browsing history , website cookies, bookmarks and cache . We also pay a lot of attention to such histories; we manage them

For long I have been searching for ways to remove the overwhelming, unnecessary items that are pinned to my Windows context menu from some of the tools I install on my system.

When you buy a new PC, it works lightning fast. But, during the course of time every user faces the

problem of slow startup

. There could be various reasons as to why Windows takes a long time to boot.

One of the reasons is that a l

When it comes to using the internet efficiently, bandwidth usage is something that you should keep a track of. Similarly, when it comes to using the computer, you should watch out for CPU usage. Though the operating systems take utmost care to relat

In the past, we have covered three amazing tools using which you can easily manage your free programs on Windows. The first one was Ninite, which silently installs common windows freeware using a single custom-made installer. The second one was FileR

Windows comes with a decent set of tools which indeed help you optimize the performance and efficiency of your machine. Few that I can count are Disk Cleanup , Disk Defragmenter and System Restore . A big list resides as part of Accessories->Sy

As a Windows user you must have come across messages like “The source or destination file may be in use” and “Cannot delete file: Access denied” while trying to delete a file.

Previously, we have discussed how you can use two of the Windows’ built-in tools, Task Scheduler and The Disk Cleaner together to clean up your system automatically from time to time. Though the default disk cleaner did the job, I personally favor

When my computer was new, every game I installed on my computer gave me the best FPS (Frames per Second) and graphics performance. As days passed and new games hit the market, the FPS along with the graphics details reduced.

There’s this little piece of Windows that everyone has run into. Yet not very many people know exactly what it’s about, and why it’s there. It’s called Windows Safe Mode, and you might have had to boot into it.