Cortana voice not working For those who are using the service, you may have at times, experienced a particular issue with Cortana where no sound comes into play. This isn’t good because Cortana is best when she speaks, so if you’re scratching your hair out, please stop because we’ve got you covered. 1] Restart Cortana Open the Task Manager, Restart the Cortana process and see. You will have to right-click on Cortana and select End process....
While there are many websites offering paid service of making the personalized e-cards, there are many free websites too. CherAmi is one of such simple websites which helps you creating the personalized love cards and share them with your loved ones instantly. With different backgrounds, shapes, text fonts and styles CherAmi lets you design an e-card of your choice. It is a simple website with a user-friendly interface. Create free romantic ecards online CherAmi is a simple website which lets you design the personalized e-cards....
CSGO takes a long time to start in Windows 11 Here’s a list of effective workaround you can try in case CSGO takes a long time to start in Windows 11/10 PC. So, let’s check out all these solutions in detail. 1] Download the Latest Windows Update An outdated Windows OS is the very first reason why Counter-Strike is taking forever to load on your system. Every Windows update comes with a lot of improvements....
CustomFolder for Windows 10 CustomFolder is a lightweight freeware that comes in a Zip format and takes less than a minute to download and install on your PC, depending on your internet connection of course. The program asks to launch the quick guide before you install it, check it before you would need it. I literally couldn’t figure out how to launch the application until I checked the Help guide. This is what I was getting when tried to open it directly....
Data lost upon turning switch ON for AutoSave for MS Office One of the reasons is that files associated with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint are counted as documents. These documents are saved in the Documents folder on OneDrive, however, when you save them locally, you decide the location individually. Auto-save causing loss of data on files saved Take this example. You create a MS Word document. Then you go to Save as and save it on the Desktop as the location....
However, the Windows Disk Defragmenter does not defragment the following files: Bootsect dos,Safeboot fs,Safeboot csv,Safeboot rsv,Hiberfil sys,Memory dmp andWindows page file. It does not defragment files in the Recycle Bin; nor does it defragment files that are in use. But using the -b parameter, as mentioned here on our site, it can optimize the boot files. Puran Defrag is a very simple disk defragmenter which will defrag the files and optimize your entire system, collecting all the fragments of a file and putting them together, as well as moving some frequently used files and all directories to faster disk areas....
Track Changes – Delete button does not show strikethrough Those who are familiar with the Track Changes option know that when it’s turned on, deletions are marked with a strikethrough (when selected by highlighting and pressing the Delete button on the keyboard), and additions are marked with an underline. Yet, sometimes, the word or sentence to be deleted does not show a red line striking it out. Rather, the text or the complete sentence gets wiped out....
When you log in to a Microsoft product or service with your Microsoft account, it automatically collects these data to ‘improve’ the product’s performance. Although there is no option to opt-out of this service, you can clear the existing data using this tutorial. As said earlier, Microsoft offers the users an option to remove all the collected data at once. Delete Product & Service Performance data from Microsoft account To delete Product and Service performance data from Microsoft account, follow these steps- To get started, open Outlook....
Desktop Not responding or Frozen in Windows 11/10 If your Windows 11/10 desktop isn’t responding or has frozen, here’s what you need to do: Now let’s look at them in more detail. 1] Restart Explorer Restart Explorer process and see if that helps. 2] Restart Display driver Restart the Display driver and see if that makes the problem go away. Pressing Win+Ctrl+Shift+B in Windows will reset your Graphics or Display Driver....
PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language from Microsoft. It ships with the Windows operating system, and it first made its appearance in 2006. Well, now we do have two publically available editions of PowerShell. The first is the PowerShell v5.1, and the second one is the newer PowerShell Core v6.0. Difference between PowerShell & PowerShell Core The first and foremost difference is as we know that PowerShell Core is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS while the old one runs on Windows only....
Does Windows 10 need Mixed Reality Portal? A compatible headset and compatible PC running Windows 11/10 is required to use Windows Mixed Reality. If you’re running an earlier version of Windows, you can access Mixed Reality Portal via the Start menu. Bear in mind that PC hardware requirements may vary for available apps, features and content. Disable Hardware Requirement Checks for Mixed Reality Portal app You can disable or bypass hardware requirement checks for Mixed Reality Portal app on Windows PC in either of two ways; Let’s see the description of the procedure in relation to the two methods....
Disable Sleeping Tabs and stop Chrome from refreshing Tabs All of the solutions require you to download some extensions. Do note that the note that Automatic tab discarding flag has been removed, so these are the things you can do to disable Sleeping Tabs and stop Chrome from refreshing Tabs. Let us talk about them in detail. 1] Use The Great Suspender The Great Suspender is one of the best extensions for someone who wants to control their Chrome browser....
Windows telemetry is vital technical data from Windows devices about the device and how Windows and related software are performing. It’s used in the following ways: Keep Windows up to date.Keep Windows secure, reliable, and performant.Improve Windows – through the aggregate analysis of the use of Windows.Personalize Windows engagement surfaces. Disable Telemetry and Data Collection using Task Scheduler To disable Telemetry and Data Collection using Task Scheduler in Windows 10, do the following:...
What is unactivated Windows 11/10? The popular computer operating system, Windows, requires a valid license or product key to be activated entirely. Like a paid software, Windows 11, 10, or other older versions require a license purchased from Microsoft. If you do not buy the license or enter the product key while or after installing the Windows operating system on your computer, it is called unactivated Windows. Although Microsoft allows users to use Windows 10 and 11 forever without using a product key, there are some limitations that you need to prepare for....
Disk Cleanup button missing Before you begin, you may want to create a system restore point and/or backup your Registry. Having done that, Run regedit to open the Registry Editor, and navigate to the following key: Right-click on MyComputer > New > Key. Name the new key cleanuppath. Now for cleanuppath, in the right pane, double-click the Default value, and in the Edit String dialogue box which pops up, in the Value Data field, copy-paste the following path: Click OK and exit....
Disk Management not working in Windows 11/10 We have suggested a few methods to address the issue. Please see which one of them helps you. You will need administrator privileges for all of these. 1] Restart the concerned Disk Management Service Press Win key + R, and type services.msc. Hit Enter. It may ask for administrative privileges. This will open the Windows Services Manager. In the services list, scroll down to Virtual Disk service....
Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool This portable tool solves your Windows download problem. Once you have downloaded the latest version of the Windows and Office ISO Download Tool, run it. Please note that if your Windows SmartScreen filter warns you against running the downloaded software, ignore the warning and proceed further. The software is safe to use. Next, select the version of Windows or Office you are interested in downloading....
Windows Command Reference PDF Guide The 948 page PDF eBook called Windows Command Reference contains documentation on over 250 console commands along with a detailed syntax & description of the command & their command line arguments. The PDF starts with some basic instructions to use these commands. Also, there is a short text on how to customize CMD window and syntactically understand the structure of commands. Just below that is the index of the list of commands....
DupScout is a Duplicate files deleter To find the duplicates, you need to click on the ‘Duplicates’ button from the toolbar. Then you need to choose the directories or the places where the DupScout should scan for duplicate files. You can add a directory or a shared folder from the network, or you can simply scan the whole computer for duplicate files. With DupScout you can also scan Servers or NAS devices by simply entering their IP addresses....
If you are a developer, a gamer, or if you use your computer for office work or just to browse the Internet, you will be facing times when you have to toggle volume on your Windows 10 machine. For that, Microsoft has been providing the users with the standard volume control for a very long time in the system icons group. That volume control is the master volume control that works universally for all the applications playing sounds....
