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What does it mean to use technology productively? Which apps and gadgets make your work easier? How to personalize the computers and other gadgets you’re using?

tutorial How to use Windows 10's Timeline with Google Chrome

How to use Windows 10's Timeline with Google Chrome

The Timeline is one of the most useful features added in recent versions of Windows 10. It offers an excellent way to continue your work from one device and onto another. However, one of the main flaws of the Timeline was that, up until now, it was not able to work with Google Chrome. Which meant that you could pick up your web activities
tutorial How to reset the views in File Explorer or Windows Explorer

How to reset the views in File Explorer or Windows Explorer

Some Windows users personalize the views in File Explorer or Windows Explorer to make the app more useful for the way they navigate files. We can get carried away and make so many changes that we want to get rid of them and return the File Explorer to its original state. Windows offers a fast and efficient way of reversing all changes by resetting
tutorial 2 ways to convert PNG, SVG, JPG files to ICO files in Windows

2 ways to convert PNG, SVG, JPG files to ICO files in Windows

If you are a fan of desktop customization, you might want to make your folders and files look unique, by setting different icons instead of the defaults found in Windows. Although you can find a massive amount of free icons on the internet, you might prefer to create your icons by converting images to ICO files. If you want to find out just how
tutorial How to configure the default viewing templates in File Explorer

How to configure the default viewing templates in File Explorer

One of the changes often performed in Windows is to customize the way File Explorer displays files. We show you how to make these changes once, and make sure they re-apply automatically for all the other folders that contain the same type of files. This magic is done using the default viewing templates, and using them is easier than you might think. Let's go
tutorial How to use Diagnostic Data Viewer to learn what is not working in Windows 10

How to use Diagnostic Data Viewer to learn what is not working in Windows 10

Windows 10 has made the headlines with the fact that it sends all kinds of data to Microsoft. To alleviate suspicions of wrongdoing, and increase transparency, Microsoft released the Diagnostic Data Viewer app which anyone can use to see what data Windows 10 sends to its parent company. One other convenient use of Diagnostic Data Viewer is for troubleshooting. With this app, you can
tutorial How to resize tiles in Windows 10, on the Start Menu

How to resize tiles in Windows 10, on the Start Menu

  In Windows 10, the Start Menu lets you use it to arrange apps and shortcuts just like you want, so that you can quickly access the apps you use more often. In this article, we show you how to resize the tiles from your Start Menu, and we also explain what each tile size gets you, and how they differ. As you are
article What is a folder? Why do I need folders?

What is a folder? Why do I need folders?

The folder term that is present in all modern operating systems was used for the first time more than 60 years ago in a computing device. Initially, folders were called directories. But, once graphical user interfaces became the norm, the term was replaced with folders. In the modern versions of Windows, folders are easy to use, and, at the same time, allow sophisticated operations
tutorial 2 ways to see which Windows 10 apps drain the most battery

2 ways to see which Windows 10 apps drain the most battery

Most smartphones and tablets offer ways of finding out which apps drain their batteries. However, Windows devices did not have this feature in the past, and there was no easy way to discover which apps consumed the most power on our laptops or tablets. However, newer versions of Windows 10 have brought new features that change all that. Now, there are two ways in
tutorial 7 ways to tell how many cores your processor has

7 ways to tell how many cores your processor has

Unless you own an old computer, and by that we mean a computer that's from the nineties, you probably have a multicore processor inside it. Do you know how many cores and logical processors your CPU has? Do you want to find out this information? In this article we will show you seven methods that you can use to see how many cores your
tutorial How to use the Resource Monitor in Windows

How to use the Resource Monitor in Windows

When Windows slows down or freezes, we usually turn to the Task Manager to figure out what is going on. If you need a better understanding of the way Windows and its apps use the resources of your computer, Resource Monitor (resmon.exe) is the right tool for the task. The information is concise and real-time with graphs and grouping by resources. You can monitor
tutorial 11 ways to start Resource Monitor in Windows

11 ways to start Resource Monitor in Windows

Resource Monitor extends the Task Manager in Windows by giving access to more details about the way Windows manages the resources (memory, processor, disk, network) of your computer. The information is given in real time which makes Resource Monitor an excellent tool to help diagnose problems with performance. Read this guide to learn how to get Resource Monitor started, in all the possible ways:
tutorial Connect to a Windows PC from Ubuntu using Remote Desktop Connection

Connect to a Windows PC from Ubuntu using Remote Desktop Connection

One useful feature of Windows is that you can connect to your desktop from another location to remotely manage your computer. Fortunately, major Linux distributions also offer this feature and Ubuntu is one of them. If you want to connect to your Windows computers from Ubuntu remotely, you can use the default RDP client found in it, called Remmina. Here is how to create,
tutorial 9 ways to remove desktop programs and Microsoft Store apps in Windows

9 ways to remove desktop programs and Microsoft Store apps in Windows

From time to time, we stumble upon applications that are hard to remove or delete, as some users would say. Sometimes their Add/Remove Programs entries are deleted for whatever reason, or they do not have a handy Uninstall shortcut available. The problems vary from case to case. That is why we decided to make a roundup of all the methods that can be used