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Windows, SSDs and Defragmentation the definitive answer
Solid State Drives are great. If you switch from a platter-based drive to a SSD you will think you are in speed-heaven for the first time. Windows boo...
Recent File Seeker creates a list of new or modified files in Windows
If you are running Windows you may know that the operating system keeps track of a lot of things in the background.It stores information about recentl...
How to disable tooltips in Windows Explorer (File Explorer)
Tooltips are small popups that display information about an item or element you are hovering over. You may have noticed that they barely reveal inform...
After two years, Microsoft makes up its mind how to call Windows Apps
One of the most confusing things I experienced in recent time was to understand how Microsoft called applications installed from Windows Store and the...
How to disable specific global hotkeys in Windows
Global hotkeys can be quite useful as they offer advantages over application-specific hotkeys. First, they work everywhere on the system regardless of...
Lock-down your Windows system with Simple Software-restriction Policy
Simple Software-restriction Policy allows you to harden Windows machines by adding Linux-like execute permissions to them.Windows by default does not ...
What is wsappx and why is it causing high cpu load?
When I launched the most recent version of Windows 10 today I noticed high cpu load almost immediately.I opened the Windows Task Manager with the keyb...
How to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service in Windows
Windows 7 and 8.1, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 R2 users and admins who have already installed the patches Microsoft released today for those operat...
Windows Update error 0x80246017 continues to plague users
If you have set up a test system with a preview build of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, you may have encountered the update error 0x80246017...
