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The way you configure settings in Windows has changed with almost every iteration of the OS. A rather chaotic split of the Control Panel was done back in Windows 8,…

A Windows PC constantly notifies you whenever new apps and services try to run without your consent, updates become available, or new email messages are received. However, Windows 10 also…

Your mobile phone probably doesn’t get much sleep since you don’t ever give it a chance to turn off, unless you forget to charge it. If your phone needs to…

Introduced in Windows 8, the Charms bar included a refined search engine that was not only able to locate files on your computer, but also provide web results. This feature…

There was this song on the radio last night. It went all “woop-woop-wooom” with no lyrics, so I couldn’t quite go tell Google about it. Moreover, Shazam wasn’t installed on…

We all know by now that Microsoft filled Windows 10 with one too many methods to monitor your data, also making it the last Windows to hit the market. This…

The biggest concern with Windows 10 is that it’s slowly becoming a service, meaning your personal info and every action you perform on a Windows PC are monitored. Every once…

Microsoft moved most of the classic Control Panel to the Settings screen in Windows 10, but this doesn't necessarily mean that all features have also been removed. Actually, users can…

Microsoft works really hard to develop new features or make existing ones a bit better, if they’re not completely ditched in the meantime. Those services that survived got through several…