A few days ago, Mozilla introduced its new project, "Quantum", which is aimed at providing a new, notably improved engine for the Firefox browser. It will be Gecko-based and should bring many enhancements to Gecko's performance, thanks to increased concurrency and parallelism, reduced latency, and better reliability provided by the Rust code language and its features.
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
How to change Region and home location in Windows 10
In our previous article, How to download and install the new Paint 3D app for Windows 10, we mentioned a trick which allows you to bypass the country limitation and access an app in Windows Store which is region-restricted. By changing your region and home location, it can be done. Let's see how.
How to download and install new Paint 3D for Windows 10
Paint 3D is the brand new Windows 10 app that everyone is raving out because of how easy Microsoft made it for non-professionals to create 3D objects by drawing or scanning. It is expected to be bundled with Windows 10 Creators Update, the next major release of Windows 10 which should become available in March 2017. Here is how you can get the official preview of the app.
Get CPU Information via Command Prompt in Windows 10
In Windows 10, it is possible to get information about the CPU installed in your PC using the command line. If you need to print it out or just view your CPU details without restarting your PC or using a third party tool, here is how it can be done.
Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11 comes with call improvements
Microsoft has released Skype for Linux Alpha version 1.11. This new application is a completely redesigned Skype version which has nothing common with the previously available Skype 4.3. In this version, the application got many improvements for video calls.
Change Windows 10 theme from the command prompt
Many people are interested in changing a Windows 10 theme from the command prompt without opening the Explorer window. They want to apply the custom theme they have installed from the command line. Unfortunately, Windows does not provide any native or user-friendly way to change the current theme and apply *.theme file silently. Here is a tool which is designed for that task.
The first Windows 10 Creators Update preview release is expected this week
As it was officially announced, Windows 10 "Redstone 2" will be named the Creators Update. The next build, which represents the Creators Update branch is expected to be released later this week.
Windows 10 build 14393.351 is out for Release Preview ring
Along with all the announcements Microsoft made during the October 2016 Microsoft Event, the Redmond giant today released Windows 10 PC build 14393.351 for Insiders on the Slow and Release Preview rings. If you have joined one of these rings, the update will arrive on your PC very soon.
Winaero Theme Switcher
Winaero Theme Switcher is an application which allows you to change the Windows theme from the command prompt. It has the following GUI:
Version 1.1 is available. See the change log below.
But it is primarily intended to be used with the command prompt or in a batch file. It allows you to automate the applying of a custom theme.
The syntax is as follows:
Redstone 2 will officially become Windows 10 Creators Update version 1703
New information has become available about the upcoming feature update for Windows 10. Currently known as Redstone 2, it seems it will be officially called Windows 10 version 1703 "Creators Update".
