Windows 10 assigns an available drive letter to a new drive connected to the computer. The operating system goes through the alphabet from A to Z to find the first available letter to assign it to various drives. It is possible to remove a drive letter assigned by the OS.
Category: Windows 10
Windows 10 Build 17634 Released for Skip Ahead
Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17634 from the "Redstone 5" branch to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. This release comes with a few bugfixes only and replaces the previously released Build 17627 in the Skip Ahead ring.
How to Boot from USB Drive in Windows 10
The days of burning operating system ISO images to a disc are long gone. Today, most PCs can boot from USB so it's just easier to update and more convenient to install Windows from a USB flash drive. If you do not have an optical drive for reading DVDs or Blu-Rays in your PC but have a bootable USB drive, you may be interested in learning how to start your computer using that drive. There are a number of methods you can use.
Disable Keylogger in Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
It's no secret to anyone who uses Windows 10 that this operating system collects a lot of private information and sends it back to Microsoft so they get more telemetry data about your usage habits which they use to target you with ads and take software design decisions. Along with other data, the OS also collects bits of information to improve the keyboard prediction feature and ink recognition. When this feature is enabled, it might send data that you type. A lot of users are not happy with this behavior.
Remove Default New Context Menu Items in Windows 10
File Explorer includes a useful feature that allows creating new files from the right-click menu. Depending on the current location, the user can create a new library, a new folder, or a number of registered file types like *.txt, *.bmp, and more. If you find no use for certain entries in the New menu, you can remove them from there.
How to Disable Message Grouping in Windows 10 Mail
Windows 10 includes a new Mail app which is simplistic and allows you to send and receive e-mail from multiple accounts. By default, it shows messages in your inbox folder grouped by conversations. Messages with the same subject appear grouped together in the message list. Some users find this view inconvenient and want to disable it. Let's see how it can be done.
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Windows 10 RS4 Preview for HoloLens Released
Microsoft today released the long awaited update to its VR platform, Hololens. It had no updates since Windows 10 Anniversary Update, released in 2016. If you own compatible hardware, you can flash the newly released image.
Windows 10 Build 17133: RTM Milestone
Microsoft today released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17133 (RS4, "Spring Creators Update") to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Like is predecessor, build 17128, this build comes without the desktop watermark. According to various sources on the Internet, on Friday Microsoft internally signed-off build 17133 as the RTM build, which will be released to manufacturers for pre-loading onto new devices.
