After installing and removing a lot of apps and updates, you may notice that your Registry has become quite bloated. Your Registry files may have become quite large. Large Registry files can cause slowdowns and performance issues in Windows 10. Here is how you can compress them.
Category: Windows 10
New Editions of Windows 10 Revealed
Evidence of three new editions of the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has been revealed. This information comes from the accidentally released internal build 16212, which revealed the presence of these editions via the pkeyconfig file.
New Touch Keyboard in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, also known by its code name "Redstone 3", is the next major update to Windows 10. It is in active development as of this writing. It comes with an updated touch keyboard app.
Microsoft May Kill File History in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Windows 10 comes with a built-in backup system called "File History". It allows the user to create a backup copy of files stored on your PC. There are a number of use cases for this feature. For example, it can help you to transfer your files from an old PC to a new one. Or you can use it to backup your files to an external removable drive. It looks like Microsoft is going to remove File History in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Remove Sleep from the Start Menu in Windows 10
In Windows 10, it is possible to remove the Sleep option from the power button menu inside the Start menu. The Sleep mode uses very little power, your PC resumes faster, and you’re instantly back to where you left off. However, if you prefer using Hibernate instead of Sleep, you might want to get rid of the extra option from the power menu. Here is how.
How to Get Weather Forecast In PowerShell
Yesterday, we reviewed a nice and useful service, wttr.in, which allows the user to fetch the weather forecast in Linux terminal. Today, we'll learn how to do the same in Windows PowerShell.
Working Control Center is spotted in Windows 10 Build 16212
As you may remember, when Windows 10 build 16199 was released, Microsoft accidentally showed a different user interface for changing commonly accessed settings. The feature is known as Control Center. A working Control Center is spotted in Windows 10 Build 16212, which has been accidentally released to some Insider PCs.
How to Trim SSD in Windows 10
TRIM is a special ATA command which was developed to keep the performance of your SSD drives at peak performance for the duration of your SSD's life. TRIM tells the SSD controller to erase invalid and not used data blocks from the storage in advance, so when a write operation happens, it finishes faster because no time is spent in erase operations. Without TRIM automatically working at the system level, your SSD performance will degrade over time unless you manually use a tool which can send the TRIM command to it.
Add Snipping Tool Context Menu in Windows 10
The Snipping Tool is a simple and useful application shipped with Windows by default. It was created specially for taking screenshots. It can create most types of screenshots - window, custom area or whole screen. It can be useful to integrate Snipping Tool into the context menu in Windows 10 to access it faster. Here is how.
Add Open With to URL files in Windows 10
URL files are special Internet shortcuts which open in the default web browser in Windows 10. If this behavior is unwanted for you, here is a solution. You can add the "Open with" context menu command for URL files which will allow you to pick another browser to open the URL file with or cancel opening the URL.
