When you hover over a tab in Microsoft Edge, the browser shows a thumbnail preview of the tab under the mouse pointer. While certain users find this feature useful, other would like to disable it. If you want to disable tab previews and display only the web page title when hovering over a tab, you can get with a simple Registry tweak.
Category: Windows 10
Disable logon screen background image in Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Many Windows 10 users are not happy to see the default login screen background image. Earlier, it was possible to apply a Registry tweak to get rid of the background image. The Anniversary Update release, also known as Windows 10 version 1607, finally comes with an option which you can use to avoid Registry editing.
How to check if your PC supports USB 3.0
Very often users ask us how to find if their PC supports USB 3.0. USB 3.0 adds a new transfer rate that can transfer data at up to 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s), which is about ten times as fast as the USB 2.0 standard. Today we will see the fastest way to determine it.
Edge extensions can’t be installed after installing Anniversary Update
A number of users report that after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update they are unable to install Edge extensions. The error message produced by Edge says "This app encountered a problem. Please reinstall it to repair". Here is how to fix it.
A new Universal File Explorer app for Windows 10 is in development
File Explorer, formerly known as Windows Explorer in earlier Windows versions, is the default file management application in Windows for a long time. It has evolved a lot over time to acquire many different features for file management. Windows 10 ships with mostly the same version of Explorer as Windows 8 except for a few changes like Quick Access replacing Favorites. It looks like Microsoft is making a new "File Explorer" app, which will be a universal app like Photos, Cortana or Groove.
Disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607
As you may already know, Microsoft removed the ability to disable Lock Screen in Windows 10 Anniversary for Pro and Home users. This ability is now locked to Enterprise and Education edition users. Here is a workaround which will allow you to disable the Lock Screen feature in Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607.
Move favorite apps to the top of Start Menu in Windows 10
As you may already know, Windows 10 Anniversary Update features a reimagined Start menu with recently added apps, most used apps and other installed apps combined in a single list with group headers. If the apps you use the most do not show up in the most used list and are not pinned to the right side either, it might be annoying to scroll down every time to open them or search for them. Here is a trick to move them to the top so you have to scroll less.
.NET Framework 4.6.2 Offline Installer
Microsoft has released the final version of .NET Framework 4.6.2. If you are interested in getting its full offline installer, you will find links in this article. Having the offline installer is useful to install it on multiple PCs or without having to connect your device to the internet.
Windows 10 will get encrypted app installs
Today, new information got released about Microsoft's plans for the Universal Windows Platform. Windows 10 will get a more secure encrypted appx format so no one will be able to modify these apps.
Free up disk space after upgrading to Windows 10 version 1607
If you installed Windows 10 version 1607 "Anniversary Update" over a previous Windows version, you might have noticed that free disk space on your disk drive was considerably reduced. When you do an in-place upgrade from a previous version of Windows, Windows 10 saves a lot of files from the earlier installed OS during the upgrade and fills your hard drive with files that you might never need again if your upgrade is successful. The reason setup saves these files is so that if something goes wrong during setup, it can safely rollback to the earlier version of Windows. However, if your upgrade was successful and you've got everything working perfectly, then there's no need to keep these files. You can reclaim all the wasted disk space by following these simple instructions.
