Disable Automatic Maintenance registry tweak for Windows 10.
Using this tweak, you will be able to disable the Automatic Maintenance feature in Windows 10
Get classic Microsoft Plus! themes for Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7
If you have been using Windows since Windows 95 or Windows 98, you might remember Microsoft Plus! and the wonderful extra themes which were available as part of the Plus! pack. Today, you can get those themes in modern Windows versions like Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7. You can get genuine wallpapers, cursors, sounds, icons - everything except screensavers from those themes.
How to see if TRIM is enabled for 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. So it's always a good idea to check if TRIM is correctly enabled for your SSD in Windows 10 and enable it, if it is disabled.
Automatically mute inactive tabs in Google Chrome
When you are browsing the web, you may be opening multiple tabs and it is very annoying when a tab which is in the background starts playing audio suddenly without even it being focused. While you can either completely mute your system volume, it is not convenient to do so and unmute it every time you need to listen to something. While you can mute only the tab playing the audio, you still have to locate it and then mute it. A Chrome extension instead handles this automatically muting all background tabs and keeping the active tab's audio unmuted.
Windows 10 got a new Release Preview ring for Windows Insiders
Yesterday, Microsoft introduced a new "ring" for participants of the Windows Insiders program. It is named the Release Preview Ring and is different from the Fast and Slow rings previously available for Insiders. Here is what you can expect if you switch to this ring.
How to fix apps that look small on high DPI and high resolution displays
Today, many PCs ship with very high resolution displays even if the PC form factor is smaller for example, an Ultrabook or a tablet. Or you may have a desktop monitor with 4K resolution. At such resolutions, Windows automatically turns on DPI scaling so everything on your screen becomes larger. However, there are some third party apps, which don't render properly on high DPI screens. They look too small for the screen resolution. Let us see how to fix them if Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 does not scale them properly.
Official Microsoft stats: 16% users on Windows 10 in Nov 2015 amongst those who opt in to Telemetry
According to Microsoft, users are moving to Windows 10 very quickly. Since they are using all possible ways to coax the average user to switch from previous Windows releases to the latest version, it might be working. Microsoft has shared some of their official stats which show that 16% of users were already on Windows 10 in November 2015. This comes with a very important footnote though which mentions that this usage data is obtained from customers who have opted to send Microsoft telemetry data.
Get official information about Windows 10 updates and releases
Microsoft has rolled out a new website where you can learn what is included in the released updates and version upgrades for Windows 10. It was about time to be honest since users like transparency about what an update does, especially business users. Almost all software today provides very detailed change logs.
Microsoft has rolled out Windows 10 build 10586.104
A new cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1511, also known as November Update or Threshold 2, was released by Microsoft. This time we have a change log and know exactly what happens by installing this update. Let's explore this update.
MouseMonitorEscapeSpeed (Mouse pointer stickiness) fix for Windows 10
In Windows 8.1 Update 1, Microsoft introduced a behavior where if you happen to have multiple displays and move the mouse pointer over to the other monitor while dragging a window for example, it blocks them at the corners. You have to move it fast in order for the mouse to not stick. This stickiness of the mouse pointer was a Windows 8 feature which could be disabled by a Registry tweak. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Windows 10. However I found a workaround for this.
