Cortana is a digital assistant bundled with Windows 10. You can control it using voice commands or type into its search box to find various information from the web or automate certain tasks on your computer. If you do not plan to use Cortana, then you can be surprised that the option to disable Cortana has disappeared in Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607.
Change network card MAC address in Windows 10
Every network adapter you have installed in your PC, laptop or tablet has a physical address called the "MAC address". The MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to each network interface for communication on the physical network segment. There are a number of situations when you need to change your network card's MAC address in Windows 10. Let's see how it can be done.
Winaero Tweaker 0.6.0.2 is out, allows to disable Telemetry in Windows 10 and more
Today, I have released a new version of Winaero Tweaker, 0.6.0.2. The application got a number of new features and bugfixes. Let's see these changes in detail.
Create elevated shortcut to skip UAC prompt in Windows 10
User Account Control, or just UAC is a part of the Windows security system which prevents apps from making unwanted changes on your PC. When some software tries to change system-related parts of the Registry or the file system, Windows 10 shows an UAC confirmation dialog, where the user should confirm if he really wants to make those changes. Usually, the apps that require elevation are related to the management of Windows or your computer in general. A good example would be the Registry Editor app. If the application you are using frequently requires a UAC request every time you start it, confirming the prompt on every launch can get a bit annoying. In this article, we will see how to create a shortcut to run apps elevated without a UAC prompt in Windows 10.
Opera Developer 40.0.2301.0 features redesigned Power Saver
An update to the developer channel of the Opera browser has brought notable changes for the upcoming version. Opera developer 40.0.2301.0 comes with an improved RSS reader and also has a redesigned Power Saver feature.
Skype 1.2 for Linux Alpha is out
Microsoft recently has introduced a completely redesigned Skype for Linux. Today, an updated version of the new Skype was released.
Enable or disable the Hibernate option in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with the Fast Startup feature which performs a hybrid shutdown of your PC by logging you out of your user account and then hibernating the PC when you click Shut Down. Because fast startup is essentially logoff+hibernation, the regular Hibernate option which turned off the PC without logging out is hidden and disabled by default. In this article, we will take a look at how you can enable the Hibernate option so you can hibernate without logging out and don't have to use the Shutdown option in Windows 10.
Paste plain text in Windows 10
Sometimes you need to remove all formatting from text that you have copied and only paste the text content in some application. This can be a text from some text editor, from a web page or from some e-book. In this article, I will show you some quick and useful ways to paste formatted text from the clipboard as plain text in any app.
Context menu to install CAB updates in Windows 10
Many users find it hard to install updates from the command line which come in the form of CAB files. They prefer a context menu to install *.cab updates directly with one click. It is easy to achieve this with a simple Registry tweak Here is how it can be done.
Download Install Cab Update Context Menu for File Explorer
Install Cab Update Context Menu for File Explorer.
Merge this tweak to get the command "Install this update" for *.cab files in File Explorer.
