By default, Windows 10 performs an online search for everything you type in the search box of the taskbar. But the default search engine is Bing and the end user cannot change it easily. In this article, we will see how to change the web search engine used by Cortana in Windows 10 and set it to any search service you want.
How to end a process quickly with Task Manager in Windows 10
In Windows 10, the Task Manager app has a number useful features. It can manage startup apps now and calculate their impact on startup performance. You can also see app history and copy process details quickly with it. In the "More details" mode, Task Manager has two tabs, Processes and Details, to control running apps. Today, I would like to share with you a very simple trick to kill a running app quickly.
Windows 10 apps do not show in App history of Task Manager [Fix]
The App history tab, which is part of the Task Manager app in Windows 10, is designed to show statistics for Modern apps that you use. It shows the CPU time of apps (which apps keep the CPU busy for the most amount of time), the amount of data each app has downloaded or uploaded, or consumed for showing live tiles, including the data consumption over a metered network and a non-metered one. However, sometimes the App history stops working and you may not figure out why. If you are not able to see your app usage history in the Windows 10 Task Manager, then you can try the fix described below.
Add custom folders or Control Panel applets to Navigation Pane in File Explorer
The ability to customize the navigation pane area was what many users wanted in modern versions of Windows. Unfortunately, out of the box, Windows does not provide an easy way to change items visible on the left in File Explorer. With recent releases, Microsoft made possible to hide Favorites and Libraries, but it is still not possible to add custom items or remove items like This PC or Homegroup without using Registry hacks. Today, I would like to show how to change this and add custom folders or Control Panel applets to the Navigation Pane in File Explorer.
Winaero Tweaker 0.5.0.5 is out
A new version of Winaero Tweaker is out, featuring a significant number of new features. Along with new features, I fixed some minor bugs and made some improvements to the user interface of the app.
Windows 10 Anniversary Update will allow arranging Quick Action buttons with drag-n-drop
New information about Windows 10 Anniversary Update has appeared on the Internet. In internal builds of Windows 10, which are not released to Insiders yet, a new feature was spotted in the Action Center. Now the user can create his own customized layout for Quick Action buttons using just drag-n-drop.
How to disable wallpaper JPEG quality reduction in Windows 10
In case you don't know, Windows 10 reduces the quality of JPEG images you set as the desktop background. If you compare the original image and the wallpaper, you can see that the wallpaper has minor JPEG artifacts. The issue is not new to Windows 10 - Windows 8 and Windows 7 are also affected by this issue. But Windows 10 is the first version where a solution is available. Let's see how to disable wallpaper JPEG quality reduction in Windows 10.
Download Disable wallpaper JPEG quality compression in Windows 10
Disable wallpaper JPEG quality compression in Windows 10.
By default, the wallpaper image quality is reduced to 85%. Microsoft considers this value as a compromise between the image quality and the file size. In Windows 10, this value can be changed. Use this tweak to disable the wallpaper JPEG quality compression in Windows 10.
Mozilla is experimenting with Chromium based browser
Mark Mayo, Mozilla CEO and chief manager of Firefox, has introduced project Tofino. In that project, there are a number of GUI experiments for a web browser which Mozilla is working on. Firefox development is not going to be affected but it's a fact that Firefox usage has been going down steadily. It is interesting that the whole project is built on top of a Chromium-based engine Electron, created by GitHub for Atom editor. Instead of XUL used in Mozilla, the browser's user interface is created using React.
How to run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 in Bash
With the recently released Windows 10 build 14316, which is part of the upcoming Anniversary Update, Microsoft introduced a new Linux command line shell "bash" to Windows. It allows running console Linux apps. Microsoft claims that the Linux subsystem is a native implementation which makes it faster than any virtual machine. But unlike a Linux virtual machine instance, the bash console of Windows 10 doesn't allow you to run Linux GUI apps out-of-the-box. Here is how to bypass this limitation so you can run X server graphical apps.
