Windows 10 has User Account Control (UAC for short). Microsoft introduced UAC in Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008) to protect unwanted elevated commands on your system. Before such commands are executed the computer will ask you for Administrator rights, which protects your operating system and your personal files.

In this [...]

Several users have reported that they have been receiving error code 0x80242016 while attempting to run Windows update on Windows 10. While the exact cause is not clear we will be giving you some advice on things to try that in most cases will help you solve the issue. Let’s get started with fixing that nasty [...]

Some users have reported receiving error code 0x80131500 while attempting to start the Windows Store in Windows 10. The Windows store offers Windows 10 users (and Windows 8 / 8.1) users the possiblity to download Windows Apps like Netflix and so on. However sometimes the store just stop working… In most cases the fix is pretty simply. We [...]

While USB drives help us manage and transfer our data, they often suffer from unwanted connectivity and data loss issues. A while back, I faced a similar situation using my pen drive. Even after numerous attempts, my USB drive was not getting detected by the system. Thankfully, I was able to resolve the USB drive not showing up [...]

Some users prefer to have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE or a combination of two buttons on tablets before they can sign in. This is especially handy if you have a keyboard which can be pressed accidentally. Many cooperations use this feature as well.

But how do you enable this in Windows 10? In this tutorial, we will show you how to [...]

We’ve reviewed a lot of recovery programs since WindowsInstructed went online and we have multiple reasons to do so; nothing is as worst (in your digital life) as losing your files which are important or have an emotional meaning to you. We’ve reviewed iBeesoft Recovery Tool, Disk Drill before. Let’s see how Remo Recover for Windows [...]

At some point or other you are quite likely to run into a video that you can’t seem to play because it isn’t supported by your PC. It may tell you as much via an error message that lets you know it is in an unsupported format, or in some cases you’ll just see a blank screen.

If the video format you’re trying to view is [...]

In this short troubleshooting article we will explain how to resolve the error message “Virtual Box: Raw-mode is unavailable courtesy of Hyper-V” more specifically the message (VERR_SUPDRV_NO_RAW_MODE_HYPER_V_ROOT) which results in an E_FAIL result code in Virtual Box.

The main issue that causes this is that you have Hyper-V [...]

Many people over the years have wanted to disable lots of services the Windows operating system runs in the background. Windows have since a long time tried to make the services run whenever it is required and to take as less of a memory footprint as it can.

This article is about 5 important Windows Services that you must not disable [...]

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One of the first things every online customer does on the e-commerce platform of his or her favorite brand is to check the reviews of other customers regarding the product quality. For superior retailers like Amazon [...]

We’ve reviewed quite a lot of products from Digiarty (Making backups of your iPhone using MediaTrans) and they have been a great sponsor of the website, however while this post is sponsored by the developers of the program our opinion is still our own. In this article we will show you how to merge two video’s together using VideoProc from [...]

If you a commuter and you use your mobile phone as a hotspot or you simply have a metered connection then you want to make sure it’s not all used for background tasks in Windows. Windows 10 offers a method to limit background data to avoid draining your precious data limit.

Doing this is [...]