Windows 10

Windows 10 is the latest version of Microsoft OS for consumer use by far. It was released in the summer of 2015 but is continuously being updated. Every Windows 10 update brings a lot of changes.

In Windows 10 Microsoft introduced the modern Settings app that should replace the deprecated Control panel but despite the fact that 5 years have passed, Microsoft is still in the process of migrating settings from Control panel to the Settings interface. It is indeed very complicated and confusing to use both a deprecated and modern interfaces for configuring your PC. So many of users have problems with it. Every next update brings a piece of improvements that makes a lot of our guides useless. So, it is these changes that are the reason for writing all kinds of new instructions and constant updating of existing ones.

Many people hate Windows 10 for its problems and glitches and wish they could switch back to the old good and stable Windows 7. But unfortunately, you can’t buy a new PC without have to deal with the 10th version of Microsoft OS, because in most cases it is the only supported operating system for the newest hardware.

100% Disk Usage in Windows 10. How to fix?

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100% disk usage is a rather widespread issue on Windows 10. It slows your PC down to a crawl. High disk utilization can be caused by various reasons. In some cases 100% usage can be normal (for example after installing updates or during video rendering), in other – it can be a consequence of an issue.

It can take up to 20 minutes to boot and when the desktop finally loads up the disk is constantly running at 99-100% and never dropping down. This means it is unreal to work on such PC. High disk utilization problem can also appear on other versions of Windows as well. Here are various solutions that will help you to fix 100% disk usage in Windows 10. 

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How to disable password on wakeup in Windows 10

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Password serves to protect your system against unauthorized access. Even if you have set up auto login on power on, your Windows 10 might request a password on wake up from sleep or hibernation. So you will have to sign in every time your computer wakes up. If you don’t like this, here is how to disable password on wakeup in Windows 10 (after sleep or hibernation). 

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Windows 10: Start Button not working. How to fix?

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Start button not working – this is a rather popular issue in Windows 10 reported by users on various forums. The problem is very annoying because actually nothing in the Taskbar works properly: programs buttons, Cortana, even the Action Center doesn’t respond when you click its icon. The issue usually emerges after you install updates for Windows 10. But it can also happen by itself – without any visible reasons. Here is how to fix not working Start button, Taskbar and Action Center in Windows 10. We will talk about the 3 methods to solve the problem. The first one is very easy and works in 95% of cases. Besides that we provide extra solutions.

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How to Enable the Favorites Bar in Edge on Windows 10

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The Favorites Bar is not displayed in the Edge browser by default. Microsoft thinks that it is more important to save vertical space for websites’ content.

Many people still ask the same question on forums because they can’t find how to enable the Favorites Bar in Edge. Personally I always turn it on in all my browsers because it seems extremely useful to me.

With their help I can access my most frequent websites much faster than from the bookmarks menu.  

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Stop Mozilla Firefox from Killing Your SSD

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Many people notice that latest versions of Mozilla Firefox save a session backup to disk every 15 seconds. At such rates Mozilla is able to easily write up to 15 Gigabytes of data to your SSD per day. Of course such enormous amount of written data can significantly reduce the life of any SSD. Here is how to change the current session auto saving time period and stop Firefox killing your SSD. 

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