This area includes a collection of articles related to PC software, and specifically Windows tutorials, tips and tricks.
With the ‘end of support’ period for Windows 10 approaching rapidly (Microsoft have said this will happen in October 2025), an increasing number of people are asking whether they should upgrade to Windows 11. I actually upgraded to Windows 11 just over a year ago, and I’ve been really happy with it. Yes there ARE … Read more
Overall I like Windows 11, but they seriously messed up the taskbar. Microsoft decided to FIX it to the bottom of the screen. You can’t move it. In this short video I discuss what you CAN now do with the taskbar (which is not very much – basically you can move the tray icons a … Read more
When I set-up a new PC, I always used to install Notepad++ and 7Zip. Unfortunately when I moved to Windows 11 two years ago, both of these programs were hidden away. Right clicking files would just present me with a bunch of useless options. Thankfully there are six good ways to ‘fix’ the Windows 11 … Read more
Households and offices that are packed full of gadgets and computers can be a great thing, but they can also make syncing files between them difficult. For example, you might have some sensitive financial docs on your main home PC, but you can’t easily share them with other devices. Sometimes people then resort to emailing … Read more
So you’ve just installed your shiny new graphics card – congrats! But after booting into Windows, you soon notice a problem: the music and audio cuts out a lot, or it keeps going out of sync with the on-screen footage. While this is a frustrating side-effect of a GPU upgrade, it’s often easy enough to … Read more
Ah, Windows Updates. When they work, they seamlessly keep our computers up to date. But sometimes they are the bane of our tech lives: randomly failing, or causing our PCs to restart at the worst possible time. That’s why Windows rolled out the ‘active hours’ feature a few years ago. This was Microsoft’s attempt to … Read more
If you have an Asus motherboard, you will probably have the Armoury Crate (or Armory Crate) software on your PC. Unfortunately it’s a fairly buggy bit of software, and any non-admin users will keep getting an annoying UAC pop-up every time they login that says: Do you want to allow this app to make changes … Read more
PCs work well… most of the time. However in rare cases, Windows computers can have major problems after a power outage – even resulting in the PC failing to boot up. This is because modern PCs are actually quite complicated: a range of PC hardware, BIOS options and operating system layers all have to work … Read more
Over the past few months, my Windows PC has developed an annoying issue. Sometimes when I boot up, I launch a game or video editing program… and get hit by lag and performance stutters. I might just about get 1 FPS in Rocket League if I’m lucky! I then check Task Manager, and I notice … Read more
Something that has always annoyed me on Windows is just how difficult it makes playing sound. It should be simple. If you plug in headphones, it should play on there. If no headphones are plugged in, it should play through the monitor’s speakers. Simple. But it’s often not the simple, unfortunately. Windows gives you random … Read more
