If you share a Windows PC with others, you may have noticed that users may appear as signed in after you log in to the operating system. A click on the Start button and another click on the user profile icon may reveal this. Should not Windows sign out users when the system is shut…
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Inplace Upgrade Helper: Windows tool to switch between Windows editions
Inplace Upgrade Helper is an open source tool designed to help Windows users move between different Windows 10 and 11 editions. The Windows edition, e.g., Home or Pro, determines whether certain features are available or not. A common example is that Home editions lack access to the Group Policy Editor. Windows includes options to switch…
WingetUI 3.0 Stable is now available
A new version of WingetUI, a universal UI for package managers, is now available. WingetUI 3.0 features a fully redesigned interface that the developers promise is more responsive and visually pleasing. Packages should load faster under in the new version, and the application’s package importing and exporting functionality has also been improved. You can check…
Does it work? Trick promises to speed up folder opening in Windows’ File Explorer
We have probably all been there. The gigantic folder full of — insert a data type here — is taking ages to display all files that it contains. It does not matter if we are talking about pictures, videos, audio files, documents, or a mix of files. Sometimes, File Explorer seems to take ages to…
NVIDIA App: new unified app for NVIDIA graphics cards
NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA App yesterday. The new application is available as a beta release at the time of writing. It promises to unify functionality that NVIDIA’s current generation of programs offer. The company plans to replace these programs, notably GeForce Experience, NVIDIA Control Panel, and RTX Experience, with this one in the future. The…
How to zoom in on any video in Windows
Windows users have several options when it comes to zooming in on any video. This guide lists two of the best options to zoom videos on Windows. The first works for any local video file, the second for any video that you play on Windows. Zoom is a useful feature to enlarge an entire video…
Uninstalr review: powerful Windows software uninstaller
Uninstalr is a free Windows software uninstaller. You may download a portable version or installer from the developer website. It runs on Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows. The application supports several features that are often only found in commercial uninstallers: monitor software installations, deep cleaning, batch removals of apps and support for a…
Windows 10 issue: File system error (-2147219196)
Some Windows 10 users reported issues with certain apps on their devices that refused to launch. Users noticed that default apps would not launch anymore on their systems or crash shortly after launch. Some received the error message File system error (-2147219196), others no error at all. One user reported the issue on Microsoft’s official…
0Patch patches Windows vulnerability that Microsoft did not consider “patchworthy”
Not every Windows vulnerability requires patching according to Microsoft. When Microsoft analyses reported vulnerabilities, it may conclude that a vulnerability does not meet the bar for servicing. Exactly this happened to a security researcher recently who reported a Windows Event Log vulnerability to Microsoft. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in a crash of the…
Vividl: download videos from hundreds of sites on Windows
Vividl – Video Downloader is an open source tool for Microsoft Windows devices to download videos from hundreds of websites. The app uses the popular downloader youtube-dl / yt-dlp in the background. It supports downloads of video or audio files from hundreds of sites. Most video streaming sites do not want you to download videos….