Category: Windows

How-To Connect a Printer to Windows

Here is how you can Connect a Printer to your Windows Machine Windows is a general-purpose operating system and has a ton of built-in utilities and tools to allow you to perform almost any task you want to perform from a personal computer. Most hardware devices like mouse, keyboards, printers, etc. are designed to work… Read more »

Use Voice to Control Windows

Here is how you can use your Voice to Control your Windows Machine Our computers have evolved a lot over the years. Starting from text-based black screens that required the user to go through bulky manuals and learn commands for performing even simple tasks like launching a program or even navigating a file, now our… Read more »

Change Icons and Text Size in Windows

Here is how you can change the Size of Icons and Text in Windows We have come a long way from text-based console-line interfaces and almost all modern operating systems s are designed with the Graphical User Interface in mind, including Windows. Windows, like other operating systems, shares many common concepts like icons and the… Read more »

Quickly Take Screenshots in Windows

How-To Take a Quick Screenshot From Anywhere in Windows with Snip & Sketch One of the advantages of having a full-featured, customizable operating system like Windows is the abundance of freely available third-party apps as well as a ton of useful, built-in utilities, that make daily work and basic tasks much easier. It is one… Read more »

Access Recently Used Files

Here is how you can get a list of the Most Recently Used Files in Windows Windows has an excellent file management system and the File Explorer has a ton of tricks and features along with a pretty intuitive Window-ed UI that makes the process of navigation pretty easy. However, when working around with tons… Read more »

Check Open Ports in Windows

Here is you can check which TCP/IP Ports are open on your Windows machine A computer is a really powerful machine that can be useful for loads of tasks. Most of the world around us is now powered by the help of incredibly powerful computers, all interconnected with each other through the help of networking.… Read more »

Kill a Process Using Command Prompt

Here is how you can kill a process in Windows using a Command-Line Interface Operating systems started out as command-line interfaces, allowing a user to only interact with a computer using text. Just text. White text on a black screen. The modern operating system is an evolution and is light years ahead, in terms of… Read more »

Kill Not Responding Apps from Task Manager

Here is how you can kill an App that is Not Responding using the Task Manager What makes a Windows computer great is the ability to download and use a ton of third-party softwares, in addition to the ones bundled by Microsoft. However, since there is a very wide range of available specs and hardware… Read more »

Change the default Command Prompt Directory

Here is how you can change the default directory for the Windows Command Prompt The Windows Command Prompt is the preferred Command-Line Interface for all Windows users. Although Microsoft introduced the PowerShell quite a while ago, the Command Prompt has still stuck around as the primary CLI for many hardcore users. However, one problem with… Read more »