If you haven’t seen recent movies like Ex Machina to remind you how close we are to having artificial intelligence surrounding us in the near future, getting a dose of the new Cortana personal assistant within Windows 10 mig...
Get Office is basically an app in Windows 10 that show ads of Microsoft Office. Its purpose is to get you to try the Office suite for one month. Worse, Get Office makes use of the new Action Center to shows fly-out notifications f...
Those wishing to take a trip down Microsoft’s memory lane might find the following start menu tweak interesting. Generally speaking, operating systems get better as time goes on; the companies further advanced and are able t...
Here in dotTech, we already did a review on the “best free file backup, drive backup (aka imaging), and system backup software” for Windows. However, if you have yet to pick a backup program and are willing to spend so...
There are some features with modern-day operating systems that flirt between efficiency and danger. Syncing iCloud photos in Windows 10 is one of them. While this guide can make life extremely efficient for some, it can also take ...
New Windows 10 users might end up wondering if it’s possible to change the color of window borders. Well, yes and no. Yes, it’s possible and no because you cannot do it via the options available in personalization. Now, let’s take...
Windows 10 has now been out for roughly a month and today surpassed 75 million installations on PCs. That number is sure to grow over the next few months and will look extremely small by 2016. We’ve seen heaps of new feature...
The following will illustrate how to take a system image backup in Windows 10 so you won’t delete that important data you can ill afford to lose. Unless you have a great deal of space on your computer, we recommend having an...
While Microsoft Windows operating systems can be a breeding ground for viruses and foul play, there are also some security measures in place designed to trump most exploits from causing harm. For example, most amateur programs des...
Since most Microsoft users aren’t developers or have any real interest in developing, the Redmond company limits the amount of opt-in features for geeky Windows fanatics. One of the upsides available to anyone interested in ...
Action Center is a component in Windows 10 that serves as a central place to display all the notifications from the system and your apps. It basically is the mobile-inspired notification center for the desktop. There’re also quick...
Just like with our Android smartphones, Windows comes with pre-installed apps. However, unlike Android smartphones, Windows doesn’t require any kind of root access to delete or uninstall these pre-installed applications. A l...
When switching to Windows 10, there will be a bunch of apps included like OneNote and OneDrive. Now if you’re not using OneDrive, you may want to completely disable or uninstall it from your computer. The thing is there’s really n...
Privacy is a big issue in Windows 10 since many users have complained on the way the OS collects user data by default. It’s easy to understand this behaviour because Windows 10 is designed to be highly customized for each user. It...
Whenever you click the Start button in Windows 10, you can immediately see a group of tiles on the right. These tiles are commonly referred to as Start Menu tiles or live tiles. With live tiles, you can easily view and access cert...
