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Recover data from crashed Windows with installation media only

Recover data from crashed Windows with installation media only

Windows OS is not ideal and it is not unusual that it may crash in a way that it can no longer boot up. Fixing Windows system in some cases is not an option or requires a lot more efforts and/or money than clean installation. This situation is very common if Windows is rather old […]
Turning Off Windows Ink

Turning Off Windows Ink

Windows Ink is a new Microsoft feature introduced in the Anniversary Update in the August 2016. Windows Ink was intended to become a tool that would make your computer pen as easy to use as pen and paper. Sticky Notes, Scratch Pen, Screen Sketch – Anniversary Update is full of apps that waste your desktop […]
Reasons for slow computer shutdown

Reasons for slow computer shutdown

Many people complain that their computers take a long time to shut down, although machines are still new, and in most cases quite powerful. Usually blaming this problem on the hardware cannot be justified, because the cause of the slow shutdown, as a rule, lies in an incorrect operation of the operating system and does […]
Windows 10: Virtual Desktop

Windows 10: Virtual Desktop

Virtual desktop is an extremely useful and convenient function that some users might remember from Mac or Linux. Microsoft, however, has introduced this feature as a core function only in Windows 10, and looks like this feature is underestimated by multiple users. Today we will take a closer look at Virtual Desktop in Windows 10 hoping to drag your attention to it, […]
How save and open bookmark bundles?

How save and open bookmark bundles?

Let’s say you have a  list of web sites or portals that you open as soon as you start your computer or list of the sites you will open in order to perform some specific task at work. Or the list of pages you check every morning as soon as you wake up: email, news […]
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Every note with Evernote? What alternatives do you have?

Recently, one of the first truly successful startups – notes storage service Evernote – has announced major changes in their tariff plans. I will not try to analyze all possible causes of this event, Evernote has changed the terms of service use many times, but it’s the first time that these changes affect basic functionality. The key innovation here is that […]
What is going on with Skype？

What is going on with Skype？

Today, with the abundance of methods of communication, Skype is a service that is already considered an old school app. At the time of release Skype has been a state of the art technology and quickly attracted a huge number of users, but today new services like Viber and WhatsApp have overtaken and outstripped it in the number of users, and […]
Top cryptocurrency wallets

Top cryptocurrency wallets

Today digital wallet is maybe the fastest and easiest way to pay for goods and services over the internet. They differ in currency, fees and country of residence, but mainly the provided financial services do not depend on geographical or other restrictions, making digital wallets popular worldwide. Today we decided to pay our attention to so-called cryptocurrency wallets […]
How to set shutdown or restart timer in Windows

How to set shutdown or restart timer in Windows

I’m sure that at least once you faced the situation when you would need  to set a shutdown or restart timer on your Windows PC while being out of reach. This may have happened because you left some huge application to download overnight or maybe you have some background job on your office PC and policy requires […]
Checking out Office Online

Checking out Office Online

Lots of people are used to work with Microsoft Office apps. When they need to use online alternatives of Microsoft Office they may face some inconvenience. Best known online service Google Drive with its apps does not have several advanced features and functionality that is available in standalone Office applications. For such cases there is http://office.com . This site provides access to such […]