Monitor hard drive SMART attributes Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or SMART is a feature on a computer’s hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, the system administrator can receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible future failure of the hard drive. SMART monitors elements of a possible long term drive failure, such as ‘Spin Up Time’, the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on, and the hard disk temperature....

Open Hardware Monitor Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on today’s mainboards like the ITE, Winbond and Fintek families. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The Open Hardware Monitor runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10/8/7/Vista & Windows XP operating systems....

The complete error message is: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user The following solutions will help you fix the “Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user” error while mapping a drive on your network. Let’s see all these fixes in detail. 1] Restart Windows Explorer The first thing that you should try is to restart Windows Explorer. If a computer freezes or any other problem occurs on a computer, restarting Windows Explorer fixes the problem....

Such audio issues can be caused due to misconfigured audio settings, faulty external speakers, or outdated or corrupted device drivers. You need to check the volume controls, levels & settings, audio enhancement settings, and then follow the troubleshooting steps to fix the issue and update audio drivers. No Sound on Windows 11/10 computer To troubleshoot this No sound issue on your Windows 11/10 computer, you will have to look at the following aspects:...

This error occurs because during the boot process, the system checks the HDD/SSD for boot information and other Operating System information so as to utilize the information to boot up the system. However, if the computer is unable to retrieve any boot information or the OS details on the drive, the error message is displayed on the screen. You might encounter this error message due to one or more (but not limited to) of the following known causes:...

Observation keeps crashing or freezing on Windows PC If the Observation game keeps crashing or freezing on Windows 11/10 PC, try the following solutions to resolve the issue. Let’s go with the first solution. 1] Update your Graphics Driver To ensure that you can play Observation without any hindrance, it’s necessary to make sure that the Graphics driver is updated. Updating the Graphics driver can resolve such issues in the game so give it a try:...

The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not been authenticated The symptoms of this issue can be seen based on the following scenario: You map a network drive to a web share that requires user credentials, and you configure the drive to use the Reconnect at logon option.You enter the user credentials and select the Remember my password check box when you access the drive.You restart or log off from Windows....

Prevent Google from tracking your activities or gathering your data While you can always use a browser like Browzar to surf the web privately, there are also a few steps you can take, if you want to continue using your existing browsers and yet stay private, as far as is possible. To do so, you will have to log in to your Google account and change a few settings. Read: Find out what Google knows about you....

Why use the Outlook for Android notification feature? If you receive important emails quite often, then you’ll want to know when they’ve arrived. The notification feature is the best way to stay on top of things and ensure you’re rarely in a position where you’ve missed an email. Outlook notifications are not working on Android phone Fixing this problem is not hard, though it can vary due to the nature of Android, where certain aspects of the operating system differ due to versions and brands of hardware....

Though Windows 11/10 also brings its Calculator app that provides a standard, programmer, scientific, and other types of calculator, for those who want to perform basic Math (or elementary arithmetic operations without decimal points) using Command Prompt, this post is helpful. Perform Arithmetic operations in Command Prompt At first, you need to launch Command Prompt using the Windows Search box or Run command box. After that, you can execute the commands....

Please insert a disk into Removable Disk 1] Change drive letter If the USB drive is working fine with other computers except yours, you can try changing the drive letter. If your computer is causing the issue due to the drive letter conflict, it may fix that instantly. For doing so, insert the removable disk and open File Explorer. You should find This PC on your left-hand side. Right-click on it and select Manage....

PowerShell Module Browser site PowerShell Module Browser Site will be used by the users to find specific cmdlets or modules. Further, a search will provide the users with a description and parameters for a script. Moreover, the users will also be able to get the script itself, which can be copied. This search portal is organized in such a way that its users will be able to select a specific PowerShell package in order to search within, or they can even conduct a search across “all packages....

The normal display of the Features section of the printer properties user interface (UI) is depicted below: This issue can occur if you install a printer device that has advanced features and then you upgrade the computer to Windows 10. This issue, however, does not cause functionality to be lost. Only the display of available features is missing. As illustrated by the image below, the Features section of the printer properties user interface (UI) may be missing after the upgrade....

Printer says Out of Paper, but has Paper If you have enough paper in the printer’s in-tray, but your printer still says that it is Out of paper, try the following suggestions: Let’s get into the details of the solutions. 1] Make sure the printer is not overstacked with papers If you stuff the printer with more and more papers than it can handle, you can see the error. You need to make sure the papers are set in proper limits and can be easily pickable by the printer....

Quick Access in Windows is not working If Quick Access in Windows 11/10 is broken, slow to open, not working, not showing Recent files or can’t Pin or Unpin folders, then you can reset Quick Access and follow other suggestions to resolve the issue: Let us see how to do both of these. Before you begin, create a system restore point first. 1] Clear Recent App Data in two folders First, disable Quick Access and then re-enable it and see if it helps....

Recover license keys of Windows, Office & other software 1] Product Key Decryptor Product Key Decryptor is a freeware that lets you recover the license keys of installed applications. It carries out an automatic scan to recover the software license keys quickly. To start the license key recovery, you simply need to click on the ‘Start Recovery’ button. Product key Decryptor supports more than two hundred applications including most of the popular applications like Adobe Creative Studio, Camtasia Studio, Magic ISO, Norton Internet Security, Visual Studio, TuneUP Utilities, Autodesk 3ds Max, Avira Antivirus, Corel Draw, etc....

In this post, we will see how the Remote Credential Guard feature, which has been introduced in Windows 10, can help protect remote desktop credentials in Windows 11/10 Enterprise and Windows Server. Remote Credential Guard in Windows 11/10 The feature is designed to eliminate threats before it develops into a serious situation. It helps you protect your credentials over a Remote Desktop connection by redirecting the Kerberos requests back to the device that’s requesting the connection....

Windows Restart Manager Let’s say, if an application or Windows 10/8/7/Vista itself, needs to update itself, the Installer calls upon the Restart Manager, to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does so, and this happens without a reboot. And if this cannot be done, then what it does is that it takes a snapshot of the system, together with the applications, at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was, after the reboot!...

I have noticed that people usually use their mouse just to click open a program or document, open the context menu and to select and drag-and-drop files or folders. But the mouse can do much more on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC. Mouse Tricks For Windows 11/10 These tricks may not be that useful for everyone, but being a writer, I often need to use them. Although, some of them are quite common and used by many people around – others are lesser-known yet very useful....

How do you waste time when you are bored? There are a lot of ways by which you can waste your time when you a bored, and no I am not talking about reading a book or watching some documentary, because, technically, you are not wasting your time. What you can do is play some good games or go through useless websites to waste your time. Useless Websites list The following is the list of the 20 useless websites that you could waste or kill your time on....