Cyber Monday & Black Friday Sale shopping tips All deals are not ‘great’. Filtering out is important to ensure you buy products that have a seriously good deal to go with. Here are our five tips to help you shop wisely this Black Friday shopping season. 1. Carry out a thorough research 2. Browse all deals before you start Before you begin browsing around stores and marketplaces, make sure you have made a note of what all deals have been announced beforehand....

What is Data Execution Prevention or DEP Here are answers to some common questions about Data Execution Prevention (DEP), sourced from Microsoft Help. Which programs does DEP monitor? DEP automatically monitors essential Windows programs and services. You can increase your protection by having DEP monitor all programs. To increase DEP protection, see Change Data Execution Prevention settings. Is it safe to run a program again if DEP has closed it? Yes, but only if you leave DEP turned on for that program so that Windows can continue to detect attempts to run code from protected memory locations and help prevent attacks....

What is DellInstrumentation.sys? The DellInstrumentation.sys driver file may have been installed on your Dell Windows operating system when you used firmware update utility packages, Dell Command Update, Dell Update, Alienware Update, Dell System Inventory Agent, or Dell Platform Tags, including when using any Dell notification solution to update drivers, BIOS, or firmware for your system. This file references the Dell OpenManage client instrumentation application, which is used by companies to centrally manage machines....

A new Group Policy added to Windows 10 systems lets users do this. It enables devices configured with DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodinDays or BranchReadinessLevel policies to skip safeguards and deploy Feature updates. Deploy feature updates configured with Defer Feature Updates Period in Days policy Devices that have DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodinDays or BranchReadinessLevel policies enabled are restricted from upgrading instantly, owing to some known compatibility issues that might cause problems or result in performance issues as is seen with most latest updates....

Destroy your Windows desktop The free tool is fun to use. It offers you several ‘disasters’ you can choose from – From Floods, Meteors, UFO, and so on. Enable the sound effects to get the best out of them. Chose your disaster, the sound, and other options and go ahead! You can control the disasters using your mouse. You can also make a cow walk across your desktop dropping dung!...

Low-level and High-level Programming languages Today, we are going to explain the definition of high and low-level programming, and the different types. When you’ve completed reading this article, it is expected that you’ll have some idea of which language to focus on going forward. Bear in mind that programming is not easy, not even for professionals because things can go wrong at any time. If you are not built for solving complex problems, then chances are learning to code is not your thing....

Disable Let’s make Windows even better Get even more out of Windows is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s designed for users who have a tough time discovering useful features on Windows 11/10. It can help users to set up these services. However, once you have seen it enough, it gets annoying. The window shows up at multiple instances including new installation, after feature updates, and at random times. Disable Get even more out of Windows in Windows 11/10 You can disable Get even more out of Windows, Let’s make Windows even better or Let’s finish setting up your device message on Windows 11/10 in two ways:...

This feature has come with Microsoft Edge version 87 or higher. Generating a strong password manually is not that difficult, but browsers like Microsoft Edge make it easier. In the screenshot added above, you can see that the password suggestion box is visible. As soon as you select the password, it is saved automatically for that particular account. Though you can use some other password and it will replace the old one with a newly generated password immediately....

Disable Wallpaper compression in Windows 11/10 Windows never actually applies the full quality image to the Desktop. It reduces the quality to enhance the system’s performance. Windows itself does not offer a method to disable the JPG wallpaper quality reduction in Windows 11/10, but a registry fix can help you disable this automatic compression feature. If you are unaware, Windows 11/10 computer stores the converted image as a TranscodedWallpaper file inside this directory: If you can manage to change its extension ....

Discord automatically determines Input Sensitivity of Mic As mentioned earlier, Discord has a feature called “Automatically determine input sensitivity”. When it is enabled, it will detect your mic settings and change them automatically. If you don’t want that to happen, just disable the feature and you will be good to go. So, if Discord automatically determines the input sensitivity of Mic, try the following solution. Once you have disabled the feature, your issue should be resolved....

DNS server failure 0x8007232A Unlike Error 0x8007232B, the KMS server does exist on the network, so the only problem is resolving your network. A DNS issue means that the computer cannot reach the KMS server by using the server URL. Depending on the situation, an IT admin is required. 1] Run Network Troubleshooter I would suggest you run the network troubleshooter to fix issues which is on the PC side. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshooting....

The Motherboard is essentially the heart of your computer and includes several interfaces related to the hard drive, RAM, processor, and other components. It requires the assistance of other drivers to communicate with the operating system. Often, users are looking for ways to install the MSI motherboard drivers. You can install it directly from the manufacturer’s website or even install the missing MSI driver from the Device Manager. How to install MSI motherboard drivers You can install MSI motherboard drivers in four different ways....

Microsoft Safety Scanner The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again. Do note that it’s not exactly a small file … its msert.exe file is a 100 MB download! The MSS is different from the Malicious Software Removal Tool – nor is it meant to be a replacement for using an antivirus software program that provides ongoing protection....

Movie Maker for Windows 10 Movie Maker is a free 3rd-party app available on the Microsoft Windows Store that can help you carry out the basic edits on your video & movie clips like joining, splitting, rotating, trimming, merging, editing along with 30 transition effects for photos & videos, image filters, 30+ fashionable fonts for subtitles. You do not need to be a professional to use this tool. The tool is super simple to use, and it has been designed keeping in mind the casual audience....

Windows Clock Logon Screensaver Features of the screensaver: Displays Time\Day and DateUse as Screensaver; has ability to apply to Logon Screen as Screensaver.Transparency is not supported for Screensavers on the Logon Screen so W8Clock will display as a solid color on the Logon Screen but for general use you have the ability to apply Transparency.Added ability to use the Screensaver as an Alarm Clock. Use MP3, Wav, Midi and WMA audio files....

Driver Signing Changes in Windows 10 The latest version of Windows 10 will load only Kernel mode drivers signed digitally by the Dev Portal. However, the changes will affect only the new installations of the operating system with Secure Boot on. The non-upgraded fresh installations would require drivers signed by Microsoft. Please note, that you will not need to re-sign the existing drivers on your Windows 10 PC, to get them to work on your upgraded version 1607 of Windows 10....

By default, Azure Security Center recommends its users to enable a network security group (NSG) to experience improved Azure Networking. If it is not enabled you may experience trouble in controlling access inside the Azure network. Network Security Groups, also known as NSGs, contain a list of Access Control List (ACL) rules that allow or deny network traffic to your VM instances in a Virtual Network. Microsoft Azure Security Center It has been found that NSGs are associated with either subnets or individual VM instances within that subnet....

Num Lock not working on Startup For those who do not know what Fast Startup is, here is a short description. The feature is called Hybrid Shutdown. Windows does this by shutting down, as far as closing the user sessions – but at that point, instead of continuing and ending system services and shutting down Session 0, Windows then hibernates. It is called Hybrid Shutdown. How this works is that Windows sends out a message to running applications, giving them a chance to save data and settings....

Enable or Disable Software Rendering via Internet Options In this post we will see what hardware acceleration is, what is software rendering, and the problems which may arise when Internet Explorer tries to render a web page. Rendering is the process of using computer code to display the text and graphics that you see on your screen. In some cases, your browser may show performance issues when rendering the webpage and you could end up facing one or more of these symptoms:...

Enpass Password Manager for Windows PC Once you’ve installed and started Enpass, you will be able to experience the gracefully aligned UI which is at the same point easiest to use. You can save your data in any of the following categories: Login: Under this category, you can store all your information related to website credentials. Nowadays we use a variety of websites and remembering the password for all of them is really a tough job so you can use this category to store all your credentials....