These 21 photographs inspire and share the simplicity of wild flowers and the calm that only nature, in its good days, can offer. Tulips, violets, poppy, pansy, wild grass, and much more to find in this theme that you can download free for Windows. Keep bringing the spring inside your workspace to cheer up your mood, even more when is getting cold out there. You can find more great themes in my Desktop Fun section....

Google Play Games app is now available as an open beta for PCs. The app lets you play Android games on Windows 11 and 10. The games are available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and other countries. UPDATED 4/26/2023: Google is now previewing its Android games for Windows 11 and 10 computers, and anyone can try them in the United States and other countries. The company first made available the ability to play Android games on PCs early this year , but it was limited to some regions, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, in close beta....

To change the accent color on Windows 11, open Settings > Personalization > Colors , choose “Manual,” and select the accent color for your environment. You can also click on “View colors” to create a custom accent color. On Windows 11 , you can change the color accent to anything, and in this guide, you will learn how. The accent color (not to be confused with the “color mode”) is the color that emphasizes certain elements of the interface, such as the Start menu, Taskbar, Settings app, window borders, and title bars....

Depending on how low the battery level is on your device (e.g., tablet, laptop), Windows 10 pops a few warning messages letting you know when the battery is low, critical, or running on reserves, and that you need to plug your device to a power source as soon as possible. However, if you’re always on the move, sometimes it might be difficult to find a power outlet with the little time left on your device....

On Windows 10 , you can always use the manufacturer uninstaller and Device Manager to uninstall graphics drivers. However, sometimes the process won’t complete successfully, or it’ll remove the packages, leaving behind leftovers that may cause problems when installing new drivers, and this is when “Display Driver Uninstaller” (DDU) comes in handy. “Display Driver Uninstaller” is a tool that uninstalls AMD and Nvidia graphics drivers completely without leaving behind any registry keys, files, folders, or driver store when the uninstall fails, or you need to delete the graphics card driver completely....

While Windows 8.1 brought the ability to pin Universal apps to the taskbar, users still could not move those app links to the desktop as shortcuts. Something really simple that users got accustomed on every version of Windows. In Windows 10 things are changing in a big way and yes, you can now have Universal apps shortcuts on the desktop. You can now easily create an app shortcut by dragging and dropping a Live Tile to the desktop (when you’re doing this action, you’ll notice a small tooltip indicating the action “Create link in Desktop”), and it also works when dragging a Universal app tile from the All Apps list to the desktop....

On Windows 11 (or 10), you can create and save a full backup to a network drive, and in this guide, I’ll explain the steps to complete this process. If you don’t happen to have an external USB hard drive, and you have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) or another type of file server, you can use the legacy “Backup and Restore (Windows 7)” feature to store a system image backup or a full backup to a specific location in the network....

You can now uninstall Copilot from Settings > Apps > Apps & features , choose the “Copilot” app, and click on “Uninstall.” To disable the Windows 10 Copilot, right-click the Taskbar and clear the “Show Copilot (preview) button” option. To remove Copilot completely, open Group Policy User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot , and choose the “Enabled” option in the “Turn off Windows Copilot” policy to disable the feature....

To enable battery saver on Windows 10, open Settings > System > Battery and choose “Always” or the percentage the battery should fall before turning on the feature. To disable the feature, choose the “Never” option from the “Battery” settings page. On Windows 10 , “Battery saver” is a feature that helps extend the battery life of your laptop or tablet by limiting background activities (including fancy visual effects such as transparency) and pushing notifications when the device is running low on battery....

On Windows 11 (and 10), you can enable or disable the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) as needed, and in this guide, I’ll walk you through the steps to configure this feature. WinRE is an essential system component designed to help troubleshoot and repair issues that may prevent Windows from booting correctly. When your computer encounters problems, accessing WinRE allows you to use advanced recovery options such as Startup Repair, Reset This PC , UEFI Firmware Settings, and more....

Google is adding tab preview to its Chrome browser with version 78. The new feature, just like in Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 , takes the place of the tooltip, and it allows you to get a small preview of the other tabs when hovering over with the mouse pointer. Chrome refers to the new feature as “Tab Hover Cards,” and it’s enabled automatically starting with version 78, but the default behavior only shows the title of the page....

On Windows 11 , errors and other problems are expected during the life of any hard drive, including Solid-State Drive (SSD) or traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD). For example, you may encounter problems upgrading to a new version, the drive may disappear, or strange behaviors like apps locking up may occur. Regardless of the reason, on Windows 11, you can use the Check Disk tool to fix most logical problems through File Explorer, Command Prompt, and PowerShell....

On Windows 11 , if you connect to your organization’s network through a VPN (virtual private network) connection, you probably notice a slow internet browsing experience while the connection is active. The slower internet connection is because when you connect to a VPN server, the system also uses the remote network route for your web traffic. This is not an issue if you’re using a VPN service to bypass region restrictions or for privacy....

Let’s go back in time for a little while and have a tip for Windows XP. More than once I have been asked last week about laptops not being able to see any wireless network, so I decided to write an article about it. If you’ve been connected to a wireless network at your home or at the office with your laptop, and now for some reason your wireless connection is acting up like....

You just got a new Surface RT or upgraded to Windows 8 and the Xbox Music app is now giving you the error 0xc00d11cd (0x8000ffff)? And you probably cannot stream music using the Xbox Music Pass, right? This seems to be a problem that many users are having. Luckily it seems that there is a solution; one member of the Microsoft forum suggested that this is an issue due unsupported audio drivers not being able to play protected audio stream....

To force install Recall AI on unsupported hardware, you must download the Amaperage tool and the AI components on Windows 11 build 26100.712 , and then from Command Prompt (admin), run the “amperage /install” command. Currently, the app allows to set up Recall on devices with ARM64 processors (such as those from Qualcomm, Microsoft SQ, or Ampere). If you don’t have an ARM processor, it’s still possible to try the feature using a virtual machine to emulate an ARM installation of Windows 11....

Windows 10 may not include a native feature to pick colors, but you can use the tool built into PowerToys to add a system-wide color picker. The Color Picker included with PowerToys allows you to quickly find the technical information for any color on the screen. Once you install the application and enable the tool, you can use a keyboard shortcut to launch the experience. Then you can use the mouse pointer to identify the color of a particular element in various formats (including HEX , RGB , HSL , CMYK , and more) and copy it to the clipboard....

UPDATED 11/1/2023: It’s possible to install Windows 11 23H2 without a USB flash drive if the device already has an older version of Windows 11 or any supported version of Windows 10 . You only need to mount the ISO file to File Explorer and launch the upgrade process. However, if the device uses version 22H2 , the best option to upgrade is using the “Windows Update” settings since the setup wizard will perform a complete reinstallation....

Windows 10 provides multiple ways to map a network drive on your computer, including using PowerShell, which can come in handy when creating a script or when you prefer using a command-line interface. When you use PowerShell (or any other methods, such as Command Prompt or File Explorer ) to map a network-shared folder, the process will create a pointer to the destination folder that will appear in File Explorer as a drive with the letter you assigned it....

In learning the basics of navigating Windows 8 with the mouse and keyboard (part 1) , we looked at the new lock screen, the new “Start button” and how to use the Start screen; also how to switch through running apps, and the Charms to move around the new Windows 8 user interface. Continuing with Windows 8 navigation in part 2, I got many other navigation tips, so let’s get right to them:...