What was Windows RT Windows RT was another flavor of Windows 8 released along with it designed specifically for low powered devices. As mentioned above, these low powered devices came with ARM processors like the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 or ARM chipsets made by makers like NVIDIA (Surface). This gradually decreased the cost of these new devices, and at the same time, you get great battery life. But you lose some things too....
Windows Activation fails If you have tried to enter your license key and activate it over the Internet, during installation or later by bringing up SLUI.EXE 3 and failed, you have another option, and that is to activate Windows 10 using the telephone. Activate Windows by Phone To do so, type SLUI.EXE 4 in the search bar and hit Enter to open the following dialog box. Select your country from the drop-down menu and click on Next....
Windows asks for PIN instead of password on Sign-in screen If you’re faced with this issue, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see if that helps to resolve the issue. Let’s take a look at the description of the process involved concerning each of the listed solutions. Before you try the solutions below, if you are presented with the PIN login prompt as shown in the lead-in image above, you can click other Sign-in options (the Key icon) and see if you can input your password and login successfully....
Windows Camera app error 0x200F4246 (0x80040154) Try the following solutions sequentially: 1] Update the Camera drivers To use the camera, the camera drivers must function well, or else it would break the connection between the hardware and the software. Thus, our first approach to solving the issue in the discussion should be updating the Camera drivers. A better idea would be to run the Intel Driver and Support Assistant or AMD Driver AutoDetect on your computer to update all the drivers at once....
Windows could not find a driver for your network adapter You could try the following solutions to resolve the issue: 1] Update the Network Adapter driver To update the Network Adapter driver, type devmgmt.msc in Start search box and hit Enter to open the Device Manager. Locate the Network Adapter drivers and expand the list. Right-click and select Update driver for each of the drivers. Restart the system and check if you are able to connect to the network now....
Fix Windows Defender firewall blocks Microsoft Edge Microsoft’s own defender app protects your device from malware and viruses, however, sometimes it blocks some apps such as Microsoft Edge, hence causing the issue. There are various reasons such as the firewall deeming some aspects of the app as a threat and blocking it. However, more often than not, the primary reason for this error is outdated Edge or Windows or both....
The tool, which is included in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), creates graphs and data tables of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events that are recorded by Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), Xperf, or an assessment that is run in the Assessment Platform. It can also open any event trace log (ETL) file for analysis. However, to do this, you’ll need to take the following actions: Windows Performance Analyzer 1] Open an ETL file in WPA To open an ETL file in WPA, click on the File menu, choose Open....
Windows Subsystem for Android vs BlueStacks comparision In this battle of Windows Subsystem for Android vs BlueStacks, we will compare them on the following parameters. Let us talk about them one by one. 1] App Availability Let us start with something you would want to know right off the bat. What’s the app availability situation on both corners? As you may already know, BlueStacks runs android apps natively on Windows, it’s not easy to miss this feature as that’s what their marketing is based on....
Fix Windows Update Assistant not working Follow these suggestions to resolve the issue where the Windows Update Assistant is not working on your Windows 11/10 PC. Make sure you are using an administrator account to execute these suggestions. 1] Restart the PC and Run it again Windows not getting updated can be a temporary issue, and a restart should fix it most of the time. So before we get into any complicated fixes, go ahead and give your computer a restart and then try to run the Windows update manually and see if it’s working....
In this article, we are going to talk about this issue and see what you need to do to fix Windows Update Error 0x80246001. What is Windows Update Error 0x80246001? Now, let us understand what the error code in question means. The error code 0x80246001 -2145099775 stands for WU_E_DM_URLNOTAVAILABLE and the explanation is “A download manager operation could not be completed because the requested file does not have a URL”....
WP7 MarketPlace Enabler WP7 MarketPlace Enabler goes a step further to make things easier. It allows you to access MarketPlace from anywhere in the world via your Zune software. You will be able to download the free apps for free For the Paid apps you will of course be required to pay as usual, via your Credit Card. This should presumably also translate into more sales for the WP7 app developers....
Now, this is a problem the Outlook team is looking into, and will eventually release a fix to get things back to normalcy. However, not everyone wants to wait until that happens, so is there a way to bypass the error until an official fix is released? Yes, there is a way, and it has everything to do with turning off Support Diagnostics. For those who are not sure what that is, well, it is all about giving users the ability to submit an In-App ticket by using Help....
The UAC or User Account Control is an in-built security feature of Windows that prevents the opening of some apps and stops them from making changes unless approved by you. There are four different types of security levels, and they work according to your requirements. The fourth option is Never notify me, and as it says, you won’t get any notification when a program tries to install software or makes any change to your computer....
Windows Activation Error 0x800704cF The first thing I will recommend you is to run the Windows Activation Troubleshooter via Windows 11 Settings > System and then select Troubleshoot. It should be able to resolve the issue automatically and activate your Windows. In case this has failed, follow the steps as below: Your product key should be in the confirmation email you received after buying Windows, included with the packaging that came with your computer, or on the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) attached to the back or bottom of your Computer....
When you encounter this issue, you’ll receive the full error message along the following lines; If you select Install anyway on the error prompt and upgrade to the newer version of Outlook software, and then you start Outlook, the following error message prompt will be displayed: And if you proceed to click OK on the error prompt, the following error message prompt will be displayed: Outlook may freeze at the splash screen for several minutes before these errors messages are displayed....
Your connection is not private error in Chrome If you see Your Connection is Not Private error in Google Chrome browser on Windows PC, see if these suggestions help you: Let us see these points in detail. 1] Check your computers Time The quickest fix for this problem is to ensure that your computer’s Time is accurate. You may get a notification reading “Your clock is behind” or “Your clock is ahead”....
Your organization has set some policies to manage updates.You have opted for the Windows Insider Program. Your organization has set some policies to manage updates. When you see this message, it means that your system administrator has configured these Windows 10 Settings for your organization, and you will have to contact him. The message also indicates that your system has been configured to receive Windows Insider Preview Builds. But if you are the only user of your PC, or the user of the Admin account, then here is what you can do to resolve the issue....
Remove Zone.Identifier It is the Attachment Manager in Windows that protects you against unsafe attachments and downloads by identifying the file type and the respective security settings. Based on the Zone Information, if it identifies an attachment that might be unsafe, it prevents you from opening the file, or it warns you before you open the file. We have seen how to automatically unblock downloaded files or disable unblocking features of Attachment Manager using the Group Policy or Registry Editor....
If Chrome is your default browser, and you do not want to change it then Microsoft Autofill might be the best password manager application for you. Let us see how to set up and how to use the Microsoft Autofill password manager on Google Chrome. Microsoft Autofill password manager for Chrome Using this Autofill extension, you can save the passwords online and avoid the problem of forgetting passwords. The application works on all the devices like Windows, macOS, Android Smartphones, and iOS devices....
Settings Search not working in Windows 11/10 First of all open your Computer folder, right-click on your system Drive which is C, and select Properties. Ensure that the Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties box is checked. If not, select it and then select Apply changes to subfolders and files. Now, open the following folder location: Here, right-click on the Indexed folder, and select Properties....
