Microsoft introduced Windows Hello with Windows 10 at launch. It gave Windows users a new and more secure way of authenticating their identity – while removing the need to remember passwords. Hello combines three different types of biometric authentication technologies – facial recognition, Iris scan, and fingerprint scans. Obviously, this …
Read More »Microsoft pushes Windows 10 Build 14393.222 to Release Preview Ring
Microsoft has released yet another update for the Release Preview Insiders to play with. On the PC this brings the Preview build to 14393.222; on Windows 10 Mobile it’s one less at 14393.221. The cumulative update comes as KB3194496 and brings a whole lot of fixes with it. Here’s the …
Read More »Windows 10 now runs on 400 million active devices
Microsoft Ignite starts today in Atlanta, and this is one of the first statistics Microsoft has decided to share with us. Windows 10 is now powering 400 million active devices – however, the ‘devices’ are not strictly Windows 10. Three months ago, Windows 10 was running on 350 million devices. …
Read More »Truecaller gets an update on Windows 10 Mobile, featuring new Caller ID experience
Most people who want to have accurate Caller ID information end up installing Truecaller. While it comes with its own privacy concerns, it does give you (mostly) accurate Caller ID details for every number that calls you. On the Windows 10 Mobile, the experience just got better with the new …
Read More »How To Clear File Explorer History In Windows 10
Windows being the most used OS for computers in the world comes with a plethora of features. While all of them are useful, some of them can work against you at times. One such feature is the file explorer history. For those of you who are unaware about it, let …
Read More »Set Bing Background as Wallpaper automatically on Windows 10
Microsoft has pleased many of the fans who were waiting for the next version of Windows with Windows 10. Windows 10 brings back the whole PC feel to PC and at the same time it is also the operating system that will be running on various different devices including laptops, …
Read More »How to Make Cortana Use Google Instead Of Bing in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with tonnes of different new features as well as improvements as compared to the last iteration of Windows. You get the all new look as well as the start menu that we desktop users missed so much on Windows 8 and 8.1 The start menu is an …
Read More »How to Create Free Wi-Fi Hotspot on Windows 10
A feature that we last saw on Windows 7, hosted network is now also available on Windows 10. For those of you who don’t know what it is and what it can possibly be used for, let me explain it to you. To put it in simple words, the hosted …
Read More »How To Delete The Recovery Partition In Windows 10
If you’ve bought a Windows 8 or Windows 10 operated PC in the recent past, you might have observed that some of the space on the PC’s hard disk is already occupied and not all the space that comes with it is available. One of the reasons why this happens …
Read More »Microsoft removes the Windows 10 upgrade app from Windows 7/8.1
Microsoft installed the ‘Get Windows 10’ app in an update for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 just before the launch of Windows 10. At the time, it was a great way to lift a sizeable chunk of the Windows user base to the latest OS. While Microsoft was being very …
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