The tiny tweaks in the update pushed to Windows 8.1 users last week transformed Microsoft’s Modern UI-tinged future into a truly PC-friendly operating system for the very first time, but as welcome as ...

How often has this happened to you? You're working on something at the server when a window locks up. Your only recourse is to open the Task Manager and kill the Explorer.exe process, which kills the ...

Pinning the Google Chrome icon to your desktop taskbar will help you launch this browser quickly. Windows 8 includes an option to pin application icons and keep them visible on the taskbar even when ...

Sometimes users will notice that their taskbar and desktop icons have gone missing. There are different methods of bringing back the desktop icons and taskbar on the computer screen. This article will ...

Web apps are an essential part of most people’s workflow, whether it’s writing an email in Gmail or editing a spreadsheet in Excel Online. It’s handy to have all your stuff in the cloud, for sure, but ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows 10 allows users on tablets to switch between desktop mode and tablet mode. While there is ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 has a native virtual desktop feature called Task View. Greg Shultz explains how to use this new feature. I’ve been using the Dexpot virtual desktop program for Windows for quite ...

Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked cleaner.