This guide will show you how to change the refresh rate of desktop screen in Windows 11. Unlike the refresh rate you set in games, this is the refresh rate Windows uses to run the desktop screen and any app that runs in windowed mode. What is refresh rate and […]
When you Install a game through Steam Client, Steam will usually automatically create a desktop shortcut for the installed game in Windows. You can also manually create desktop shortcut for any game from the Steam Library. However, there are cases where the game’s desktop shortcut created by Steam is not […]
Windows 11 introduces many user interface changes, especially the settings part. The old Windows sound settings that used to be easily accessible from the taskbar back in older versions of Windows is now lying quite deep within the Windows 11 sound settings. Here’s how to open the old sound settings […]
Changing mouse DPI is usually a gamer’s concern, especially for first-person shooter games which mouse DPI or sensitivity plays a big role in improving aiming in the game. Most players would want to use the same DPI settings (commonly 400, 800 or 1200) as the pro players who are at […]
This short tutorial will show you how to quickly take a screenshot on Oculus Quest 2 or Oculus Rift S VR headset, and how to transfer the screenshots, photos or recorded videos from Oculus Quest 2 to PC (Windows 10). Since the Oculus interface and available features differ between Oculus […]
If you experience lags or poor performance in game specifically while watching YouTube or Twitch on Chrome at the same time, here are two tips on how to reduce game lags while Chrome is opened in Windows 10 (also works for other browsers such as Firefox or Edge). Though I […]
If you feel the mouse pointer moves too fast across the screen with very little mouse movements, this short tutorial will show you how to slow down or adjust the mouse speed to your preference in Windows 10. The value or setting that determines the speed of mouse pointer and […]
Superfetch and Prefetch services are parts of Windows 10 features that helps accelerate the startup of frequently used apps. Since the services have to loads data into memory and drives as cache, they may cause negative impact on gaming performance or multimedia processing on your PC. If that’s the case, […]
When you try to install a game via Steam client on the default Steam library or a new Steam library on a new drive, Steam prompts the error “Failed to add new steam library folder” and the installation process couldn’t proceed. How to fix “Failed to add new Steam library […]
Users can set a process to use only certain core(s) of the CPU by setting the CPU affinity of the process in task manager. Users can also set the CPU Priority for each process so that Windows knows which processes to prioritize when it comes to managing CPU resources. However, […]
If you experience lags or poor performance in game specifically while watching YouTube or Twitch on Chrome at the same time, here are two tips on how to reduce game lags while Chrome is opened in Windows 10 (also works for other browsers such as Firefox or Edge). Though I […]
If you receive the error that reads Not enough memory resources are available to process this command in Windows 10, it indicates that there is not enough memory to execute the command you enter, usually in CMD – command prompt. It may also happen when you access shared items on […]
If you are seeing YourPhone.exe suddenly pops up in the task manager and using up heavy GPU resources as a background process, here’s a short post about what is YourPhone.exe, what does it do and how to disable it in Windows 10. What does YourPhone.exe do in Windows 10? YourPhone.exe […]
Have you noticed that your Windows PC suddenly slows down, and you went to the Task Manager to find that there is this process called .NET Runtime Optimization Service (Mscorsvw.exe) is causing high CPU usage in Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 or 2012? If so, this article will explain what […]
If you are seeing the WMI Provider Host, with the process name of WmiPrvSE.exe in the Task Manager, running at abnormally high CPU usage in Windows 10, this post will show you why and what you can do about it. It’s important that you know what WMI Provider Host is, […]
Blue screen of Death is one of the scariest things that can happen to your PC. It can just happen randomly without warning or any time window for you to save your work. If you’re seeing blue screen with the error code that reads CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED after Windows Update (particularly the […]