There has been an unusual issue with Bluetooth on Windows 10/11 where users may see the “Remove Failed” error when they try to remove one of their Bluetooth devices. Most of the cases are relating to wireless controllers (such as PS4 and Xbox Controllers) and Bluetooth audio devices. I’ve been […]
If a program does not support Unicode (a universal character encoding standard for use with different language), the characters in the program may not be showing properly if it consists of characters of languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, etc. If this happens, there is an option in Windows […]
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 […]
During Windows 10/11 setup, when you select a particular hard drive or SSD and click “Next”, the setup displays an error that reads “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style“. This could happen when you run Windows Setup via a bootable […]
When you right click on a file or folder, you see an option in the context menu that reads “CRC SHA” along with other options such as CRC-32, CRC-64, SHA-1 and SHA256 when you mouse over to it. What are these options that suddenly appear on the context menu in […]
In Windows operating system, administrative permissions are required to perform certain actions that would make changes to the system or data such as installing or uninstalling an app or program, renaming, moving or deleting a file or folder. A user account in Windows can be either an administrator, or a […]
To clear things up, the .tar extension is a file format that archive multiple files into a single file without compression. The .gz (Gzip) is a compression method in which the logical size of the files is reduced to save disk space. The .tar and .gz are usually used together […]
Depending on what you want to achieve, you can switch the WiFi radio frequency on some of the 5GHz supported wireless adapters between 5GHz and 2.4GHz in Windows 10, or you can also change the WiFi frequency directly from your wireless router which will affect all devices connected to it. […]
A ghost file is a file that is still visible in File Explorer but Windows returns “Item not found” or “File not found” error when you try to delete it. It is there but at the same time not actually there. This guide shows a few solutions on how to […]
There are often times we need to rotate or flip an image that was incorrectly rotated or facing the wrong direction. In Windows 10, there are several ways to quickly flip or rotate an image without using external apps, while preserving the quality of the original image. Flip or Rotate […]
Resizing images is one of the most common things we would we when we edit a picture, image or a photo. Whether you want to downsize or enlarge an image, we would usually have to use a third party software to do so in Windows OS. If you are using […]
Printing a long and large image on multiple pages can be easily achieved by using third-party graphic software such as Adobe Photoshop. But for the casual users like us, we don’t call this easy. Fortunately in Windows 10, paint can amazingly do the job. If let’s say you have a […]
Back then, when we want to take a screenshot, we would do it by clicking the PrtScr (Print Screen) button, pasting it into Windows Paint and then save it. Fortunately for now, there is a much easier way to take screenshot in Windows 10 without the need of using Paint […]
In Windows 10, there is a specific file in the system folder called “hosts”. This file allows mappings of IP addresses to host names. For example, if you would like the host name abc.example.com to resolve to the IP address 127.0.0.1, you can add the mapping to the hosts file. […]
The Microsoft Photos app is a photo viewer software in Windows 10 that comes with your Windows 10 installation. If you haven’t installed any other photo viewer software, Photos app will be used as the default photo viewer. Photo apps is generally convenience, yet most of Windows users including us […]
Though Photos app is one of the most welcomed features in Windows 10, it’s not perfect. There have been many cases about Windows 10 Photos App not working, won’t open or crashing randomly when launched. Sometimes, it could also have problems such as displaying blurry images even though you’re sure […]