The following steps will guide you through the process of forcing Windows 10 applications to sleep: Click on the gear icon on the lower left side of the Start menu to access your computer’s settings. Click on the “Privacy” option in Settings. On the left side of the screen, scroll down until you find “Background … Read more
Today I encountered an interesting problem. In a friend’s network where he was using Mikrotik router, the DHCP queue was getting full. I took a look into the router console. This was the first time I got into the Mikrotik router. There is a software called Winbox for configuring Mikrotik routers. We successfully deleted the … Read more
Yesterday was Patchday for August 2021 and the various .NET versions and Visual Studio 2019 were also updated. Various security gaps and vulnerabilities have been fixed in the .NET versions. For example CVE-2021-34485 , CVE-2021-26423 and CVE-2021-34532 . For .NET 2 it was the last update. It is now listed under “End of life” and no longer receives any updates. The Visual Studio 2019 … Read more
Intel followed suit with the new graphics driver in version 30.0.100.9805 after Nvidia and AMD updated their drivers. NARAKA: BLADEPOINT will be added to the list of gaming highlights. Nevertheless, errors have been corrected as well. There have been intermittent crashes or dropouts in Doom Eternal (Vulkan), War Thunder, Persona 4 Golden, as well as … Read more
Minecraft is a game that allows you to spend hours creating, enchanting, crafting, fighting, exploring, etc. Minecraft is also available on the Windows 10 platform. If you are a Minecraft lover, you should definitely play it on your PC. There will be times when you want to backup the saved data from Minecraft because you … Read more
Microsoft Edge Stable has now been updated to address the same security holes as Google Chrome 32. A total of 23 security vulnerabilities have been fixed. Two of the security vulnerabilities are related specifically to Microsoft Edge. CVE-2021-31937 allowed privilege extensions to be bypassed, whereas CVE-2021-31982 allowed security functions to be bypassed. Here is a … Read more
Sometimes Windows does not permit formatting a USB drive using File Explorer. It gives an error message of not being able to format the drive continuously. In this situation, the user can format a USB flash drive using command prompt or PowerShell. Here are the steps involved in formatting a USB flash drive using command … Read more
Version 6.01 of WinRAR has been released, which is the first update since the release of version 6 in December 2020. There are a few new features and some bugs that have been fixed. WinRAR 6.01 comes with a 40-day free trial but in actuality, you can use it for an unlimited amount of time. … Read more
In Windows 10, it’s possible to prevent apps from running in the background to save battery, data, and (some) system resources. Windows 10 comes with an array of apps pre-installed. Apart from the preinstalled apps, one or more apps may have been installed from the Microsoft Store. It goes without saying that many of these … Read more
If you find yourself working with multiple windows on your screen frequently and you have trouble dragging them all to make them look perfect, then these keyboard shortcuts will come in handy. Here are a number of different keyboard shortcuts that can help you easily manipulate your window sizes and locations on the screen to … Read more
