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Computers and the devices connected to them can consume an ample amount of electricity. That's why there are power options. Power options allow Windows to manage energy consumption. You can control how much energy the system consumes based on your usage. Two of the most important power options are ...
The scratch disk issue can happen for many reasons. Sometimes it's actually full, many times it is not and there is an error taking place. Whatever the case, you might run into some messages like these... So let's correct this. There are 2 ways to access the scratch disk settings in Photoshop....
SIP stands for System Integrity Protection. It is a feature in MacOS that enhances the security of the operating system. With SIP enabled, even the root account has many restrictions. SIP does not interfere with any general user operations, software installation, web browsing, etc. If you are just d...
I tried Installing an old version of Mavericks on my Macbook Pro and ran into this silly error message. "This copy of the Install OS X Mavericks application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." That was the end of my Mavericky aspirations... Or was it?....
Gatekeeper basically monitors app executions. If you try to run an application that is not from the Apple App Store and/or has not been approved by Apple in some way, the app will be blocked by Gatekeeper and unable to launch. This critically limits what you can run on your Mac. On the other hand it...
Ever been in the middle of sorting through files deep into a some random directories, with a whole bunch of Explorer windows open? Kinda like this... Now all of a sudden for some God-knows-what reason, you gotta restart?... Who wants to lose all their open Explorer windows, along with their paths an...
In Windows 10, launch Explorer and it opens the "Quick Access" window, by default. If you are like many of us, you may want or even need to change the default folder location when opening Windows Explorer. Usually people want it to open the root system view, which is "This PC" in Windows 10. You may...
One of my laptops has a standard DVD drive on it that never gets used. Well it does, but only once in a blue moon. My trusty dusty, handy dandy disk drive is definitely a keeper, but... I like to keep things organized and clutter-free, so if I'm not using something I don't want to see it in my scree...
There's hardly ever 1 way to do anything. Accessing files quickly in windows is no exception to the rule. If you ever get tired of having to navigate to that frequently used file over and over this should help. Depending on your needs, use one of the methods below to make your workflow more efficien...
If you have more than one Windows OS installed on the same system, you will be prompted each time you boot to select which OS you wanna load. Sometimes, after removing one of those operating systems, the entry will still be left behind, even though it doesn't exist anymore. This is annoying for many...