The Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 allows you to better control the downloads and uploads of Windows Update. You can now set a download bandwidth limit, ensuring that Windows Update does not put your Internet connection online with its downloads in the background. The Settings application also allows you […]
Have you noticed that many new desktop applications look a lot like websites? This is not your imagination. From Trello to Slack, from WordPress.com to Github, it's becoming more common for so-called desktop apps to bundle a website with some native features like notifications, system access files and menus. The […]
Windows 10 includes a variety of universal applications and there is no easy way to hide them in the "All Apps" view of the new Start menu. You can uninstall them, but Microsoft does not allow you to uninstall them easily in the usual way. Before we begin, we recommend […]
We all know that it is important to back up your Mac with Time Machine but do not forget to plug in your external drive can be a problem, especially if you are a MacBook user. Network backups are therefore convenient: you do not have to remember to do anything. […]
One of the most common steps when troubleshooting a PC is to boot into safe mode. Until Windows 7, you did this by pressing the F8 key during startup, just before loading Windows. All that changed with Windows 8 and its introduction of auto repair mode – something that goes […]
Whether you want to occasionally test a website in Safari or try some software in the Mac environment, it is useful to have access to the latest version of macOS in a virtual machine. Unfortunately, you're not really supposed to do that – so running macOS in VirtualBox is, to […]
Windows 10 now includes color filters, an accessibility feature that changes the color of everything on your screen. They apply at the system level and function in the same way as Night Light so that they work with any application. Filters can turn your screen into black and white, invert […]
Regular backups are essential. When your hard drive dies – and it will die later – it's important to know that you have another copy of everything somewhere. PC users can use the Windows file history to back up their data but Mac users have something that is probably simpler […]
You are using Disk Utility to partition your new hard drive when you have a choice of multiple file systems. The list is longer than you think, with terms such as "APFS (case sensitive)" and "Extended Mac OS (journaled, encrypted)". What does all this mean, and which one should you […]
The update of the creators of Autumn of Windows 10 adds a folder "3D Objects" to this PC. It even appears in the sidebar of the file explorer. Microsoft is clearly trying to promote Paint 3D and other new 3D features of Windows 10, but you can hide the folder […]