Windows 10: How to Bring Back Aero Peek Do you keep trying to go to the side of the taskbar to try and use Aero Peek and it doesn’t seem to work anymore? This is because, in Windows 8, this was the spot for the charms bar, so they had to make room for that. The good news is, the charms bar is gone and you can now bring back Aero Peek if you enjoyed it. If you’re unsure of what this is, it’s a feature that allows you to “Peek” at your desktop with windows open, much like below: Before Aero peek After Aero peek It’s hard to see in a picture, but there are two windows that were looking through if you hover over the bottom right icon. Plus, if you click the white line, it minimizes every screen on the desktop, then click it again, it will open all the windows again. How to enable Aero Peek 1.      1.  Right Click the Taskbar to open the hidden menu and click taskbar options: 1.      2. This will open the taskbar settings menu and

Windows 10: Desktop & Start Menu Back in the day, things we’re a bit more cryptic on how to do things. You just had a command prompt to maneuver around and find the things you wanted or needed. It was unforgiving, if you miss a /, you didn’t get where you wanted to go. Nowadays, things are much pretty and uniformed. Even other operating systems (Mac, Chrome OS, Linux) have a familiar feel to them. Much prettier settings. On the same token, they also open up a lot more options on how to do things and where to find things. So let's dig in and explore the Desktop and the start menu. The Lock Screen The lock screen, everyone knows what this is, unless you have been living under a rock. But it is your gateway to your computer. Locking it down to keep your files safe from peering eyes. It now serves a bigger purpose, giving you information at a glance, depending on how you have it set up. You can have it tell you the weather, see what time it is and

How To: Turn Off Hibernation in Window 10 If you’re ever having trouble with your computer not waking up after you put it to sleep, you may be having trouble with Hibernation. Essentially when you put the computer to sleep, it puts the computer into a very low power state but keeps all the documents you’re working on in memory, so your computer can start up again quickly and have what you’re working on available to you again. If your computer is sleeping for a certain amount of time, it then will go into hibernation mode. It will take your documents you’re working on and save it to the Hard Disk, then index what you’re working on. In this case, it will then load those documents back up into memory when you wake the computer again. In most cases, this can be helpful, but sometimes it can cause issues if it isn’t working correctly, so it is helpful to be able to turn hibernation off. So here is how to do it: 1 Search for power in the start menu: 2.        Cli

A Windows 10 Introduction  Windows 10 Windows 10 introduction Windows 10, the successor to Windows 8, and most people are glad that it’s gone. Although Windows 8 did have it’s features that were handy, but most people got too irritated to get that far. I remember I got Windows 8 at release and there was a big learning curve that is for sure. But they did add a lot of cool features with it. And with some tweaking, I did get it set up to work nicely. Windows 10 brought all the good features from Windows 8 and makes the parts that sucked work much better. I really enjoy windows 10 and despite some technical glitches that seem to pop up from time to time, I feel like it is a great operating system. Although when announced, they said this would be the final operating system. That this would just be updated with patches and they would continue to fix bugs, I heard rumors Windows 11 being built, and I hope it is even better.   But let’s find out what Windows

Insignia Wireless Headphones Review: My Opinion Model: NS-CAHBTOE01 Video Review So, I got a new job as a Software Engineer and I needed a new headset for my office as my old ones were going to hell and I wanted something wireless I could use so I didn’t have to be tethered to my desk. I wanted to get a good pair without having to pay a premium price. So off to Best Buy I went to look around and see what I could find. I went to the computer section, either all the headsets were either high end. All the fancy lights for gaming plus the extra programmable buttons I didn’t really need for my day job. There was another section with a couple of cheap headsets, but they looked too cheap and they looked like they wouldn’t hold sound very well and didn’t want to irritate my neighbors at work when they hear my jam session. I left the computer section and went to the dedicated headset section. They all were really overpriced for what I was looking for, noise-cancelin