If you’re here, chances are you’re looking to change the colors on Windows 10. It’s nice to make Windows your own and customize it, luckily, it’s pretty straight forward and let's get started. 1.    First lets right click on your desktop and click personalize, like below: 2.    You will be presented with a new window, on the left you want to select colors: 3.  You will be presented with multiple options:      ·          Choose your color: This will allow you to select preset colors, either light, dark, or custom. Light and dark will be preset and make your backgrounds either light or dark by default. Custom allows you to select the colors manually. ·          Transparency effects: this will make all Windows from the operating system slightly transparent so you can see through it. 4. Y ou can have the operating system automatically pick an accent color by checkin...

 If you’re here chances are you’re frustrated when trying to set up your wallpaper, it never looks nice when you try and fit it to a screen and wondering how to get it to look nicer. The first thing you need to understand is resolution sizes. The resolution size determines how it will look on your screen in comparison to your monitors' resolution. The resolution size is the number of pixels the image takes up on the screen, the first number indicates the width in pixels, the second number is the height of the image. It looks like 600x300. So on your screen, there are little light bulbs that are pressed together very closely. The image with a resolution of 600x300 will take up 600 of the light bulbs for the width, and 300 for the height. So what you’re going to want to do is find an image that matches the width and height of your monitor. The first thing you need to do is figure out the height and width of your monitor if you are not sure of what this is. Go to this website ...

  If you’re here you’re looking to find out how to change your wallpaper in Windows 10. They did change the name of this feature to Background. So no longer Wallpaper, not sure why they decided this, but it is what it is. So let’s get started: Right-click anywhere on your desktop and click personalize: You will be prompted with a new Screen with the Background options:            You want to select background on the left and you will see various options for the background. You will have a few options on the screen, one is the drop-down menu, that is labeled Background Of the three options, you have: Picture : This will be just one picture you can pic from your gallery. And this picture will never change. Once you choose this, you must click browse to pic an image from your gallery to use as the background. Solid Color: this will make the background a solid color, and you can choose the color you want towar...

Remember in the not too distant past, we used to always be using disks for stuff. If wanted to play a game, chances are you ran off to GameStop and bought a game that came with a disk. You went home and put it in the computer and installed the game. Well, we all know that is a thing of the past now. A lot of computers don’t even come with a disk drive anymore because they’re becoming less and less useful. But you’re looking for what an ISO file is right? Well, it’s a virtual disk, it’s a disk that is virtual and is on your computer. Look at this ISO file that is on my computer: The ISO image looks like a disk. That’s because it is a disk that is virtualized on your computer. The one in the image just happens to be a Windows 10 installation disk. I use it all the time for repairs. What Can You Do With An ISO File? There are only a couple of things you can do with an ISO file. You can double click it to open its content. It will have all the files and folders on there for whateve...

Windows 10 has the option to enable NTFS compression on your drive, this feature will automatically compress all files on the drive to a smaller size and do the work of this compression in the background for you. But if you’re here you know this and just want to know how to enable this feature, so let’s get started: 1. Open file explorer. 2. On the left menu, click on this PC. 3. Then you want to right-click on the device you want to compress and click properties.(note, the drive you select must be NTFS format) 4. Then be sure the General tab on the top is selected. 5. The check "Compress this drive to save disk space". 6. Then select Apply and ok. This will enable drive compression and could take some time for this to complete, wait for it to finish and you should be good to go. I hope this how-to was helpful, if you’re looking for any technical support, please check out my services at: Sinntechnologies.net Thanks for swinging by, have a good day!

If you’re here, you’re probably looking for a guide on how to Create a Zipped folder. I’m assuming at this point you know what is and just want to compress your files. So let's get started. 1.  Right-Click in the location you want to create a Zipped folder. 2. Click new, then select Compressed Zipped folder. 3. This will create a zipped folder in that location, then give the folder a name. Within the zipped folder, you can drag in whole folders or just files and they will then be compressed.   You can copy and paste folders in and out of the folder, and they will be compressed and decompressed as it is put in and taken out. In this example, we have a folder with a text file with some text. The size of the file in the none compressed folder: The size of the file now smaller in the compressed folder: You can also take a folder that isn’t compressed and make it compressed. Say you have a project with many folders and files and you’re done with it. You can send it to a zipped ...

You may have heard the term compression before and not be quite sure about what it is and what your options are to use compression. Compression will take the files you have and compress them down to a smaller size to save disk space. It uses symbols and special characters to replace words or phrases to save you disk space. There are a couple of different ways to compress your files, you can use the built-in NTFS compression. NTFS Compression Windows by default has compression built into its NTFS format. NTFS format is a formatting system for hard drives before you can begin to use the hard drive. We will not go into specifics of all that, but know that if you're using Windows, chances are you’re using the NTFS format. Within this format, compression is allowed if you enable it.  Compression and decompression is done on the fly without you noticing… maybe, we will get to that later. So if you save a file, in the background it will compress a file as soon as you hit save. And o...