Windows 11 came with a number of refreshed default apps and a sleek new user interface, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. The basic media app often struggles with unusual formats or HDR content, the UI changes were not universally popular, it still lacks the ability to interact with some kinds of files effectively, and managing your installed apps is a messy nightmare.
[mai mult...]Task Manager won’t tell you what’s eating your RAM, but this free app will
We’ve all been there. Your PC is lagging, you open up task manager to see what is going on, and the graph shows you that 95% of your RAM is in use. Switching to the process tab doesn’t help; the numbers don’t seem to add up.
If you’re just doing basic troubleshooting, numbers that don’t add up might not matter—maybe the app using 45% of your RAM is glaringly obvious. If you need more granular information, however, it can be a problem. If you want to more accurately diagnose a memory hog, I’d recommend RAMMap, which is part of Microsoft Sysinternals Suite.
[mai mult...]I reclaimed the Windows Start menu by turning off these 5 features
Microsoft keeps stuffing new features into the Windows 11 Start menu, and with most of them enabled by default, it has become unnecessarily cluttered. Add web search results that have zero value—when I need to search the web, I’ll just open a browser—and you end up with a Start menu that feels bloated rather than helpful. By disabling the following features and options, I turned the Start menu on my Windows 11 PC into a lightweight application launcher and local search interface.
[mai mult...]Your Excel charts are hard to read
Excel’s default charts often make data harder to read, with distracting gridlines, awkward spacing, and attention-grabbing colors. That’s why I have a quick cleanup routine to transform basic charts into more professional-looking visuals in minutes.
[mai mult...]Excel finally fixed its worst problems
For years, Excel was powerful but temperamental. You learned pretty quickly to walk on eggshells around your formulas just to keep things from breaking. But while most of us were building workarounds and muscle-memory fixes, Microsoft was quietly upgrading the engine under the hood in ways that weren’t obvious from the surface.
[mai mult...]Stop reinstalling Windows and try these 4 built-in tools first
Why averages are killing your Excel spreadsheet logic
You might have heard the idiom about the guy with his feet in a freezer and his head in an oven: on average, he’s perfectly comfortable. In Excel, we do this with our data every day. Averages are great summaries, but they can quietly sabotage your decisions.
[mai mult...]Tips to speed up file transfers on Windows 11
If you’re experiencing slower file transfer speeds on your Windows 11 PC, there are tweaks you can make to your system to speed up the transfers.
[mai mult...]5 Windows security features that mostly just get in the way
These hidden Windows repair tricks fix corrupted files
Corruption is bad in any walk of life, but you certainly don’t want it in your computer. Yet when your apps aren’t working correctly, or Windows seems to just crash for no reason, there’s a good chance file corruption is the culprit.
If you’re really lucky, Windows will straight up give you an error message that cites file corruption or alludes to files being unreadable. Either way, there are more than a few ways to quickly restore corrupted Windows system files without doing anything drastic—like a complete hard drive wipe and reinstallation.
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