Types of Office Product Keys The process to find or replace a product key depends on the kind of Office suite that you are installing. These are the different kinds of Office product keys: Retail Perpetual Product Key for Boxed Products This product key is located on a label attached to the inside cover of the Office box. Remove the Office Quick Start Guide. The label appears directly underneath....

Let’s assume that you have connected a USB drive to your Windows 10 computer, but it is not appearing in This PC or File Explorer. That means you cannot access the files. It could occur when some settings are changed randomly, or after a malware attack. It can also appear after a Windows Upgrade. USB drive not appearing in This PC You need to assign a drive letter to your partition or USB drive to make it visible in This PC....

Install on my devices feature of Microsoft Store The way to navigate to the web interface of the Microsoft Store is by searching for an app on any of the search engines like Bing or Google. Then after getting the suitable link, you can head over to it and get on the page. Another way to find your app is by heading directly to the home page of the Microsoft Store web page and use the inbuilt search functionality to find your desired app....

Task View is a virtual desktop manager for Windows 11/10 and is launched, when you click on its button, next to the Search bar on the taskbar. Using this feature, you can create different arrangements of your running apps and open programs. You can create new Desktops, open different apps in each, work in each or any of them whenever you want, close the opened desktops when you finish work, etc....

Vivaldi Browser Review Here is a list of all the features that are available in the latest version of the Vivaldi browser for Windows 10 PC. The recent features have been listed in the top, followed by the rest of them. This alternative browser offers a lot of customization, privacy control, and an anti-tracking feature, which makes it stand out. 1] Manage and Block trackers Vivaldi offers a built-in Tracker blocker, which makes sure you are not followed through the internet....

Fix Volume stuck at 100% on Windows 11/10 To fix the problem where your Windows volume bar is stuck at 100% follow these suggestions: Now let us see these in detail. 1] Restart your Windows PC The first and foremost step to do is to restart your Windows 11/10 PC and then adjust the volume bar. Sometimes, simply restarting your PC could fix this issue. See if this works! Read: Taskbar Volume Control not working in Windows...

A few Windows users have also experienced the Blue Screen of Death while using a VPN. VPN causes computer to crash or freeze If VPN causes your Windows computer to crash or freeze, then here are some of the fixes you can try to resolve the issue: Before you begin, ensure that you have not misconfigured your VPN software. It is best to start with its default settings. 1] Change your system settings to allow incoming VPN connections One possibility that your computer freezes up while using a VPN is that your computer’s security settings are too high....

Web fonts appear blurry in Internet Explorer Update Fonts You can update some fonts to improve how they look when shown in small font sizes (8 to 10-point size) in Internet Explorer 9. The problem occurs because of a design change that alters the pattern via which Internet Explorer 9 renders text. By default, Internet Explorer 9 uses sub-pixel positioned ClearType to render text by using DirectWrite, whereas Internet Explorer 8 uses whole-pixel positioned ClearType to render text by using the Microsoft Windows graphics device interface (GDI)....

New ways to Sign-in to Windows 11/10 While most of us are familiar with the usual ways to sign in to Windows 1/110, these are the three new ways to sign in to your Windows 11/10 computer system now: Enable Web sign-in to Windows Device Until now, Windows Logon supported the use of identities which was federated Active Directory Federation Services or other providers that support the WS-Fed protocol. Starting with Windows 10 v1809, Microsoft has introduced — Web Sign-in....

What are FragAttacks? FragAttacks term is coined with the phrase Fragmentation and Aggregation Attacks. These are security threats that target WiFi devices. In these attacks, the attacker basically targets a device that is within the range of its WiFi network and steals the victim’s sensitive information (e.g., password). These attacks impact all recent WiFi security protocols including WPA3 and WPA2. Home routers, IoT, smartphones, and many other devices are affected by these kinds of attacks....

Microsoft Signature Edition PC Introduced last year, a Microsoft Signature PC is configured by Microsoft engineers to operate at peak performance with superior reliability. It includes 30 days of free technical support for your software. Buy a new PC and you can get free phone support for the first 90 days. These PCs include the following Signature suite of programs: Internet ExplorerWindows Media CenterInternet TV Update for Media CenterPlay-ready PC Runtime for WMCMicrosoft Security EssentialsMicrosoft SilverlightAdobe Flash Player for IEAdobe Acrobat ReaderBing 3D MapsZune 4....

What is CandyOpen? CandyOpen is classified by almost all antivirus and system protection programs as a Potentially Unwanted App (PUA). Technically, CandyOpen is not a virus or malware. However, it has rootkit capabilities that allow it to invasively install and reside deep beneath the surface of a computer’s OS. Once installed on a user’s computer, CandyOpen can do the following: Change the infected user’s browser homepage and tamper with their preferences/settings....

What is File Fragmentation How does Windows store files on the hard disk? Probably you know the answer. It tries to locate the first free sector equivalent to the file size – on the hard disk. It then stores the file there – along with some extra space we call padding. This padding provides for the expansion of files later. However, the calculation for padding is not accurate – given the fact that it is up to the user to decide how big the file can become later....

What is RegAsm.exe in Windows 11/10? RegAsm is the short form of Register Assembly. RegAsm.exe is a genuine component of Windows developed by Microsoft. RegAsm.exe opens the Assembly Registration tool. When the Assembly Registration tool is opened, it reads the metadata within an assembly and adds the necessary entries to the registry. RegAsm.exe is only responsible for opening the Assembly Registration tool. It does not pose any threat to your PC....

Let us investigate S.M.A.R.T and find out what it is all about. 1] What is Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology S.M.A.R.T or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology is used by hard drives to measure reliability and to see if they are failing. The S.M.A.R.T capability is built into every hard drive and tests every aspect of its performance to make sure it is performing up to the required standards. S....

What is the YourPhone.exe process? The YourPhone.exe process when running on Windows can send and receive messages and data from your phone to your computer. Since the program, YourPhone.exe, needs to keep sending any notification on the phone to the desktop the process is kept running at all times. Using this for Microsoft apps, you can continue where you left on the phone. So as you keep linking apps, the better the experience – provided you are using the same Microsoft account both on the phone and the computer....

Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense is a feature in Windows 10 that allows you to connect to your friend’s shared Wi-Fi connections. That is, you and your friends may opt to share your or their Wi-Fi connections. Friends, according to Microsoft, are people on your Facebook friend list, your Outlook contacts, and Skype contacts. By default, all of these 3 are pre-checked. When you opt to turn it on in Windows 10, these ‘friends’ can connect to your Wi-Fi without knowing your password....

Windows 10 boots to Welcome Screen instead of OOBE The reason that you might experience the issue whereby you turn on a new Windows 10 device for the first time and the device starts on the Welcome Screen, instead of starting in OOBE is because dwm.exe, a critical Windows process fails to start. According to Microsoft, in some circumstances, the video driver sends a TDR (Timeout Detect Recovery) which (by design) leads to Winlogon to stop and restart the DWM....

New Features in Windows 10 v2004 The list of new features in Windows 10 v2004 includes are quite significant. You should be able to see them right away after you install this feature update: I am sure there are a lot many features that have been rolled out. Features related to languages, minor changes to accessibility are not included in the list. 1] Cortana App & Skills Cortana is now a standalone app that is free from the taskbar and is not deeply integrated with Windows Search....

The game download is likely to fail if there is an internet connectivity issue.If your Windows OS or graphics and other device drivers are outdated, this problem will occur.In case you have logged in to Xbox with a different account than the account you have used for Microsoft Store, you will face this issue.This problem will occur while purchasing a game if your PC Game Pass subscription is expired.Another reason for the same issue is the fact that there is not enough free space available on your drive where you are trying to install and store Xbox games....