Windows 10 Tips

Whether you're operating In a work environment, or have a network setup at home with multiple computers and virtual machines up and running, It's Important to protect your sensitive data by using BitLocker Drive Encryption. As such, sometimes there Is the need to check the status of the encrypted drives or partitions, particularly when Implementing changes. In this tutorial, I will show you how to check In depth details of BitLocker encrypted drives.

To allow your Windows 10 operating system to function at It's optimal state, by default, Windows shares your computer's CPU resources between every application that's running In the background. If an application Is allocated a higher priority level, It gets more CPU resources, thus allows better performance. You can however, manually apply priority levels according to your needs. Wouldn't It be great If you could do this via a right-click of the mouse? Well, In this tutorial, I will show you how to add Run with priority to the right-click context menu.

Having your computer perform certain tasks with your voice alone, without the need to use the keyboard and mouse, was unimaginable back In the days of the good old 16-bit Windows 3.1 operating system. Nowadays, It's very much a reality by using the native Speech Recognition utility In Windows 10. To have It readily available, In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a Speech Recognition shortcut on your desktop.

One of the good things about Windows 10, aside from an array of perks at your fingertips, Is It's multiple power management settings that allow you to control how your computer behaves, such as turning off the display after a certain period of Inactivity. If however, you're sharing your PC and do not want users messing around with the display settings, In this tutorial, I will show you how to securely prevent anyone from turning It off.

The security of  your Windows user account, Is only as good as the password that's used to protect It. If It's based on commonly used, easy to guess or contains some sort of personal entries, such as part of your full name and date of birth, It's like leaving the key under the mat In your own home- an open Invitation for anyone to gain access. As such, In this tutorial, I will show you how to set a password complexity requirement for user accounts.

If you're working In a busy environment, whereby you're copying and/or moving files and folders quite regularly on a daily basis, by default, Windows 10 has the Move to folder and Copy to folder In the Home tab In the File Explorer ribbon. This however, Is not very convenient when performing heavy operations from one directory to another. As such, I will demonstrate how to add the Copy and Move to folder to the right-click context menu.

The Windows Task Manager, Is native to the Windows platform and Is a very useful utility to both perform and monitor an array of tasks on your computer. For Instance, you can view all active processes running In the background, terminate those that you don't need and the list goes on. You can also customize It according to your needs, however sometimes you may wish to start fresh again, hence In this tutorial, I will show you how to reset Task Manager to It's default state.