Windows 10 Settings Search not working

The Settings app in Windows 10 offers you a search bar that let you quickly search for any setting. But some users have reported that the Windows 10 Settings Search Bar is not working, with the settings themselves not getting indexed. Even if your search using the taskbar search bar, you will not ...

Windows could not complete the installation

In this post I’ll describe two simple method using which will resolve a reboot loop issue in Windows 7. This problem usually occurs when a fresh Windows installation is interrupted before a user account is created. The following error message is displayed Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, ...

How to Take Screenshots in Windows 10

A screenshot is an image taken by a user to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, mobile device, or other visual output device in use. Today we’re going to show you how to take a screenshot in Windows. All the major platforms have some level of support for taking screenshots. There ...

How to Add and Monitor a Child’s Account in Windows 10

Your kids are the most important people in the world to you, and the Internet is a scary place that requires constant vigilance. Luckily, you can set up a child’s account in Windows 10 to make your job as a parent that much easier. We’ve talked about child’s accounts in Windows previously. ...

How to Switch From 32-bit Windows 10 to 64-bit Windows 10

Microsoft gives you the 32-bit version of Windows 10 if you upgrade from the 32-bit version of Windows 7 or 8.1. But you can switch to the 64-bit version, assuming your hardware supports it. If you had a 32-bit versions of Windows 7 or 8.1 installed on your PC and upgraded to Windows 10, Microsoft ...

How to Make Windows 10 Look More Like Windows 7

Windows 10 introduced many updated and the visual design wasn’t spared. If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 to take advantage of the new functionality, but preferred the aesthetics of Windows 7, there are steps you can take to best mimic the older operating system. From changing the Start menu ...

4 Tips to Fix 100% Disk Usage & Improve Windows Performance

Your computer is hanging. Same old Windows, right? Except you’re using a brand new Windows 8.x or Windows 10 device, you’ve only had it a few days. So just what is going on? Investigating, you discover that your system drive is running at 100%. Surely this can’t be right? Sadly, it is. The ...

The Windows 10 FAQ: Everything You Need to Know

Now that Windows 10 is available for public download and installation people have more questions than ever about the new version of Windows. We’ve rounded up the questions we get most frequently here at How-To Geek and compiled them to help you get up to speed about Windows 10. Every week ...

How to Disable the Lock Screen on Windows 8 or 10 Without Using Group Policy

Windows 8 or 10’s lock screen is at home on a tablet, but it just adds an additional key press to the login process on a desktop or laptop. You can disable the lock screen with a quick registry hack. Quickly Disable the Lock Screen If you do not want to edit the registry by hand, we have ...