You can also use the headphone jacks on your computer to play audio from another device, listen to it from the built-in speakers, and also connect external speakers and listen through it. Many users aren’t aware of this feature. This feature is available in Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. How to hear yourself on mic in Windows 10 Listening to oneself through a speaker can help you with a speech, and how you may sound like to others....

We tend to download the drivers from the vendor once, and then keep them safe to install again and again. If you have upgraded Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or Windows 11 from Windows 7, it will not let you install drivers used in Windows 7 or prior Operating Systems. Since Windows 11 is new, there are not many companies that have provided drivers with their components and devices for Windows 11, but you can use most of the Windows 10 drivers in Windows 11 without any issues....

Why are these features not included in Windows 10 N Edition? This is because of European laws. N stands for No Media. European competition authorities forbid companies to package media products inside of Windows to make sure other media companies can compete with Microsoft on the Windows platform. The story is similar in the case of Windows 10 KN Edition. Microsoft abides by the Korean laws and does not add the multimedia functionality by default in Windows....

However, occasionally, these hidden and protected files and folders need to be accessed to make informed changes, like the pagefile.sys. Therefore, one needs to be able to view and access them. In this post, we are going to show you multiple ways to view and access the hidden and protected system files in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. Before we dig into the methods to view these hidden files and folders, there is some insight we would like to share with our readers....

Windows 7 had a startup option: “Boot with last known good configuration” which was highly useful if the computer could not boot to the login screen. Windows 10 is missing this feature. If you have not enabled the System Restore feature in Windows 10, then it becomes more complex to recover the unbootable system. If the system is unable to boot after the last Windows update, you can uninstall the update even without logging into Windows....

You can also check which version of .NET Framework is already installed on your computer. NET Framework 4 7 2 detection on Windows 10 Version 1803 .NET Framework 4.7.2 comes with two installers, web installer and offline installer. The web installer is the stub installer which will start the download process after it is run while offline installer does not require Internet access for installation. .NET Framework 4.7.2 Changelog [ASP....

Not only that, but it also brings along some new performance and feature updates that we think our gaming community would appreciate. Release Summary Complete Release Build: 103.0.1264.37Release Date: Thursday, June 23rd, 2022Compatibility: Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.Previous Build: Edge 102 What’s New in Microsoft Edge 103 Several new features have been added to the Edge browser in this release, most of which are focused on the gamers as Microsoft wanted to make Edge the one-stop solution for web gaming....

Users can download and install either one of these builds, but not both. Once a branch has been chosen, Windows will continue to download the following Insider updates from the same branch until Microsoft finally shifts all Dev users to the RS_PRERELEASE channel, which they claim will be done after the upcoming holidays. Note that each build will bring different features and fixes to the OS. Let’s see what builds 20277 and 21277 have to offer....

Active Directory is a database system that allows each machine within a network to communicate with each other. It makes information more accessible and allow admins to grant permissions to specific users. One the most critically valuable benefits of using Active Directory in your business is the control that provides you as an admin. When you connect all of your users to Active Directory, you can oversee the activities that go on throughout your entire company on a single access point....

The Windows operating system comes with its own integrated display calibration tool known as “Display Color Calibration,” using which an end-user can calibrate all of their monitors to obtain colors as accurate as the real ones, and even have the same color output across the different display devices. However, in this post, we are going to discuss several online tools that you can use to calibrate the different settings of your display....

The exact Insider Preview build is 19042.508 (KB4571756). While this may not be the exact build of the stable version as Microsoft plans to continue improving features and stability until its final release, it will be closer to this number. In this article, we will discuss the possible release date of Windows 10 October 2020 Update and the expected new features included in this feature update. Windows 10 October 2020 Update Release Date Although it is not publicly available, Microsoft has announced that the 20H2 update is available to download as an optional feature for Windows Insider users....

Last week they released build 20231.1000 that introduced new features like a dedicated OOBE page and per-device or per-user default application management. Soon after, they also released a new build 20231.1005, however, this build was primarily a means to check Microsoft’s servicing pipeline. The new Preview Build 20236 brings exciting new features to the table. Users will now be able to manage their screen refresh rates directly from Windows Settings....

If you are anticipating the release of Windows 11 version 22H2, then join the Windows Insider Program today and check out the new features. This flight introduces 2 new Windows applications, to which you can find below, along with other fixes and changes. However, there are also several problems with Build 22572, which have also been briefly discussed in this post. Let us now continue to see exciting new features on this flight....

If you have 64-bit Windows installed, you can install 64-bit as well as 32-bit applications. Both can run in parallel as both Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 are backward compatible. The question arises of how we can check whether an application is 32-bit or 64-bit. In this article, we will discuss the different ways using which you can easily identify whether an application is 32-bit or 64-bit. How to Check Program Bit Architecture Using Task Manager Follow the steps below to check a program’s bit architecture in Windows using the Task Manager: Windows 11 For Windows 10, refer to the section below....

An ISO image is even capable of keeping files of the installed operating system. With the availability of ISO images, we can make bootable USB flash drives and install any OS to our systems. You may need to convert a folder to an ISO file if you need to share the contents of the folder in a single file or recompile an image after making modifications to it. Want to convert a folder to an ISO image?...

Microsoft has finally enabled IMAP protocol in their Outlook.com email service. Currently, Outlook.com supports almost all connectivity protocols by which users can connect to their email service. The email protocols are used to connect the email service to the email client. The email client can be on a computer or any other device including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone or any other phone that supports email. The most popular email connectivity protocols include POP3, IMAP and Exchange ActiveSync....

A similar feature was first introduced in Windows 10 in 2017 with Windows Sets. However, that didn’t pan out, and Microsoft withdrew the feature. But with Windows 11, this feature has come to stay based on the feedback from Windows users. That said, not everyone is a fan of the feature. Not only the tab functionality is currently faulty and has a few glitches, but not everyone is used to using tabs in explorer....

Since it is a Preview release, Microsoft suggests that you do not run it in the production environment, but rather use it for testing purposes only. However, we will only be discussing on how you can install Visual C++ Redistributable 2022 only, while not having to deal with the entire Visual Studio 2022. Update: Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2022 stable version. We are updating this post with Visual C++ redistributable 2022 direct download links....

This article lists down how and from where you can download the JDBC drivers for the following databases: MySQLSQL ServerOraclePostgreSQLApache Derby (Java DB)SQLiteH2Microsoft Access What is Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Driver As we already mentioned, the JDBC driver is used to allow Java applications to be able to communicate with different databases. It uses the JDBC API initially developed by Sun Microsystems as a means to use a standard method to access data in a variety of databases....

Microsoft has released updates for all supported versions of Windows 10, including Version 21H2, 21H1 and 20H2, Version 1909, Version 1809, Version 1607 and Version 1507. Some of these versions may be supported for the LTSC channel. As discussed in the article about KB5011493 for Windows 11, all the above mentioned Windows 10 versions have received the same update. There are also some known issues with this update. Known issues mean that the issues are known to Microsoft and will be fixed in the later releases of Windows Update....