Your system may slow down to a crawl, and when you open Task Manager, you may find the Microsoft Software Protection Platform Service (sppsvc) utilizing very high CPU (ranging anywhere from 30% to 75%) for a considerably long time. You may be wondering why the Software Protection service is consuming enormous resources.
After installing the Windows 10 Feature Update 2004 (Build 19041.xx), you may be unable to send or receive emails using Windows Live Mail Version 2012. The error message may look like the following:
Unable to send or receive messages for the [name] account. An unknown error has occurred. Server: 'mail.server.com' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800C013E Protocol: POP3 Port: 110 Secure(SSL): No Server: imap.googlemail.com Username: Protocol: IMAP Port: 993 Secure(SSL): 1 Code: 800c013e Server: imap-mail.outlook.com Username: [name]@hotmail.co.uk Protocol: IMAP Port: 993 Secure(SSL): 1 Code: 800c013e
Also, when you preview an email in Windows Live Mail, you may see the following error message(s):
Message could not be displayed Windows Live Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.
Could not write this message to disk
Due to file size restrictions or other reasons, sometimes, your friends or co-workers may send videos in multiple parts. This is especially the case when you get the videos from WhatsApp, email, or other social media platforms. Once downloaded, you may want to combine the multiple clips into one single video for easier management.
We’ve seen how to do merge videos using the built-in Photos app. But this post tells you how to combine multiple video clips into one, using 3rd party freeware like Avidemux, FFmpeg, etc.Read more
Occasionally, your system may slow down to a crawl due to the PC-Doctor Module process that runs in the background. When this happens, it can take several seconds to open the Task Manager or any program.
The Task Manager may show that a process named PC-Doctor Module is occupying 100% of CPU and a very high amount of RAM. You may be wondering if PC-Doctor Module is a virus, Malware, or a PUA.Read more
Sometimes we may need to copy a file or folder path from your email or chat window to the clipboard, and open the file or folder manually. Most people open the file or folder by launching the Run dialog, pasting the path from the Clipboard, and clicking OK.
If your job involves doing this sort of task repeatedly, manually opening the Run dialog and pasting the path every time can be tedious. You can simplify this using a keyboard shortcut (hotkey) with the help of a small AutoHotKey (AHK) script.
When you open Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc, nothing may happen (except for the screen flash) if you double-click the program shortcut. If you open the Office program’s folder and double-click the executable (e.g., winword.exe, excel.exe, powerpnt.exe, outlook.exe) directly, the following error(s) occur: Windows cannot find ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE’. Make sure … Read more
Adobe Acrobat reader adds the web browser plugin using which you can view PDFs in a web browser. After installing the Windows 10 2004 update, you may be unable to print PDF files from the web browser/frame, especially when using Internet Explorer. The print dialog box doesn’t open and nothing happens if you issue the Print command from the browser.
However, you can save the PDF file locally and open/print using Adobe Acrobat Reader without any issues.
This seems to be a bug in Windows 10 2004. Until Microsoft or Adobe issues a fix for this issue, you may disable Protected Mode in Adobe Reader as a workaround.Read more
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets are commonly used to store financial data and prepare invoices. Often, you may need to convert the .xls or .xlsx files to .pdf format especially if you’re sending out invoices to your clients.
Microsoft Excel has a built-in option using which you can save your workbook, active sheet, or selected cells to a PDF file. This can be accomplished using the Save as… dropdown box.
By clicking on the More options… link, you can configure the page range, and the item to export (entire workbook, active sheet, etc) to PDF.
Another option would be to use the Microsoft Print to PDF driver in Windows 10 to output the .xls or .xlsx file to a .pdf document. For this, you’d use the Print option (instead of Save as) to print the document to PDF.
Pre-Windows 10 systems don’t have the Microsoft Print to PDF driver. As an alternative. you can use the free CutePDF Writer or Foxit PDF Printer (part of Foxit PDF Reader software.)
However, if you have hundreds of invoices (in .xls or .xlsx format) that you need to batch/bulk convert the files into PDF, the above options are not ideal and take a long time.
Fortunately, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel lets you automate the above task using scripting. This article tells you how to batch convert multiple Excel sheets into PDF files quickly.Read more
There are plenty of free online portals that help you download YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter embedded videos. These portals process the inputted video URL and make multiple resolutions of the video available for download.
However, if you want to avoid the online video download portals and wish to download YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter videos from your computer directly (without an intermediary), this post is for you.
Domain Name System (DNS) is the address book of the Internet. Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources.
Windows caches the DNS records for a considerable time. This cache can be cleared by running the command ipconfig /flushdns. Other than this, your web browser like Google Chrome maintains a separate DNS cache mechanism.
However, with Google Chrome, you can clear the internal DNS cache without closing and reopening the browser. This post tells you how to clear the internal DNS cache of the Google Chrome browser without restarting Google Chrome.