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Find Which Program is Using Your Webcam Currently
Does your webcam indicator LED get turned on automatically without you doing anything? Are you’re worried if you’re being spied upon by some malware? Or, are you seeing the error “Your webcam is currently being used by another application” when using Skype or other messaging application?
The built-in Camera app may throw the error 0xa00f4243 saying
Close other apps
It looks like another app is using the camera already.
If you need it, here’s the error code:
0xA00F4243<CameraReservedByAnotherApp> (0xC00D3704)
Here is a neat way to find which program is using your webcam or microphone.
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Pin Control Panel to Taskbar to Access Classic Applets Quickly
Windows 10 Settings page is ought to replace the classic Control Panel entirely in the near future. But it hasn’t happened yet, and some pages in the Settings app still link to the classic Control Panel applets. That will be the case till Microsoft entirely ports Control Panel applets to the modern Settings app.Read more
How to Set Ethernet (LAN) Connection as Metered in Windows 10
Windows 10 allows you to set a Wifi connection as a “Metered” connection, but no such GUI option existed for Ethernet (LAN) networks. In Windows 8 and Windows 10 v1607 and earlier, you needed to apply a registry edit to set Ethernet or LAN connection as metered. Thankfully, with Windows 10 Creators Update, it’s a built-in option that can be configured using the Settings UI — no registry edit required.Read more
Change Wi-Fi Network Connection Priority in Windows 11/10
Most of us use more than one Wi-Fi network connection so that if one fails, the 2nd one is used as a fallback. With multiple Wi-Fi network sources, there comes the issue of connection priority.Read more
New Share UI in Windows 10 – How to Enable it?
Windows 10 Creators Update will have a new Share UI which Microsoft revealed in October.
If you’re using Insider Preview Build 14972, you can enable the new Share UI which replaces the Share panel.Read more
Start Disk Cleanup With All Checkbox Options Enabled by Default
When you open the Disk Cleanup tool, most if not all of the cleanup options are unchecked by default. Disk Cleanup doesn’t remember the options you enabled the last time when you used it.Read more
Pin a Website Shortcut to the Windows 10 Start Menu
If you’ve been using desktop shortcuts to open your favorite websites, you can instead pin those websites to the Windows 10 Start menu to make your desktop clutter-free.
Moreover, pinning websites to the Start screen helps you get to those sites quickly especially when your Windows 10 device is in Tablet mode, where the Start screen occupies the full screen, covering your desktop. You can pin website shortcuts to the Windows 10 Start screen using Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Firefox.Read more
Automatically Clear Temp Files Using Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense or Batch file
The TEMP directory (%temp%) gets bloated over time as applications store data over there and don’t always remove the files and folders they created. And, software installers extract the contents of the setup packages to the %temp% folder and fail to do the cleanup act when the installation is complete.Read more
How Windows Defender “Block at First Sight” Cloud Protection Feature works?
Windows Defender or the Microsoft anti-malware platform protects home computers, servers and online services such as Office 365. With the wealth of threat intelligence and telemetry data, Defender’s cloud backend is an astounding malware protection service.Read more