Windows 10

This category contains posts about Microsoft’s latest Operating System – Windows 10.Windows 10’s always been interesting, as every new major update will usually include additional features.

How to Install CAB and MSU Updates from Windows Update Catalog

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Installing updates via Windows Update can be problematic sometimes. For example, downloads may stall at a specific stage due to problems with the Windows Update server or the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that hosts the update in your region. It could also be possible that the Windows Update or BITS Services configuration on the local computer is at fault.Read more

Make Action Center Always Remain Open on the Screen in Windows 10

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The Windows 10 Action Center displays app & system notifications and provides quick actions buttons so that users can get to the commonly used settings pages easily.

By default, the Windows 10 Action Center panel closes automatically once it loses the active window focus — when the user clicks a program window or anywhere else. Here is a registry hack which makes the Action Center panel always remain on the screen until you close it manually.Read more

Change Registry Editor Font Face in Windows 10 Creators Update

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Registry Editor in Windows 10 Redstone 2 Preview build 14942 has got an Address bar as we saw earlier. The Redstone 2 Preview build introduces another minor feature addition to the Registry Editor. You can change the default Registry Editor font, without having to change the global font settings – that is, without affecting other areas of the Windows Shell.Read more

Replace Settings with Control Panel in Win+X Menu in Windows 10 Build 14942

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Starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14942, the Win+X menu items (the menu which appears when you right-click on Start) which were pointing to the classic Control Panel applets are now directing to corresponding pages in the modern Settings app. Also, the entry “Control Panel” is now replaced by “Settings” in the Group 2 section of the Win+X menu.Read more

Open Cortana Web Search Results in Google and Default Browser

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Clicking on a web search result in Cortana would always launch Microsoft Edge regardless of your default browser. However, you can configure Cortana web search links to open with your default web browser. Additionally, you can automatically redirect the search query to Google search instead of Bing.

In April 2018, Microsoft announced that Edge would be the browser that would launch when searching from Cortana, no matter what your default web browser or https protocol association setting is.

While the user interface doesn’t have an option to change the search engine or browser, there is still a way to make Cortana search using Google instead of Bing, using the new microsoft-edge: URL protocol.Read more