Determine the Number of Cores in Your CPU We’ll explain why this is important With the latest releases of processors from Intel, it’s a certainty that most consumer desktops will be running machines with 2 cores, 4 cores and even 6 cores very soon. With Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake on the horizon, a quad-core consumer PC is going to be very affordable. So how many cores do you have on your current machine?...

How to Remove Text from Icons on the Windows Taskbar Great for a practical joke on a coworker If yourWindows taskbardisplays both text and icons for open programs instead of icons only, it’s because you or someone else with access to your account has changed the taskbar settings. Fortunately, it’s easy to remove the text from icons in the Windows taskbar and conserve space. Remove Icons from the Taskbar To stopWindows 11 or 10from displaying text for open programs on the Windows taskbar, you must:...

How to Install 64-bit Office via Office 365 Because why install in 32-bit? Office 365 Personal, Home or Business products are great ways to access all of Microsoft’s Office products on your desktop, tablet or mobile phone. It’s way better than having to buy each version of Office individually and enter a product key, like we used to have to do before. With Office 365, you get free updates whenever a new version is released and it’s really easy to move your copy of Office from one computer to another....

Fix Scheduled Task Won’t Run for .BAT File We’ll walk you thru all the steps and settings If you have a .BAT file and you’re trying to get it to run automatically using Task Scheduler in Windows, you might have run into the issue where it simply doesn’t run unless you manually run the task. I created a batch file that deletes everything inside a temp folder whenever the computer starts up....

Fix Error 10016 in Windows Event Viewer It’s fun and you will learn a lot Being a big tech geek, I hate when my Windows machine isn’t working flawlessly. I figure if I can’t get my computer working perfectly, then what kind of tech person am I? Obviously, trying to get everything to work perfectly means spending a lot of time fixing issues that probably don’t cause any major issues with my system....