How to Kill or Close All Running Programs in Windows Quickly Looking for a free Windows utility that you can use toquickly close all programs currently running in Windows?This can be quite useful, for example, when you have to shutdown all running programs before installing a new application. I find that quite annoying because I usually have 10 different apps running and I have to manually close them one by one and then re-open them once I’ve installed my program....

How to Make a Simple Graph or Chart in Excel Excel is a powerful tool that you can use to create charts and graphs for small or large amounts of data. In this Excel tutorial, I’ll show you how to take a small set of data and create a simple bar graph, along with the options you have to customize the graph. Once you have the basics down, you can use those same techniques on larger sets of data....

How to Forcefully Clear the Print Queue in Windows Have you ever run into the situation where you try to print something and nothing happens? You wait for it to print, but the job doesn’t go through? There are a ton of reasons why a print job may not actually print, but one of the common causes is that the printer queue has a stuck print job. This can happen for a number of reasons....

How to Track When Someone Accesses a Folder on Your Computer There’s a nice little feature built into Windows that allows you to track when someone views, edits, or deletes something inside of a specified folder. So if there’s a folder or file that you want to know who is accessing, then this is the built-in method without having to use third-party software. This feature is actually part of a Windows security feature calledGroup Policy, which is used by most IT Professionals who manage computers in the corporate network via servers, however, it can also be used locally on a PC without any servers....

Fix “This device can’t use a Trusted Platform Module” When Enabling BitLocker We’ll also explain what the heck it means I recently tried to enable BitLocker on an old Windows 10 PC at home and got an error message that I found would be extremely cryptic to anyone who isn’t a computer geek. Here was the message: This device can’t use a Trusted Platform Module. Your administrator must select the “Allow BitLocker without a compatible TPM” option in the “Require additional authentication at startup” policy for OS volumes....