Battery Health Status Report in Windows (8,8.1 and 10)
Anyone who routinely uses a laptop knows that the batteries in them don’t last forever. This is an inherent part of the Lithium-ion batteries used in much of today’s tech. It can therefore be helpful to get a better understanding of the current health of the battery – especially if you’re selling, or have just
Removing the Search / Cortana box on the Task Bar in Windows 10
When you first upgrade to Windows 10, your Task Bar will include two new components – the search box (or Cortana if you’ve enabled this) and the Task View button next to it. If, like me, you find it a little obtrusive, the good news is that it’s very easy to remove or minimise these
Alternatives to Outlook for your Personal Mail
You may get the impression from some of my posts, such as this one, that I like to be well connected, and ‘always on’. That’s true, to a point. I think these days, being able to access your corporate mail whenever & wherever is being seen as increasingly useful, and often a necessary part
Boot to the Desktop with Windows 8.1
As mentioned in my previous post, I’m playing around with the Windows 8.1 Preview. One of the other minor, yet significant, changes made, is the ability to boot directly to the desktop, rather than to the Start Screen we previously had to go through. The location of this option isn’t obvious though, but easy enough
Showing the Desktop in Windows 7 & 8
Another simple one today In Windows XP (whilst that may sound like ‘a long time ago’, there are still a lot of corporations using, or not long moved away from, XP), you will have likely had a little icon in your Quick Launch which, when clicked, would minimize all your applications to show you your
Take Better Screen Shots in Office
Nice & easy one today, but useful none the less. Screenshots are a useful way of sharing something on our screens, especially with the plethora of different systems that different parts of the business may use that you won’t all have access to. We all know how to take a screen shot – and we
Restore Deleted Files & Folders – The Easy Way!
the Topic for this post is what started System Secrets – it’s based on the first mailing I sent out as Issue 1 of System Secrets in January 2011. It’s focus was very much our internal file-share system, but have re-worked parts of it to make it more relevant to a wider audience, but still still
Add a Time Zone to Windows
Here at Tesco, we operate it many different countries, and often need to communicate with colleagues from around the world. For anyone doing something similar to this, it’s always helpful to know the time zones in both areas. There are a few approaches we can take with this. Method 1 Right Click the time on
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