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Hold on there! Let’s not get hasty and feel determined to get rid of a legitimate Windows process; it could have fatal consequences. There are several Windows processes running in the background with which we are unfamiliar, such as yourphone.exe and lockapp.exe. In this post, we are going to discuss the ctfmon.exe process which you so often see in your system’s Task Manager. What is the ctfmon.exe Process? Ctfmon.exe is a legitimate Windows process....

First of all the basic difference: YouTube.com is the top-level domain name (TLD). This is the original domain name for the YouTube service. YouTu.be is a country code TLD (aka ccTLD). The .be domain name have been assigned to the country of Belgium. .com, .org, .net are the most common domain names. As .com signifies a domain name for a commercial entity, the YouTube founders originally chose YouTube.com for their video sharing service....

Additionally, Firefox version 102.11 Extended Support Release (ESR) is now also available if you do not want to frequently upgrade the browser version. This update significantly improves the Picture-in-Picture mode and has finally made it useful. Now, the PIP mode allows you to control the video playback. Additionally, Firefox version 113 now also includes a secure password generator that includes special characters. Some other improvements have also been made. Moreover, this update also addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, out of which 5 are deemed of high importance....

Since it is a preview version, it is only meant for testing, so that the public is ready for any changes that may impact their work before the final version is released. That being said, we strongly recommend you do not install it in any live/production environment. If you already have a stable version of Windows PowerShell running on your machine, installing the preview version will not affect it, and both could run simultaneously....

This information can be found in each and every file or folder, regardless of the type of file, which means that each document, photo, video, zipped file, and folder carries this information with them wherever they are transferred. Those who are interested in knowing this information about a particular item only need to examine its properties or metadata. The date modified, the date created, and date accessed are referred to as timestamps....

If you are running out of storage space in C drive, this is the article for you. You can move that huge .ost files from your c drive to any other location of your choosing that has sufficient space to hold them. All while not having to re-sync each email over the internet, which can be a pain in the neck. What is an OST file An Offline Storage File (OST file), as the name implies, is a locally-stored file that contains the data which has been synchronized from the Exchange server....

If you are experiencing such a problem, it is likely that the app has been corrupted and needs to be reinstalled. Occasionally, a simple uninstall and then a re-install does the trick. But it doesn’t always work and fix the issue. This is because the SupportAssistant leaves behind certain files and directories when it is uninstalled, and causes issues with the new installation. In this article, we are going to show you the steps and techniques you need to use to completely uninstall the SupportAssistant app from your Windows computer....

A similar model has also been adopted for the Windows 11 operating system. This causes a lot of network traffic and bandwidth consumption for Microsoft servers. This is where the Windows feature called “Delivery Optimization” comes into play, also known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) updates, which proves to be beneficial for Microsoft, but costs the end-user their internet bandwidth, resulting in slow internet speeds. You can disable this feature on your Windows 11/10 computer to save network bandwidth and increase internet speed....

Sandbox allows you to run applications in a workspace that is not a part of the original operating system, and takes a temporary space of about 100 MB. However, this feature was only introduced for Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise editions. By default, this feature is not applicable to Windows 10 Home Edition. Here, we will be discussing how we may enable the Windows Sandbox in the Home Edition. This would allow any Home Edition user to create a duplicate workspace to test any malicious software or application without risking their actual host operating system....

That said, there have been reports that the “Switch User” option has been missing for some Windows users, even when they have multiple accounts on their system. Some have even reported that the option is only visible when all accounts are explicitly logged out. That shouldn’t be the case. In this article, we show you how to fix this error on a Windows computer without having to repair or reinstall your operating system....

For either a wired or a wireless mouse, there is no definitive cause for the lag issue you may experience on Windows computers, since there can be multiple reasons. A lagging mouse can become extremely annoying, especially when you are gaming, performing a time-critical task, or having to click multiple times, but the computer just won’t register the click the first time. Today we are going about the potential causes of a lagging mouse and how you can fix them....

Windows is supposed to assign drive letters to all internal and external storage devices. Storage partition cannot be detected by the system without an assigned letter. However, the OS sometimes goes haywire and requires some extra help getting things back on track. This includes the normal functioning of certain services and functions of the Windows architecture, which needs to be redone to bring the operating system back to its normal state....

All these and even more curious questions strike a number of people and they simply feel confused about the what, where and how of Internet. Let’s get hold of some interesting trivia about Internet. These facts will answer some of your questions about the network of networks. (by the way, I have earlier published such trivia and facts information about YouTube, Facebook and Google as well)… Here we go about Internet trivia:...

But what is DNS anyway? Well, in simple words, a DNS server is a machine that translates domain names to the IP addresses. On the Internet all the computers are identified by IP addresses —so there is no computer named as techwelkin.com on the Internet. Instead, techwelkin.com has an IP address. But for humans IP addresses are difficult to remember. So, a domain name system has been devised in which websites are known by domain names; and DNS servers are the machines that do the conversion of domain name to a corresponding IP address....

While finding the lost product key in Windows 10 can be useful, sometimes it poses a threat for your key to be stolen and used somewhere else. This can be the case, especially when you are using an enterprise license where only one key can be activated multiple times. This includes licenses from Microsoft Action Pack and MSDN subscriptions. Let’s go through the process of removing the Windows 10 product key from the registry, so it can’t be retrieved using any product key finder software....

Exploit Guard, as the name suggests, prevents your computer from being exploited by online threats and malware. Several components make up the Exploit Guard, but today we will be discussing “Network Protection,” which can be used to intimate a user when they are accessing a malicious or untrusted site/domain using a web browser or blocking it completely. If you want your computer to be safe and do not want anyone who uses your computer to infect it with a virus, dive deep into the details and the configurations needed to configure Exploit Guard Network Protection....

Before we begin, let’s clarify that the audience retention is the percentage of a video people watch. If they watch your video from beginning all through the end, audience retention will be 100%. If they leave the video after watching half of it — retention would be 50%. Audience retention is one of the measures used by YouTube to rank videos in search. This measure also plays a huge role when YouTube algorithm decides whether or not to suggests your videos to the viewers....

Here is the screen that you get when WhatsApp detects an inaccuracy in your phone’s date and time. Most of the time, however, this error is just because of a confusing date difference. There becomes a clash between the phone date and what WhatsApp sees as date. The first thing that you should do is what WhatsApp suggests you to do. Tap of the Adjust date button and see if the date and time of your phone are really out of sync....

Installing this update will improve the screen reader’s performance (such as Narrator) as Windows will now automatically load the corresponding Braille drivers when switching between Narrator and third-party screen readers. Moreover, the option to access the Task Manager has also been added to the taskbar’s context menu. The users who landed in the group receiving the update 22623 will have the new features enabled by default, while the features in the 22621 update will be disabled....

Sometimes WordPress developers face an odd problem of the post excerpt text coming closed inside a P (paragraph) tag. WordPress provides the_excerpt(); function to display excerpt of a post or a page. But when developers use this function, they notice that the output text is automatically being wrapped inside a tag. In most cases this does not create any problem but in some instances where you’re trying to do a specific thing with the excerpt text —this unwanted extra paragraph tag turns out to be a nuisance....