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There are lots of useful tips and tweaks you can perform on your daily windows machine, and here are my top 17 windows settings Every Pro should change now.

Creating a mapped network drive allows you to quickly access files and folders on a shared network as if they were on your local machine. Fortunately, Windows 10 lets you map network drives in just a few simple steps.

Sometimes you need to know the physical hardware address, or MAC address (short for “Media Access Control”), of your network adapter on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. Here are several ways to find it.

Need a Wi-Fi password? Maybe youre visiting a friends house, but theyre busy. Or your laptop is connected, but your phone is not. There are ways to wirelessly share passwords between devices, but if thats not an option, heres how to grab the Wi-Fi password from your already-connected devices. How to See Wi-Fi Password in Windows Windows makes this easy, as long as youre currently connected to the network in question. Open the Start menu and search for Network Status, then click the Change Ada...

May 5, 2021 13:04 EDT No one on this planet will ever say that they enjoy a slow internet. It reduces your productivity, it causes problems in important meetings, online classes can become harder than they have to be, and so on. The list of issues that can happen due to a slow connection is endless. But no need to worry because there are ways to increase your internet upload and download speeds in Windows 10. 5 Ways To Increase Upload And Download Speeds In Windows 10 There are essentially...

Google Home app gets new settings to help you customize Feed tab [Hindustan Times, New Delhi] Apr. 3—Google has been making swift changes to the Google Home app. Last month, reports hinted towards the company working on a feature that would enable users to give restricted access to their smart home devices. Now, a new report says that will make it easier for users to customise the Feed tab in the app. 9To5 Google reports that Google has started rolling out a new setting in its Google Home app...

Mark Hachman / IDG If you then click the  Data  usage button, Windows will break down the data usage by app, across the data connection. The drop-down menu should adjust this by the various networking options available, but I had to disconnect again to see my Wi-Fi data usage per app.) You can also click the  Enter limit button under the  Data limit heading to enter a data limit, to prevent yourself from being charged. But this is a data limit only for this PC, and therefore not that useful...

Source: Windows Central Whether you have a gaming PC or not, one of the best things about a cloud gaming service, such as NVIDIA GeForce Now, is that you dont need to spend time optimizing in-game settings. NVIDIA does all the hard work for you when it comes to graphics settings to make sure your games look amazing whatever youre playing them on. But to make sure you have the best experience possible you should take a few minutes to optimize your GeForce Now settings. By default, the service wi...