Chris has written for The New York Timesand Reader’s Digest, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami’s NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times—and that’s just here at How-To Geek. If you choose to seek out the update on your PC at Windows 11’s release, you’re an early adopter.

It is free and open-source software that enables users to read, manage, organize, as well as download eBooks on Windows 11/10 PC. It offers a dedicated feature to download eBooks from multiple eBook stores and sources. If you’ve got one of the newer Kindle devices, you’ve got the ability to read PDF files built right in—very convenient, but how does it work?

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There is various screen capture software online for you to choose. But I don’t give a damn to the screen capture software. You can take a screen shot and capture an exact image of what’s on the screen with Microsoft Windows. In the Notifications area, click the red TechSmith Snagit icon to open the Capture window on the screen.

• The Current Status column will show a progress indicator with the percentages completed.
• Once you use the keyboard shortcut (Windows + Shift + S), the screen will darken and you will see a small toolbar at the top of your screen.
• It remains free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects.
• Click the checkbox to indicate that you accept the updated terms and then click Accept to continue.

Defragmentation on Windows 10 normally takes between 1 and 10 hours. Modern Windows 10 devices come with SSD drives that do not require defragmentation. However, defragmentation is required in older Windows 10 devices with a traditional hard drive or HDD to work efficiently. Defragmentation using cmd 1Type “cmd” in the search bar and by right-clicking on the command prompt run it as administrator. Defragmentation will start as scheduled, but it will never end on server SKUs and disk performance will degrade while defragmentation is running. Hi @Vadim, Scott’s and yours were both very interesting posts.

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From the context menu, press the Download button. Press the Download option to download the selected eBook. He’s been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people.

Pick the drive you’d like to defrag and select Optimize. Driversol Drivers If not, please input query in the search box below. Then select Defragment More Info and Optimize Drives from the list of options. Click the Start button in the bottom-left corner of your screen and type the word defrag. Tech Advisor contributor Martyn has been involved with tech ever since the arrival of his ZX Spectrum back in the early 80s. He covers iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, writing tutorials, buying guides and reviews.

It required an additive to keep those cars running. Similarly, you can’t keep Windows 10 running with a little extra care. Apparently people will take their stimulus money and buy brand new Windows 11 computers. But really, tech companies have worked for decades to condition consumers to buy the next new thing, just because.

Like taking a screenshot of the entire screen, there are also hotkey combinations available for capturing part of the screen. This method seems similar to using the Snipping Tool. However, as this method is simplified, you cannot use some of the advanced functions of the Snipping Tool, such as the free-form snip mode and the annotators. What you captured using this tool can be saved as an image or in HTML format.