Windows 11 also comes with an On-Screen Keyboard (OSK) or Touch keyboard that can be used instead of a physical keyboard. These virtual keyboards are useful on Windows touchscreen devices and those in tablet mode. If you often use the built-in Touch keyboard and the standard size is a bit too small for your liking, you can resize it and make it bigger, and the steps below will show you how to do that....

If the primary hard drive on your computer is running low on storage space, you can change or move the SoftwareDistribution folder to another disk that has larger partitions with more free space. Windows do a good job managing system storage using its Storage Sense feature and will often take care of removing update files at some point after they’ve been installed, but if you’re extremely low on space, major updates may fail to install due to space limitations....

sFTP or Secure File Transfer Protocol is a secure file transfer protocol that runs on top of SSH. It is used to access, manage, and transfer files over an encrypted SSH transport session. If you want to provide file access via FTP, you should make sure to use sFTP instead for better security. You’ll also need to create a user account to access and manage the files on the sFTP host....

Windows has a new feature called Storage Spaces that group multiple disk drives together to create a storage pool, and then use capacity from the pool to create a virtual drive. The virtual drive can be used to create new partitions which help to protect data from storage failures. Instead of your data being stored on a single drive, it is spread across multiple drives making it fault-tolerant. Below is how to create volumes or virtual drives from Storage Pool with Storage Spaces to protect your data when you have multiple hard disk drives on your Windows machine....

When you click on Quick Settings, a pop-out window will appear with commonly used settings and apps like Volume, Brightness, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, Rotation lock, Battery saver, Accessibility, Night light, Mobile hotspot, Nearby sharing, Cast and more. Windows also allow you to add and remove items on the Quick Settings menu simply by editing it. If you want, you can disable users from editing the Quick Settings menu in Windows 11....

Like any modern operating system, Windows 11 allows you to use external devices like USB flash drives, CDs/DVDs, and other removable devices. However, if you don’t follow the best practice of safely removing or ejecting devices before unplugging, you may corrupt or destroy data on the device that you may never recover. Also, if you simply unplug a device and not doing it safely, you run the risk of unplugging it while an application is still using it, which may also cause the application to end abruptly and may introduce performance issues....

Windows 11 comes with a feature known as HD Color which shows high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) content when available. If your device supports it, you’ll experience more vibrant pictures for HDR games, videos, and apps using Windows 11. When HDR is enabled and set to auto, Windows will decide how or when to use it based on different scenarios. This is especially useful in game mode or when playing high graphics intense games....

The Microsoft Edge browser is the default browser in Windows 11. Users are allowed to switch to their preferred or favorite browser anytime. Edge is based on Chromium, similar to Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers today. By default, the forward button will auto appears in the toolbar when it’s possible to go forward. You may have noticed that the forward button doesn’t show all the time when you need it....

The default web browser in Windows 11 is Microsoft Edge. It is built on the same codebase as Google Chrome and is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, Linux, and macOS. By design, Microsoft Edge will automatically check for and install updates to the latest version. You can also manually check for updates anytime. However, the Microsoft Edge browser will only check for updates on a network connection that is not metered....

With voice typing, you can enter text on your PC by speaking. Voice typing uses online speech recognition, which is powered by Azure Speech services. Voice typing allows users to enter text on their PC by speaking into a microphone. Use voice typing commands to quickly edit text by saying things like “delete that” or “select that“. When you enable voice typing, you can use its launcher to quickly access voice typing when your cursor is in a text box or text editor....

Files and settings in each profile are private to that particular user. Users can not view the profile of another user unless that user is an administrator or a member of the administrator’s group. Each user will have a profile folder in the Users folder on the Windows system drive Local Disk (C:). In the User folder, each account will have a profile folder name which is the same name as the account name....

TikTok has millions of active users who are happy to share their unique, creative, and original short videos. Despite the strict competition to catch attention from other users, TikTok offers a great opportunity to go viral and get more followers. That becomes the question, how to go viral on TikTok? While some users choose to upload controversial videos to go viral, you can opt a more elegant way to gain attention....

Windows has multiple sleep or hibernation modes: A Hybrid sleep is a type of sleep state that combines sleep and hibernation. A Modern Standby also enables an instant On and Off user experience similar to mobile devices while also connected to networks in low power idle mode. Before your PC goes into hibernation, Windows saves your desktop session, including work, open documents, and programs to the hiberfile (C:\hiberfil.sys) on your hard drive before turning off the computer....

The Windows Security app is a built-in application that comes with Windows 11. It provides a centralized dashboard to see what’s happening with the security and health of your device and take any actions needed. The app has many sections that allow you to quickly see the status of your virus and threat protection, firewall and network security, device security controls, and more. This section provides information and settings for antivirus protection from Microsoft Defender Antivirus and third-party AV products....

This post describes how to use Apache2 with Pound as a proxy server. To install and configure Pound to be a proxy server for Apache2, then the steps below are a good starting point. Pound is an open-source HTTP accelerator. It is usually configured to sit in front of web servers to quickly serve HTTP/HTTPS requests. Pound can also be used as a load balancer to distribute loads across multiple web servers....

b2evolution is a refreshingly simple open-source content management (CMS) that has everything you need to build websites for sharing and interacting with your community. This cm is built on the LAMP or LEMP stack. All you need is in a single package. just install it and start using it. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, b2evolution CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its minimalist and modern user and admin interface....

Flarum is a new, next-generation open-source forum software based on PHP. It’s simple to set up and use and makes online discussions fun. Individuals and webmasters can use Flarum to set up communities in minutes to stay in touch with groups of people or ideas. If you’re looking for a feature-rich, efficient and free community forum platform, then you may want to consider Flarum. How to install Flarum on Ubuntu Linux with Apache support As mentioned above, Flarum is a new, next-generation open-source forum software based on PHP....

The VirtualBox guest additions package enhances the virtual guest machine and improves the management of the machine. When you install a new operating system on a VirtualBox virtual machine, your first task should always be to install its guest additions software, and the steps below show you how to do that. The tool provides tight integration between the host and virtual machine operating systems; enables improvement to the VM graphics performance, shared folder between the host and guest machines, copying and pasting of text, images, and files between the host and guest machine as well as mouse improvement....

One popular alternative to PHP of the LAMP stack is HHVM. HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs and applications written in PHP. You can use HHVM in place of PHP of the LAMP stack to achieve superior performance. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install HHVM on Ubuntu systems to run WordPress and other content management systems based on PHP....

It is a real alternative to Microsoft Office. Although most people don’t use email clients on Linux machines, this one is a great program to have when using Ubuntu or other supported Linux desktops. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install the Hiri email client on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 desktops. You get to try Hiri for 7 days. and if you need it, purchase a license to use it....