The Memory Compression feature in Windows 10 and 11 is used to optimize physical RAM utilization by compressing some of the pages in RAM. By using process memory compression, you can keep more processes in physical memory without having to page them on a disk. Required data is retrieved from RAM faster, even though additional CPU resources are spent on compressing/decompressing it. With memory compression, you can reduce RAM usage, hard disk load by reducing the amount of I/O operation, and save SSD resources.
Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft began to move classic Windows Control Panel features to the new Windows Settings panel. Each new Windows 10 build has more new options in Windows…
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SSL Error: This Site Can’t Provide a Secure Connection in Chrome, Opera & Chromium
January 18, 2023For some reason, I could not open some HTTPS websites (not all of them!) on my Windows 10 laptop. When trying to open such a website in a browser, it…
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Fix: Microsoft Outlook Search Not Working on Windows 10/11
January 14, 2022If you face any troubles when searching for email items in different Outlook versions (nothing is found, not all results are displayed, not all *.pst files used for search, not…
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Forwarding Emails to an External Address in Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online)
September 15, 2023By default, cloud-based Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) prevents automatic external email forwarding using Outlook rules or enabled mailbox forwarding.
- Group PoliciesWindows 10Windows 11Windows 7Windows Server 2019
Updating List of Trusted Root Certificates in Windows
February 27, 2023All Windows versions have a built-in feature for automatically updating root certificates from the Microsoft websites. MSFT, as part of the Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Program, maintains and publishes a…
When installing Office 2022/2019/2016 or Office 365, a user is offered to try the product for free for 30 days. After 30 days, your trial version of Office will expire…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Installing PowerShell Modules in Offline Mode (Without Internet Access)
February 28, 2022Most popular PowerShell modules are installed online from the official PowerShell Gallery (PSGallery) repository using the Install-Module command. However, you won’t be able to install a PowerShell module if your…
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Blank Sign-in Screen in Office 365 Apps (Outlook, Teams, etc.)
January 10, 2022Some Windows 10 users complain that when launching Office 365 apps (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, etc.) or Outlook 2019/2016 (with Exchange Online mailbox), a blank white sign-in screen appears when…
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Troubleshooting: Group Policy (GPO) Not Being Applied to Clients
April 19, 2023In this GPO troubleshooting guide, I’ll try to tell you about the typical reasons why a certain Group Policy Object (GPO) might not apply to an organizational unit (OU) or…