Restarting Windows to install updates, fix a temporary annoyance or add new apps is a pain. Luckily, a simple fix exists that most don’t realize and it doesn’t require you to restart at all. Instead, we’re going to kill Windows Explorer (temporarily) and force it to reboot. Once it does, the computer things it’s been rebooted, and your updates will continue to install as normal.

1. Right click the Start menu or press CTRL + Alt + Delete.


2. Select Task Manager. <manager.png>


3. Find Windows Explorer in the list of processes


4. Right click and select Restart.

Here's how to format your hard drive in either OS

Want to use one external drive for both your Windows PC and your Mac machine? One hurdle you'll face is that, by default, these platforms use different filesystems. Windows uses NTFS while Mac OS uses HFS, and they're incompatible with each other. However, you can format the drive to work with both Windows and Mac by using the exFAT filesystem. Below are the steps to follow

In this guide, we're using exFAT instead of FAT32, another filesystem that both Windows and Mac can read and write to, because FAT32 has a maximum 4GB file size limit whereas exFAT can work with files as large as 16EB (exabytes). exFAT also performs better than FAT32.

How to format an external drive in Windows

The instructions below are for Windows 10, but other versions of Windows from Windows 7 and up can also format an external drive as exFAT for use with Mac as well.

1. Connect the drive to your Windows PC.

2. Open the Disk Management tool. You can do that by typing "disk format" or "disk management" in Windows search or going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Create and format hard disk partitions.


3. Right-click on the external drive's partition or unallocated space you want to format and choose New Simple Volume…


4. Follow the wizard to choose a volume size.


5. Assign a drive letter.


6. Choose exFAT as the file system in the Format Partition screen.


7. Give the volume a new name.


8. Click Next.

9. Click Finish.


Windows will format the drive as exFAT and you'll be able to use the drive on both Windows and Mac.

How to Use Maximum CPU Power in Windows 10

For power-hungry applications, Windows 10 has an option to max out your CPU. It’s not the ideal way to run your computer (it produces extra heat), but it should cover your needs for brief periods of high demand usage.



Here’s how it’s done.

1. Right click the Start menu and select Control Panel.


2. Click Hardware and Sound.


3. Select Power Options.


4. Find Processor power management and open the menu for Minimum processor state.


5. Change the setting for on battery to 100%.


6. Change the setting for plugged in to 100%.
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