Nancy C. Muir

Despite your best efforts at using safe practices, you may find yourself with a virus or malware on your laptop. These are not fun and often slow the functionality of your computer. You can take a few proactive steps to make sure your laptop is safe by running a scan with Window Defender. To do so, just follow these easy steps.

When a new operating system such as Windows 10 is released, it has been tested for many months; however, when the product is made available for general use, the manufacturer begins to get feedback about a few problems or security gaps that it couldn’t have anticipated. For that reason, companies such as Microsoft release updates to their software, both to fix those problems and deal with new threats to computers that appear after the software release.

If you find yourself needing to use the Internet in a sticky situation and there is no Wi-Fi available, it’s possible to use a smartphone’s 3G or 4G connection to connect your laptop to the Internet. You may have to pay your phone service provider a monthly fee for this service, called tethering or personal hotspot.

It’s important to understand the potential security threats that could impact your laptop. Every day you carry around a wallet full of cash and credit cards, and you take certain measures to protect its contents. Your laptop also contains valuable items in the form of data, and it’s just as important that you protect it from thieves and damage.

Your Windows 10 laptop will make it easy for you to participate in discussions on the internet. A discussion board is a place where you can post written messages, pictures, and videos on a topic such as home improvement. Others can reply to you, and you can respond to their postings. In a variation on discussion boards, you’ll find blogs (web logs) everywhere you turn.

You can use the Sync feature to share your PC settings among Windows 10 devices so you don’t have to redo the settings on each device. If you have multiple devices, this little trick can help simplify your life. Turn on the Sync feature To sync, the Sync feature has to be turned on in settings, which it is by default.

In today’s collaborative world, it is often necessary to share data you have stored on your laptop with others. There are a few ways you can do this, but OneDrive is an option which allows you to manage all shared content in one place.You can keep your shared files in order by placing them in folders on OneDrive.

Your Windows 10 laptop comes with the Mail app. With this app, you can add multiple email accounts and manage them all from one place. Each account that you set up in Mail has its own settings. Click the Mail tile on the Start menu. From within Mail click the Settings icon in the lower-left corner, and then click Manage Accounts in the Settings pane.

The OneDrive service lets you share files from your laptop with others. Sharing files and folders online can be easier than sending them as attachments because email apps typically limit the size of attachments that you can send at one time. You can share a file or folder that you’ve already stored or created by sharing a link to the file on OneDrive.