Wired headphones or earphones malfunction if they have a loose connection. Ensure your headphones cable is correctly plugged into the headphone jack or USB port. Additionally, remove any dirt, dust, or foreign material in the audio jack. Other factors responsible for headphone failures in Windows include outdated sound drivers, incorrect volume settings, audio enhancement problems, etc. Now, let’s get to the solutions. 1. Make Your Headphones the Primary Playback Device Windows should automatically route audio to your headphones when you connect them to your computer....

The Microsoft Store app is installed on Windows 11 by default. You don’t need to do anything. The app is now one of the most used apps on PCs and helps you discover and install apps, games, movies, and even special offers – like unique movie discounts for Xbox Game Pass members. If the Microsoft Store app is not functioning normally or has been corrupted, you can attempt to reset or repair it to resolve the issue....

There are ways to configure an SQL server to allow remote connections, but you need to be careful, as allowing remote connections on a MySQL server can make your database an easy target for hackers. If you want to allow secure, remote connections to a MySQL database, here’s what you’ll need to know. Before You Begin Before you make any changes to your MySQL database, it’s important that you backup your database, especially if you’re working on a production server (a server in active use)....

By default, Windows will automatically lock your computer when you are away to prevent other people from using your desktop and accessing your files. When your computer is locked, it will show the lock screen by default. The lock screen is the screen or curtain you see when you turn on your computer before the sign in screen. It is also displayed once your computer is locked after you stepped away or press the Windows key + L....

Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells that include Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Unlike the previous shell apps in Windows, Windows Terminal comes with many features including multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU-accelerated text rendering engine, and themes customization with text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. By default, Windows Terminal will now open when certain command functions are executed in Windows 11....

With Windows Hello, one can use a PIN, facial recognition, or fingerprint to sign into their Windows devices. When you are setting up facial recognition or fingerprint to sign into Windows, you’ll also need to set up a PIN. A PIN can also be used independently to sign into Windows 11. If you have set up a PIN and you wish to change it to something else, you can do that easily from the Windows Settings app....

An interrupt request line, or IRQ, is a numbered hardware line over which a device can interrupt the normal flow of data to the processor, allowing the device to function. Windows Vista and 7 lets you prioritize one or more IRQs (which translate to one or more hardware devices), potentially improving the performance of those devices. Below are basic registry editing tips that you can use to set IRQ priorities....

The good news is that creating an XML sitemap is easier than understanding exactly what it is. And understanding XML sitemaps is fairly simple too. You can do this. What Is An XML Sitemap? Let’s cover the XML part first. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It’s not exactly a programming language. It’s a flexible way to tell web browsers and other programs about the data an XML document carries....

Windows 11 comes with a feature called Activity history. It helps keep track of the things you do on your computer, such as the apps and services you use, the files you open, the websites you browse, etc. Your activity history is stored locally on your device for the apps and services you use and the website you visit. Also, if you use a Microsoft account to log in to your devices, your activity history is shared across other devices to bring you a single experience and provide you the ability to continue using the same activity history everywhere....

There’s no special button needed to disable or turn off the touchscreen on Windows 11, as it is built directly into the operating system. However, you can turn off or stop the touchscreen functionality on your computer by disabling the device from the Device Manager in Windows 11. Whether you’re using Microsoft Surface or another Windows 11 computer with a touchscreen, the steps below should work. Once the touch screen is disabled, your touchscreen will not turn back on unless you decide to go back into the Device Manager and re-enable it to bring back the touchscreen functionality....

Windows allows you to install a preferred language for Windows features like Settings and File Explorer. With your preferred language, a default keyboard layout for the language will be installed as well. When you have more than one language and keyboard layout installed, Windows will add a language bar on the right of the taskbar and the sign-in screen by default. Users can then use the language bar to easily switch between languages and keyboard layouts....

When your Windows device has a camera, you will be able to make Teams video calls, record videos, and take pictures. Depending on the camera’s capabilities and version of Windows 11, some or all the following controls may be available to you, including rotation, background effects, auto framing, and more. By default, Windows will identify and install all related drivers that make the camera work. If additional drivers are needed, you will be prompted to install them....

Microsoft Sticky Notes app is a simple way to quickly create post-it-like notes and save them for later. You can create a quick reminder and stick it on your desktop that can easily be discarded after use. You can delete a sticky note in three ways. Note deletion is permanent. It cannot be undone. You can minimize the chance of deleting notes by mistake simply by turning on the note deletion warning....

If you have a hung or runaway app’s process that is impacting system performance, you can use Windows Task Manager to kill or end the app’s process. Windows Task Manager is a tool for monitoring and managing a system’s apps and processes. If you find yourself in situations where an application is not responding and is in a frozen state, you can use the Task Manager to kill the runaway process slowing down your PC....

That’s largely thanks to the constant improvements that have been made to the original release. At the time of writing, Bluetooth 5.1 has been announced. Each version brings with it new features and improvements. All versions are also backwards compatible, but in general you’ll be limited to the features supported by the lowest BT version hardware in use. In other words, if that fancy new BT mouse supports hyper-efficient power use, but your laptop’s BT version does not, you’re paying for a feature you can’t use....

That typically happens when your computer fails to detect an audio device due to corrupt, outdated, or incompatible audio drivers. To make things worse, you will experience no sound at all until you resolve the issue. If restarting your computer doesn’t do anything, then the troubleshooting tips that follow should help you fix “No Audio Output Device is installed” in Windows 10. Run Audio Troubleshooter Windows 10 comes with a built-in audio troubleshooter that can automatically detect and fix audio-related issues on your computer....

Instead of displaying the data you were trying to copy, Excel shows the message “Retrieving Data. Wait a Few Seconds.” But this message doesn’t open in a new dialog box but is displayed inside Excel itself. Your work will come to a halt, but don’t worry. This error is easy to solve in only a few seconds. What is “Retrieving Data. Wait a Few Seconds” Error in Excel? The error might seem to happen due to some internal Microsoft Excel bug or a problem with your operating system, but this is not true....

Thankfully, most users can resolve a black screen issue in Chrome by trying some common troubleshooting steps. Even simple fixes, like resizing your browser window, can temporarily fix the problem. But to fix this issue for good, you’ll need to follow the steps below. What Causes a Google Chrome Black Screen? A black screen in Chrome is usually a sign of an unusual graphics display error. For some reason, your Chrome browser interface isn’t rendering on your screen properly....

What Is Game “Stutter” on Windows 10? One of the difficulties is that users describe different issues as “stutter,” even if entirely different things cause them. Stuttering can be a type of rhythmic hitching while playing your game, it can be random intermittent freezes, or it could be a frame rate that’s swinging up and down in a lurching fashion. Turn Off the Wallpaper Slideshow We found this fix after weeks of frustration with a Windows installation that would freeze and stutter every few minutes....

In this guide, I will list a number of potential fixes for why your SSD may be slowing down on boot up. These issues should fix boot up times and in some cases they may improve general performance too. As it can be hard to pinpoint your problem, we will be offering our tips in a simple order – from the easiest to the most complicated. Hopefully, your SSD will be up and running again at full speed in no time....