Nancy C. Muir

Windows 7 is designed for networking and working with the internet, so when your network connection isn’t working, it can be particularly frustrating. Fortunately, Windows 7 comes with a built-in troubleshooter that you can use to repair a broken network connection. Choose Start→Control Panel→Network and Internet.

Windows 10 allows you to create multiple user accounts; each account saves certain settings and allows you to control files and folders separately. Below are the procedures that you can follow to get a new user account set up on your new computer. You must have administrator status to create new users. When you first set up Windows 10, the first user created will automatically be an administrator account.

The Microsoft Edge browser has a number of helpful features you can take advantage of to keep track of useful websites, keep websites from tracking your activity, and make notes on web pages. See where you've been lately If you went to a site recently and want to return there but can't remember the name, you might check your browsing history in Microsoft Edge's Hub to find it.

If there's a site you intend to revisit, you may want to save it to Microsoft Edge's Favorites list in the Hub so you can easily go there again.To use this feature: Open Microsoft Edge from the desktop, enter the URL of a website that you want to add to your Favorites list, and then press Enter. Click the Add to Favorites or Reading List button on the address bar.

The two tricks to downloading files while staying safe from malware are to only download from sites you trust and to never download file attachments on emails that you aren't completely sure are safe.The most dangerous files to download are executable files that sport an .exe extension at the end of the filename.

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.

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.

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.