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Starting with Windows 10 Version 1809, the option to open Device Manager as admin is no longer available via the Start Menu. As this was the preferred method for most users, a lot of users are not sure how torun it as an adminanymore. If you launch Device Manager without admin privileges, you’re able to view the settings, but you won’t be allowed to make any changes. You can resolve this issue by using any of the methods listed in the article below to open Device Manager as admin....

Sometimes the UI for yourWindows 11system just needs a fresh start. You might have changed a setting in the registry that affects the UI –extending the Windows context menu, for example – and you need to restart Windows Explorer to see the change. Or maybe something has gone haywire in your system and the taskbar has disappeared and you need it back. Again, restarting Windows Explorer is the way to solve the problem with the only other alternative being a complete reboot....

GeForce Experience comes with several advanced features like application optimization, screen capture/recording, automatic display driver update, battery optimization, and many more. Although GeForce Experience offers a simple user interface, some might have issues using ShadowPlay, especially if you are new to the application. You just need topress Alt + F9 to start or stop recording your gameplay using NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay. But this is the default shortcut key and will only work if you have configured the right GeForce Experience Settings....

For the first time, Intel has detailed its new patch, which recently started distributing via the 0x129 microcode patch released by its OEM/ODM partners. This update will address the issue of incorrect voltage requests made by the processor, which causes it to ask for elevated voltage. Intel says this results in long-term damage to the affected chips,manifestingas instability and crashing errors. The patch reins in voltage, instituting a hard 1.55V limit as the company investigates potential mitigations for a related issue — a minimum voltage shift condition that can occur on already-impacted processors....

Intel has published detailed plans for its multi-billionsite near Magdeburg, Germanythat will house two fabs initially and will be able to host up to six additional modules in the future. The plans discovered byHardwareLuxxandHeise.dereveal two large three-story buildings that will accommodate some of the world’s most advanced wafer fab tools and will produce some of the most sophisticated chips ever designed. The fabs are now projected to come online in late 2027, which points to very particular process technologies —Intel’s 14A (1....

Michelle Johnston Holthaus, an interim co-CEO of Intel, claims that a large percentage of Qualcomm-powered machines are being returned to retailers. Johnston Holthaus claims that the returns are the retailers' number one concern. “I mean, if you look at the return rate for Arm PCs, you go talk to any retailer, their number one concern is ‘I get a large percentage of these back,’ because you go to set them up and the things that we just expect do not work, right,” said Johnston Holthaus at the Barclays 22nd Annual Global Technology Conference....

According toJon Peddie Research, shipment of discrete graphics cards for desktop PCs increased to 9.5 million units in the second quarter of 2024. However, only Nvidia benefited from the higher demand for standalone GPUs for desktops as it continued to dominate the market. By contrast, sales of AMDRadeonadd-in-boards (AIBs) stagnated, and so did market share, whereas the share of Intel’s Arc dropped to around 0%. GPU sales for desktop PCs totaled 9....

Although Adobe Acrobat Reader is designed to work with a range of fonts, it can sometimes generate invalid fonts when printing a document. You may also see one of these error messages printed on the paper. This error generally occurs when the fonts used in the document are not compatible with Acrobat Reader. It clearly indicates there is something wrong with the font settings of the application, and you need to tweak a few print settings on Acrobat to fix this issue....

Swiping is a vital navigation gesture on an iPhone. It helps to close an app and is useful for other navigation tasks. However, many iPhone users with iOS 13 or higher have experienced issues with the swipe-up gesture. Generally, this problem arises if your iPhone has software bugs. Or, if you are using a screen protector, it may be hindering the touch gestures from working. Sometimes, your device’s screen alone might be the culprit....

Riot Games announced that it would implement Vanguard anti-cheat software in League of Legends (LoL) in late February or early March 2024. It eventually did so inLoL’s Patch 14.9, which Riot released on May 1. However, this change has caused some players to get the VAN9001 error and prevented them from playing the game. The development team knew the new software implementation would be a big issue with its player base, so they wrote an in-depth explanation of anti-cheat, Vanguard, and LoL about three weeks ago onthe League of Legends blog....

Sometimes, when you are trying to video call a friend or stream on a platform from your Lenovo device, you may find your camera is not working. This issue usually occurs due to device errors or improper settings on your PC. Lenovo computers also provide a dedicated switch to disable the camera for additional security, which you may have accidentally toggled off. In addition to these, there may also be other potential causes for the error....

Lenovo’s newThinkPad P1 Gen 7 Workstation laptopis officially the world’s first laptop to featureMicron’s bleeding edge LPCAMM2 memory modules. LPCAMM2 is a new memory type based onCAMM2that’s 64% smaller thanDDR5 SO-DIMMs, and 58% more power efficient thanks to the use ofLPDDR5Xmemory. It also makes it possible to upgrade your laptop’s memory, unlike traditional LPDDR5X solutions.The ThinkPad P1 is Lenovo’s latest iteration of its ThinkPad branded prosumer laptops. The Gen 7 variant is the only model in the P1 lineup sporting Micron’s LPCAMM2 memory, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB....

Lenovo’s high-end Yoga laptops are seeing a significant refresh thanks to a slew of new chips. AtCES2024, the company revealed eight new laptops in the Yoga lineup, with six using Intel’s new Intel Core Ultra processors, while the other two are relying on AMD’s Ryzen 8040 series and Intel’s latest U-series chips.Lenovo’s flagship Yoga devices for this year are the Yoga Pro 9i and Yoga 9i 2-in-1. The laptop is a 16-inch device that pairs up to an Intel Core 9 Ultra H-series processor with a discrete GPU up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, along with up to 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of SSD storage....