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Microsoft is offering all users of Windows 8.1 Update and Windows 7 SP1 the Windows 10 upgrade for free until July 29, 2016. But what happens after the expiration date of the free Windows 10 upgrade?

When does the free Windows 10 upgrade expire?

The free upgrade offer for Windows 10 expires on July 29, 2016 at midnight. After that, if you decide to upgrade, you will have to pay.

What happens after the free Windows 10 upgrade offer expires?

If you are a user of Windows 8.1 Update or Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and your device supports the new operating system, you have already received free upgrade notification via the Get Windows 10 application. Free upgrade is not available for devices running Windows RT or Windows RT 8.1. Enterprise customers with an active software assurance subscription for volume licensing have the advantage of switching to Windows 10 Enterprise offerings outside of this offering. read more

Twitter for Windows 10 is a universal Windows application for Windows 10 PCs and tablets that gives you instant access to your Twitter account. Fans of themes with a dark or black background will be happy that you can also enable the dark theme for the Twitter application.

First of all some strong points of Twitter for Windows 10 App:

• • • Twitter Live Tiles
    • Multiple tweets photo – upload up to four photos per tweet
    • Animated GIFs
    • Vine playback
    • Tweets with photos, vine videos and other selected content now a preview in your home timeline
    • Share photos privately in direct messages.

    Activate Dark Theme for Windows 10 Twitter App

    To activate Dark Theme, type Twitter in the Windows 10 search field and open the Twitter desktop application and log in to your account.

    Select Me on the left side and click Settings on the right side. read more

If you have found a black screen with the message – Reboot and Select proper Boot device, Or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key, you are in the right place, because we will show you how to solve this problem.

This is a common problem among those who have changed their hard disk or inserted an additional hard disk. Whether you are using Windows 10 or an earlier version of Windows – you may have the same problem. There are many people who want to upgrade their hard disk by installing an additional hard disk, but if they do, they are very likely to receive this message when starting the machine after changing the hard disk. read more

Many users want to block access to the Windows Store for their own reasons. However, if you find that you cannot or cannot disable the Windows store in Windows 10 Pro, this article will explain why.

Windows Store cannot be turned off

If you recently updated your computer to Windows 10 Pro v 1511, you will notice that the setting is not applied even if you apply the group policy setting corresponding to Turn off the Store application.

This is a design because Microsoft has now deleted this option.

Previously, you could navigate to the following GPOs to disable the Windows store in Windows 10 Pro. read more

Some of you may remember SuperFish or eDellRoot. These were insecure root certificates installed on users’ computers without their knowledge. While most anti-malware tools are capable of identifying and removing malicious certificates, there are tools like RCC Root Certificate Scanner that focus on removing dangerous root certificates from a Windows computer. SysInternals SigCheck from Microsoft is another tool that does not scan dangerous and unsigned certificates, but now even scans all files in a folder with VirusTotal. read more

Because we keep our Windows operating system and desktop software up to date, we must also ensure that our Windows Store applications are up to date. By default, Windows 10 is configured to automatically search and update Windows Store applications. However, if you have disabled automatic updates, you must manually check for updates for Windows Store applications. This article shows you how to manually check for updates for Windows Store App & Games in Windows 10.

Manual check for Windows Store application updates

If you have turned off automatic application updates, you may need to check them manually. To check for updates to your Windows Store applications and games, open the Store application and click the user image. read more

If Microsoft Update or Windows Update offers or installs the same update again and again in Windows 10/8/7, this post suggests things you may want to try to fix.

This usually occurs when an update has not been properly installed and your Windows operating system cannot detect the update installed or partially installed. In this scenario, it considers that your system needs the update and therefore installs it again and again.

Windows 10 will continue to install the same update

1] First, you should try writing the update number that will be installed again and again. It will be something like KB1234567. read more

Slowly but surely, Windows 10 users have become interested in the Microsoft application Movies & TV or Movies & TV(16), because they can load external subtitles during movie playback. This was a major disadvantage in standard applications such as Windows Media Player. This has led users to switch to alternative applications such as VLC Player to load subtitles. Not any more!

Loading external subtitles in Movies & TV App

Movies & TV app in Windows 10 supports loading external subtitles. If you are interested in loading an external subtitle file into the Movies & TV application under Windows 10, proceed as follows. Edit audio tracks. read more

Microsoft loves feedback, so they made it easy for you to give them feedback on Windows 10 Start Search. Microsoft collects feedback from users so that they can improve their products and services and identify and resolve problems.

Give feedback on Cortana, Bing, Start Search to Microsoft

To give feedback to Microsoft on searching in Windows 10, click the search icon on the taskbar. The start menu with the search field opens.

Click on the feedback icon on the left side to open the form in the beginning itself, as shown in the image.

Here you can submit your ideas, what you like or dislike, comment up to 400 characters and insert a screenshot. If you use language, you can use your voice to dictate your feedback. read more

One of the best ways to protect your data is to encrypt all important files and folders. Microsoft offers a simple tool called EFS (Encrypted File Service). Microsoft’s integrated tool is quite simple in its function. With a few mouse clicks, your files are safely stored in its safe. When a folder is encrypted, Windows adds a lock icon to the folder icon to identify it as an encrypted folder. However, if you do not want anyone to know that this is an encrypted folder, you can delete the overlay icon. read more