Windows Tutorials

If you travel a lot with a laptop you may find yourself working in many different time zones. The challenge is that your laptop will display the incorrect time. This can make it particularly challenging when scheduling or attending meetings.

Rather than manually updating your time as you step foot into each new geography, one solution is to configure your time settings to update based on your location. This process is quite simple.

Let’s get started!

Note: This solution requires Windows 10

Configure Automatic Time Zone

From your Windows 10 desktop, right click on the time in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.

From the context menu select Adjust Date/Time.

From the Date & Time settings window flip the toggle under Set Time Zone Automatically to the On position.

Your time zone (and time) will update automatically based on your location in the world.

You will also notice that once you configured your PC to use an automatic time zone, all other manual zone settings, such as the drop-down box to set the time zone are now grayed out.

A file extension is the string of characters that follows the period in a file name. For example, Finances.xlsx would indicate that the file is formatted in Excel 2007 or later. By default newer versions of Windows hide the extension of known file types. This isn’t a big deal for Excel Workbooks as the file icon is universally known. However, what happens when a file has a fairly generic or lesser-known icon? What happens when two file types possess very similar icons but provide different functions. For example, an OST versus a PST. Hard to guess which one is which by sight alone.

We wouldn’t want to accidentally manipulate the wrong file type. Deleting an OST cache file is no big deal. Accidentally deleting a PST can result in data loss. One possibility is right-clicking and checking the properties of the file. But if you are working with dozens of files it might be easier to display the file extensions in Windows Explorer.

To show file extensions in Windows 10 is a relatively straightforward task. The process is the same with Windows 8.

From Windows Explorer click View.

Select Options >> Change folder and search options.

Click View tab. Deselect Hide extensions for known file types. Click Ok.

You are all set!

To show hidden files in Windows 10 is a relatively straightforward task. The process is the same as Windows 8.

From Windows Explorer click View.

Select Options >> Change folder and search options.

Click the View tab. Select Show hidden files, folders and drives. Click Ok.

You are all set!

Do you typically show your hidden files? Drop a comment below or join the conversation on Twitter @SuperTekBoy.

With the Windows 10 keynote announcing that Cortana will be coming to the PC, we thought it would be really awesome to figure out all the fun things you can ask her.

Many of these are well documented around the web. Although, we found a few ourselves. Such as asking Cortana the famous Monty Python line, “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” or “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. At least, we can’t find anyone else that has discovered those yet.

Some questions are funny. Some questions are geeky. And some, just outright creepy.

We didn’t want to show her responses. That’s for you to enjoy. Besides, who likes spoilers anyway? (Okay, just one then. Look up.)

Let us know if we missed any good ones. Our community recommended section is growing like crazy! We are up over 160 questions to ask Cortana now. Plus, which one is your favorite?

Found any good questions to ask Alexa? Let us know by dropping a comment on the sister blog post 131 funny, geeky and creepy questions to ask Alexa.

(Check out the credits at the bottom for a list of our sources.)