When you add icons to your desktop, you create shortcuts to folders or programs such as your Recycle Bin or Control Panel. Here's how to add icons to your desktop in Windows 10.

Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type -- images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app.

Adding your own customized program shortcuts to the Start menu is easy, once you know where those shortcuts are stored. Here's how to create your own subfolder full of one-click links to tasks in ...

For that task, you need to inform Windows when you launch the program that you want to do so as an administrator, and then you have to approve the action from a User Account Control dialog box.

E-mail isn’t the only way to share files with friends. Tweak the Windows 10 ‘Send to’ feature to add more programs. Q: Last year, following your advice, I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

Thanks for the help. — Gary Briggs Tech+ The fastest way to make sure Windows 10 is up to date is press the Windows button on the bottom left and type “Windows Update” in the search box.