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Illustrator artwork pixelated in Photoshop There are cases where you will create artwork in Illustrator and put it in Photoshop. If the artwork does not have the correct properties, you may notice that the crisp high-quality Illustrator artwork will be pixelated in Photoshop. Here are ways that your Illustrator artwork can become pixelated and ways that you can prevent it from happening. After seeing the 4 common causes, we will see the method you can use to place artwork in Photoshop to keep the quality...

Word document is black with white text As stated above, it has nothing to do with a bug affecting Microsoft Word. It is all due to Dark Mode. Yes, Microsoft Word supports Dark Mode, and chances are, you’ve enabled it by accident, or someone who used your computer in the past did the deed. Additionally, maybe you’ve recently chosen to use a high contrast theme. Such themes can cause a change in the look of Microsoft Word documents that might not be pleasing to the eyes....

This problem may occur when debugging mode is enabled permanently or for a long time and it is not connected with a debugger tool. Debug mode should only be enabled when you need to connect with the debugger tool to troubleshoot and you should turn it off once the purpose is served. If debug mode remains idle, the system keeps waiting for the debugger, and it can result in a system hang....

Windows 11/10 crashes or freezes even in Safe Mode If you are facing this issue, here are a few things you can do to fix the issue. Let us talk about them in detail. 1] Run Automatic Repair [Windows 11] If you want to access and run Automatic Repair manually, you need to boot into Advanced Startup options. This will let you start Windows from an external device, change Windows startup settings or restore Windows from a Factory image....

Windows 11/10 stuck at Ready to install 1] Wait for Installation to complete If you are stuck for an hour or so, we still recommend you wait for at least 3-4 hours, maybe 5 hours, to see if there is the progress made. Sometimes, Windows get stuck for hardware issue or network issue or something else, and it takes a lot of time. In case it takes any longer, it’s best to exit the installation....

For most of these problems, there are some basic things you need to do. Follow these suggestions and chances are very high that most of your problems will be resolved. While these five will fix most of your Windows problems and issues, if you need specific troubleshooting advice, do follow the links to the several solutions I have mentioned here, at the end of this post. Windows 11/10 Support and Solutions Before you commence, make sure that your Windows 10 is updated with the latest updates....

Recently, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 has some compatibility issues with some devices. According to Microsoft, these compatibility issues will affect Windows 11, version 21H2. For now, there are no fixes available for these issues. Microsoft is working on these issues and will provide possible fixes to these issues soon. Windows 11 Known issues and problems Microsoft has documented and confirmed the status of Windows 11 compatibility issues with: We will talk about these Windows 11 compatibility issues in this article....

Windows cannot complete the extraction If you receive this error while trying to compress a file, or extract the contents of a zipped file, using the built-in Windows File Explorer compression functionality, here are a few things you could try. To learn more about these steps, continue reading. 1] Restart computer To get started, restart your computer and check if it resolves the issue or not. At times, several problems get fixed by restarting the PC....

Windows cannot find printmanagement.msc If you’re faced with this issue, you need to modify the Universal Printing driver attribute to resolve the issue. Here’s how: If you can log in normally, good; else you will have to boot into Safe Mode, enter Advanced Startup options screen, or use the Installation Media to boot to be able to carry out these instructions. Modify Universal Printing driver attribute According to Microsoft in documentation, the problem affects a subset of Type 3 printer drivers and does not affect Type 4 printer drivers....

Windows computer shuts down while gaming If Windows 11/10 computer shuts down while gaming, follow these suggestions to resolve the issue: To learn more about these steps, continue reading. 1] Check if your PC meets the game’s system requirements You need to first check if your PC meets the game’s system requirements. Go to the game’s website and note the minimum hardware requirements. Then use one of these methods to find the hardware specs of your PC and see if you meet or exceed the requirements....

Windows computer will not boot up, start or turn on If your Windows PC won’t boot to the Desktop or start after a Reset, Windows Update, etc., here are a few troubleshooting steps to fix the issue. You will need an administrator account and a clear understanding when it comes to the technical aspects of the post. 1] Check SMPS SMPS or Switched-Mode Power Supply is the accessory connected to the main power supply....

Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter Windows 10/8/7 comes with this troubleshooter in-built. If you recently installed a new driver or some hardware and find some things are not working as you’d like them to, use this troubleshooter. On Windows 10, you can also open Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshoot and click on Hardware and Devices. On Windows 8/7, open Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Configure a device....

Windows Hello not working If you are facing issues with Windows Hello on your Surface or Windows 10 device, simply follow the steps we are going to lay out in this article and everything should end on a high note. Let us see them in detail now. 1] Set up Trusted Platform Module on your Device One of the first things you should do is to set up Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on your Windows 10 device....

Windows Insider Program page not visible in Settings T0 fix this issue, open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following path: Look for the DWORD (32-bit) named as HideInsiderPage and in case it does not exist, create it. Set the value of this DWORD to be 00000000 if you want to make this page visible. Make sure that the base value is set to be Hexadecimal. In case you intentionally want to hide this page from the user, you can set the Value data for the same DWORD as 00000001....

Fix Windows 11 keyboard language changes on its own The primary solution to resolving the issue Windows 11 keyboard language changes on its own is the same for Windows 11 as for Windows 10, but the procedure is vastly different. For the solution, you would have to set a different input method for each app window. The procedure to do so in Windows 11 is as follows: How will this option help?...

Windows Run-Command is a Run replacement tool A number of improvements and extra features can be noticed in this tiny application. There are five default shortcuts to the programs that we generally open using run commands. Those five shortcuts are: Taskmanager.exeSysdm.cplRegedit.exeCmd.exeCompmgmt.msc The program allows you to open the application using Run commands and moreover, it also allows you to open them as an administrator. This feature is very useful sometimes. You can even browse for an executable file and run it from this tiny application itself....

The connectivity is also more secured than before with faster and more secured encrypted HTTPS connections, industry-standard SMB AES 256 encryption among several others. Compared to the earlier Server editions, Windows Server 2022 also improves hybrid server management with significantly improved VM management, an enhanced event viewer with more features available in Windows Admin Center. There are improvements to Windows containers, such as smaller image sizes for faster download, simplified network policy implementation, and containerization tools for ....

Windows Sysinternals Suite The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains individual troubleshooting tools and helps files. However, it does not contain any non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. The major category of the tools are as follows: File and Disk UtilitiesNetworking UtilitiesProcess UtilitiesSecurity UtilitiesSystem InformationMiscellaneous The list of tools are: AccessChk is a command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more....

Windows Terminal Features Windows Terminal is a powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. The Windows Terminal supports emoji and GPU-based text rendering. This means that it can display powerline symbols, text characters, and other programming ligatures....

The Windows Update error 0x8024002d occurs while trying to update Windows or Microsoft Office products. This error can be caused by inconsistent services, corrupt files associated with Windows Updates, or problematic system files. Fix Windows Update Error 0x8024002d To solve this Error 0x8024002D, please try the following solutions sequentially: 1] Check Services associated with Windows Updates If the services associated with Windows Updates are stopped, you might encounter an error in the discussion....