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How to Close Laptop But Still Use External Monitor on Windows 10

There are times when we only want to run the laptop on an external monitor without laptop screen staying on (or with lid closed). However, without proper settings, your laptop will go into sleep mode, hibernate or even shut down when you try to close the lid or attempt to switch off its screen.

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How to Switch Between Headphones and Speakers in Windows 10

How to Switch Between Headphones and Speakers in Windows 10

If you have one or multiple pairs of headphones and speakers all connected to a same computer, instead of having to repeatedly plugging and unplugging your headphones or speakers, you can easily switch between them in Windows 10.

How to switch between audio devices in Windows 10

To quickly switch between headphones, speakers or other audio devices, follow the steps below. (more…)

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“Your Dropbox is Full” or “Almost Full” Message, What can you do?

Getting annoyed by the non-stop pop up of “Your Dropbox is full” or “Your Dropbox is almost full” notification message? Dropbox will continue to show the notification every times you boot your PC and at a certain time everyday to remind you how long it has been stop syncing your files due to maximum storage space reached in your Dropbox account. (more…)

Fix: System_Thread_Exception_Not_Handled Nvlddmkm.sys

This post explains the error System Thread Exception Not Handled Nvlddmkm.sys BSOD in Windows 10, why it’s showing up and how you can fix it. Also applicable to similar error system thread exception not handled atikmdag.sys, ntfs.sys, acpi.sys, dxgmms2.sys, ntoskrnl.exe, wdf01000.sys, bcmwl63a.sys, or lvrs64.sys.

Very often when end users like us meet these problems and post help on Microsoft’s support forum or anywhere else, we tend to always get copy pasted replies such as to use a Windows installation disc to run a startup repair, perform automatic system clean up, rollback system to a previous restore point, reinstall Windows 10, etc which most of the time didn’t help to fix the problem entirely.

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