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Overcome sound problems Audio problems are currently the most widely reported complaints about Windows 10. There are various workarounds depending on the source of the problem, so if you’re not sure what’s gone wrong, or even what hardware you have installed, try them all. To fix an issue with Conexant audio hardware, click Start, type msconfig.exe, hit Enter and click on the Boot tab. Click the Advanced options button, click the Maximum memory box and set the value to ‘3072’. For a VIA HD Audio-related problem, right-click the audio icon in the System Tray, and select Playback Devices. Right-click the audio output device and select ‘Set as Default Device’. Select the hardware, click Properties, click the Enhancements tab and tick the ‘Disable all enhancements’ box. Finally, if you have a Realtek audio driver installation problem (you’ll see the error code 0x000005b4), there’s a solution to try at bit.ly/sounderror378. Overcome Windows 10

The Windows 10 upgrade process should go smoothly, but occasionally it doesn’t. The error 0x800F0923 is likely caused by an incompatible program or driver. You can address the issue in the Get Windows 10 app by clicking the menu button, and then ‘Check your PC’. Error 0x800F0922 happens when there is not enough free space on the partition you’re installing Windows in. Error 0x80200056 occurs when the upgrade was interrupted try again and hopefully it will work this time. If your PC fails to meet the minimum requirements (which should only happen with a very old PC), you will see the error codes 0xC1900200 

0x20008 and 0xC1900202 – 0x20008. 

Changing the colour of program title bars in Windows 10 is much harder than it used to be. Open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes. Click the ‘aero’ folder, copy it by pressing Ctrl+C, then paste (Ctrl+V) to create a backup. Click Continue in the Folder Access Denied box, then tick the ‘Do this for all current items’ option and click Skip. Select the copied folder and press F2, then name the folder ‘Colours’. Click Continue to skip the UAC warning.

Open the folder, select ‘aero.mstyles’, press F2 and rename it ‘colours.mstyles’. Open the en-GB folder and change ‘aero.msstyles.mui’ to ‘colours.msstyles.mui’. Accept the UAC warning both times. Return to the Themes folder and copy the ‘aero.theme’ file to your Desktop. Rename it ‘colors.theme’. Right-click the file, go to ‘Open with’ and select Notepad. Scroll down to the [VisualStyles] section and change‘Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles’ to ‘Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Aero\colours.msstyles’. Close and save the file, then double-click the shortcut to change the colour of the title bars. To change the colour scheme, go to Start, Settings, click Personalisation and pick a different colour. The changes will be made instantly. To undo the change, open the Desktop shortcut in Notepad, rename ‘Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Aero\colours.msstyles’ back

to ‘Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles’, save the file and double-click the shortcut.