While there haven’t been a ton of revolutionary improvements to the Windows Weather app since its revamp in Windows 8, it’s still a popular way for people to quickly check in with the weather from their desktop. Here’s how to configure your app’s settings, manage your favorite’s list, and set up the live tile.
Set Your Location
To add your location to the Windows 10 Weather app, start by finding the tile in your Start menu, and opening up the program.
Because my Weather app is already configured, you can see that I have Portland, Oregon automatically displaying as the hometown.
You can enter your settings configuration by clicking the small gear icon, located in the bottom-left hand corner of the window.
Though there aren’t a ton of settings available, you can choose what type of temperature the app displays in (Fahrenheit or Celsius), as well as the location that you see when the app first pops up.
The “Launch Location” setting controls what you see when the app boots up. This can be toggled to either show one city by default, or to detect your location each time you open the app.
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Whichever setting you choose, it will affect both the city on the front page summary and the starting location used in the Maps and Historical Weather tabs.
The only feature unaffected by the Launch Location setting are the articles listed in the News tab, which will stay the same no matter where your city is set.
Create and Manage Your Favorites
If you’re travelling often (or just a meteorology junkie), you can set a list of favorites in the Places tab.
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Here you can add favorite cities into tiles which display short summaries of the current weather there, and double as a link to that city’s homepage.
To add a favorite city, start by clicking on the tile with the plus sign in the middle, seen below:
You’ll be taken to the following screen:
Once you enter your city, find and click it in the drop-down list. It will now appear every time you open the Places tab.
Favorites can be deleted by right-clicking on the tile you want to get rid of, and selecting the option to “Remove from Favorites”.
The Live Tiles Bug
The Weather app works well enough when you open it, but there have been many complaints that the Live Tiles feature doesn’t exactly work the way it should.
Normally, this tile should display the current temperature with a snapshot of the upcoming forecast that’s updated every few minutes–as shown above.
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However, users on the official Windows 10 forum have reported that sometimes, after resizing the Weather app on their Start menu, the icon stops showing live updates, even with repeated restarts. So far there have been a number of proposed fixes for the problem, but like most solutions to Windows bugs, they only seem to work for a select number of people at a time. Some include:
Two years have passed since people started complaining about the problem, but Microsoft still hasn’t revealed any plans about a patch in the pipeline that could resolve it. We’ll be sure to amend this article if a hotfix is ever released.
Whether or not the Live Tile is functioning the way it should, the Windows Weather app can still be a good way to keep tabs on what’s happening with sunny skies or approaching storms in your area from the comfort of your own desktop.
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Talking about the weather may be the ultimate sign that an awkward conversation is going nowhere. Nevertheless, most of us think about the weather often enough that we want to know what it's going to be like outside on any given day.
In the summer, you want to know when it's going to be boiling hot. In the winter, you need to know when to wear that extra layer. In the spring, you always want to know the rain forecast, so you have someone to blame for getting soaked after leaving your umbrella at home.
Windows 8.1 users that like the modern UI have it easy since they are many weather apps with live tiles that deliver quick updates. But if you're one of the weather obsessed masses living solely on the desktop, you can still keep tabs on the weather. Here's a quick look at three ways to have the current temperature and forecast always at hand on the desktop.
Weather in the taskbar
There are several desktop apps that put the weather in your system tray/notifications area. The one I have had the most success with is Weatherbug, which sits in your notifications area constantly displaying the current temperature.
When you first install Weatherbug, you may have to drag it into the system tray by clicking on the upward facing arrow on the right-hand side of the taskbar. In the pop-up window, just drag-and-drop the weather icon onto the notifications area.
If you need a larger icon, just leave Weatherbug running and minimize the window to the taskbar as the app displays the current weather instead of a taskbar icon.
The one thing to watch out for with Weatherbug is that it attempts to install a potentially unwanted program (PUP). It will try to install the Ask.com toolbar into your browser and change your default search engine to Ask. To avoid this switch, just press cancel when the screen with these options appears, or try using Unchecky.
Weatherize with widgets
Windows 8 and 8.1 doesn't have the built-in widgets feature that Windows 7 and 8 users do, but if widgets are your thing give Rainmeter a try. If you've never heard of it, Rainmeter is a desktop widget utility that can display all kinds of useful information on your desktop such as CPU temperature, network graphs, new headlines, and the current weather.
If you've never used Rainmeter before, it takes a little getting used to, but it's not all that difficult. Check out our tutorial on how to Supercharge your desktop with Rainmeter widgets to get started.
Once you're up and running, there are several nice skins and suites you can try out for weather displays including the basic Enigma skin that comes with Rainmeter as well as Detox, Lim!t, and myHUDS Futura 4.0.
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If you spend most of your day in the browser, then a browser extension that constantly displays the current temperature might make more sense for you.
A very nice choice for Chrome is Weather by 64px. A very simple and easy to understand extension, it auto-detects your location and displays the current temperature.
Click the icon and you get an hourly breakdown of today's weather as well as a four-day forecast. This extension's Weather data comes from Weather Underground.
I'm not a huge fan of the current crop of Firefox extensions, but Aniweather is an interesting choice. It offers a ton of information, but it also takes up a lot of space on the toolbar.
While the weather is not the most exciting topic of conversation, it's always handy to have basic forecast and temperature information at hand, whether it's in a widget, on the taskbar, or sitting in your browser.
The temperature of your computer’s processor is pretty vital for keeping it healthy. After all, being the hotspot of calculations within your computer, it’s a good idea to keep it cool! Processors that get a little too hot can cause all kinds of issues with your computer. It might throttle itself to keep cool, which will mean less processing power overall. In dire situations it will cause the computer to BSOD, freeze, or even shut down or restart itself.
As such, it’s a good idea to check on your temperatures every so often. This is especially true if you put your laptop in situations where it might overheat, such as on your blanket or duvet as you use the laptop in bed. In this article we’ll explore the different ways you can check CPU temperature in Windows 10.
But First – What’s a “Bad Temperature?”
Unfortunately, it’s not immediately obvious what a good or bad temperature for a processor is. If you looked up your processor’s idle temperature and saw it was at 30C, is that a good or bad idle temperature? What about 40, 50, 60, or 70C?
If you want to know what your processor’s max temperature is, search the Web for the product page of your specific CPU, then find where it lists the max ideal temperature for your processor.
If the temperature is listed under something similar to “Maximum Operating Temperature” or “T Case,” then that’s the temperature which you should strive to keep your processor under most of the time. If it says “T Junction” (like above), the general advice is to keep things at least 30C under this stated temperature. (For the above example we’ll be striving to stay under 70C.) Either way, if your PC is under this temperature for most (or, ideally, all!) of the time, you’re doing fine.
Now that we know what the temperature limit is, it’s time to explore how to check CPU temperature in Windows 10. This requires the aid of third-party programs which will help keep tabs on how hot the processor is getting.
Open Hardware Monitor
Open Hardware Monitor is a nice solution for getting all your needed statistics in one place. This will be able to tell you what your CPU’s temperatures are as well as your GPU’s temperature, the voltages being used in your computer, and even how fast your system fans are going. This makes it a robust tool that allows you to keep an eye on all your system temperatures.
You can find your CPU’s temperature under the category with your CPU’s name in it. It will list a temperature for each core your processor has:
A lot of these temperature monitors allow you to put readings onto your taskbar. This is particularly useful if you’re doing system-intensive tasks and want to keep an eye on your temperatures without darting back and forth between the active window and the system monitor. If you’d like to see the CPU temperature in the taskbar, right-click the temperature itself and click “Show in Tray.”
If the reading ends up hiding in the “additional” icons section, you can drag it out onto the main active tray. This means it’ll always be visible as long as you can see the taskbar.
Core Temp
If you’d like something a little more focused on the processor itself, Core Temp is a good choice when you need to check CPU temperature in Windows 10. It gives you everything you may want to know about your processor such as its name, the cores it uses, and – most importantly – its temperature. It will even inform you of your processor’s T Junction limit, listed as “Tj. Max” above your temperatures.
If you’d like to see the temperature in the system tray, it should be enabled by default. If it’s not, click “Options,” then “Settings.”
Click the “Windows Taskbar” tab, then “Enable Windows 7 Taskbar features,” followed by “Temperature,” then “OK.”
Speccy
Another all-in-one suite, Speccy, comes as a nice package of various systems diagnostics, including the ability to check CPU temperature in Windows 10. As soon as you open Speccy, you’re shown all the relevant temperatures you need to know for a healthy laptop. It’s also great for digging up information on your system, so make sure you remember this application should you need information about your operating system or motherboard, for instance.
If you click on “CPU” on the left, you can get more focused information on your processor.
If you’d like the temperature to appear in the tray, click “View,” then “Options.”
Click “System tray,” then “Minimize to tray,” followed by “Display metrics in tray,” then select “CPU.”
Now when you minimize Speccy, you can keep tabs on how hot your CPU is running as you do other things.
Help! My Processor Is Too Hot!
If the above methods lead you to discover that you have quite a toasty processor, don’t panic. There are many solutions you can use to bring your processor down to a more reasonable level. We published an article about how to cool down an overheating laptop, so see if the solutions there will help bring your CPU down to a more manageable heat.
Checking the Heat
Being a vital part of your laptop, an overheating processor is a cause for concern. With third party apps, however, you can easily check CPU temperature in Windows 10 and ensure your processor is working as cool as it should.
How attentive are you to your CPU’s temperature? Do you like to keep a constant eye on it, or do you only check every once in a while? Let us know below.
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