You installed a new hard drive in your computer and, to your dismay, it’s nowhere to be found. Don’t panic, you just need to give Windows a little nudge to bring it online.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
How to Properly Maintain Your Home’s Attic
Getting a smart thermostat to control the heating and cooling in your house can potentially save you money depending on how you use it, but a thermostat isn’t going to save you money all by itself. Your home also needs good airflow and insulation, and the attic is the biggest piece of the puzzle.
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Geek Trivia: During The 20th Century, Blindness In Premature Babies Was Triggered By Excessive Administration Of?
During The 20th Century, Blindness In Premature Babies Was Triggered By Excessive Administration Of? |
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How to Use Android Nougat’s New Notification Controls
Android 7.0 Nougat made some pretty big improvements to notifications, but there’s one feature that’s gone unsung. Now, you can easily manipulate an app’s ability to generate notifications directly from the notification shade.
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How to Add Dropbox (or Other Cloud Services) to the Send To Menu in Windows
If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud Drive to share and back up files, you can add them to the Send To context menu in Windows for quicker file moving.
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What Is “Host Process for Windows Tasks”, and Why Are So Many Running on My PC?
If you spend any time poking around through your Task Manager window, you’ve probably seen a process named “Host Process for Windows Tasks.” In fact, you’ve likely seen multiple instances of this task running at the same time. If you’ve ever wondered what it was and why there are sometimes so many, we’ve got the answer for you.
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How to Take a Screenshot on Linux
Linux is a powerful and diverse operating system, so naturally the screenshot tools for the platform are just as powerful and diverse. The wide variety of these screeenshot tools range from simple and easy-to-use to powerful command-line tools that offer the ability to script and automate the process.
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How to Turn Your Windows PC Into a Wireless Repeater
A repeater sits within range of your Wi-Fi network and “repeats” it, extending your Wi-Fi coverage farther than your router could alone. If your Wi-Fi only covers one half of your house, a repeater placed in the middle of your home can extend your Wi-Fi to the rest of the building.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
How Do You Emulate Drag and Drop Without Holding the Mouse Button Down?
Performing a standard drag and drop motion with a mouse or track pad is not hard to do normally, but if you are recovering from an injury, then some activities or motions may be problematic and painful. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post is ready to help a reader in pain.
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How to Add Automatic Lights to Your Closets
Light switches are fine, but for something like a closet or pantry, having the lights automatically turn on and off is really convenient. Here are several ways you can add automatic lights to your closets, pantries, and other areas where you only need a small amount of temporary light.
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Geek Trivia: The Strongest Creature In The World, Per Times-Body-Weight Moved, Is The?
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How to Enable Private Browsing on Any Web Browser
Private browsing has been around in one form or another since 2005, but it took some time for every browser to get behind it. Now, no matter what browser you use, you can surf the internet without leaving behind a local trail of history, passwords, cookies, and other assorted bits of information.
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How to Set a Different Wallpaper for Your Lock Screen in Android Nougat
There comes a time in every smartphone user’s life when they just love two different wallpapers. It’s a tough bridge to cross—which one takes precedence? How can you decide? It’s rough, man. There’s a clear answer here: put one on the lock screen and one on the home screen.
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How to Use Microsoft Office’s Built-In Clipboard
Your computer’s “clipboard” is where content that you cut or copy is temporarily stored. Microsoft Office has its own clipboard, however, that’s more powerful.
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How to Set Up a Shared Network Printer in Windows 7, 8, or 10
Over the years, Windows has gotten much better about how it handles networked printers. But if you want to share a printer over the network, you may still need to do a little legwork to get it all up and running. Here’s how it all works.
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How to Stop Windows 10 From Telling Your Xbox Friends What Games You’re Playing
Windows 10’s Anniversary Update offers new “game hubs” for PC games in the Xbox app. Your friends on Xbox Live will now be able to see when you’re playing a PC game, and what PC games you recently played.
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Beginner Geek: Do I Need a Graphics Card in My PC?
There’s always a lot of chatter about computer graphics cards, thanks to bigger and better models every few months. It’s not always clear who actually needs one, though. Let’s take a look at what they are, and whether or not they’re a good fit for your PC.
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The Basic Tools Every DIYer Should Own
They say you can never have too many tools, but everyone has to start somewhere. If you’re just getting into the DIY scene, are are some basic tools that everyone should have in their toolbox.
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Geek Trivia: Plastic In Old Computers Yellows Because Of The Presence Of?
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How to View Other Messages While Composing a New One in iOS Mail
Have you ever been composing a new message in iOS Mail when you needed to refer back to an earlier email? Instead of saving the new message as a draft, just swipe it out of the way.
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How to Shut Down a Windows PC Without Installing Updates
You’re working on your laptop and you realize that it’s time to go. So, you shut down your laptop, but Windows insists on updating. Ten minutes later, you’re still waiting for Windows to update and you’re going to be late.
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How to Create Custom Tiles for Android’s Quick Settings Menu
Android 7.0 Nougat brings a lot of new features and refinements to the table, like the ability to customize Android’s Quick Settings panel with custom tile containing unique toggles and even app or web shortcuts.
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What Is the $WINDOWS.~BT Folder, and Can You Delete It?
The $WINDOWS.~BT and $WINDOWS.~WS folders are associated with the Windows 10 upgrade process. They may appear on either Windows 7, 8, or 10, using gigabytes of disk space.
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Geek Trivia: Stephen King’s “The Shining” Was Inspired By Which Of These Real Life Hotels?
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