Beginner How To Use Notes In Outlook 2013 For Easy Desktop Reminders

Notes are simple and very handy. They are basically desktop Post Its, which you can collect and save in your Outlook and display on your desktop as reminders to do stuff. Outlook has a lot going on for it. Obviously, you can use it for your e-mail, but you can also manage contacts together in one address book. If you’re a stickler for keeping a schedule, you’ll no doubt find its calendar skills appealing....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 751 words · Joseph Brownell

Beginner Geek 7 Ways You Can Change Default Applications And File Associations In Windows

Windows has quite a few ways to control your default applications and file associations – more than you might expect. These are used when you double-click a file, click a link, connect a device, or insert media. You can set an application as the default or all types of files it can open or tweak the applications used for individual file types, protocols, and even specific devices. Many settings are available in multiple locations....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 697 words · Clinton Carson

Do Text Based Browsers Reduce Network Traffic

There is no doubt that today’s web pages are full of rich content and use more bandwidth to fully load up, but would using a text-based browser instead of a GUI-based one make a significant difference in reducing network traffic? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

November 11, 2022 · 3 min · 545 words · Anna Filler

Does The Length Of A Usb Cable Affect Charging

Does Cable Length Matter? The length of a USB cable can impact the amount of power it’s delivering from one end to another, but there are several caveats. Additionally, you can’t simply say that if you use a long USB cable, you’ll get a slower charging speed, or that faster charging always comes with a shorter cable. But before we talk about these caveats, it’s essential to understand why the cable length matters....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 825 words · Jennifer Marlatt

Geek School Learn How To Extend Powershell

PowerShell offers two ways for you to extend the shell. You can either use snapins, which are binary only and developed in a fully-fledged programming language like C#, or you can use modules, which can be binary as well as script based. Be sure to read the previous articles in the series: Learn How to Automate Windows with PowerShell Learning to Use Cmdlets in PowerShell Learning How to Use Objects in PowerShell Learning Formatting, Filtering and Comparing in PowerShell Learn to Use Remoting in PowerShell Using PowerShell to Get Computer Information Working with Collections in PowerShell...

November 11, 2022 · 3 min · 624 words · Steven Merritt

Get Free Covid At Home Tests Online Now Courtesy Of Uncle Sam

To get your four free tests, you need to head to covidtests.gov. Once there, click on “Order Free At-Home Tests.” This will take you to a USPS website where you need to enter your information. They need your name and address. You can also share your email address if you’d like to be notified when the tests ship. Once you order your four free tests, if you signed up with your email, you’ll get a confirmation that your order was placed....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 227 words · Jesus Mosqueda

Google Is Now Blocking Crapware In Search Results Ads And Chrome

We’ve been doing a lot of research into crapware and malware lately, and one of the most troubling things we found was that Google was serving up search results for open source software… with crapware-bundling ads at the top. Now it appears they’ve ended this policy and are pointing to the real download at the top. RELATED: Yes, Every Freeware Download Site is Serving Crapware (Here’s the Proof) Based on a post on Google’s Online Security Blog, they’ve made some new changes to Google Search, Ads, and even Chrome, to make it much more difficult for unwanted software to get onto your PC....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 694 words · Matthew Pfeffer

How Much Cloud Storage Space Will You Really Use

Size Matters To see how much space you need, it’s probably best to first figure out what type of files you’ll be storing, how many of them—and also why. For example, if you’re an individual that just wants a safe place to back up their family photos, you’ll have very different demands from a professional photographer that uses the cloud as a place to store work product. As a rule, media files take up a great deal more space than text files do....

November 11, 2022 · 5 min · 876 words · Staci Klein

How To Access Shared Windows Folders On Android Ipad And Iphone

Share a folder with Windows’ built-in sharing options and you can access it on an Android device, iPad, or iPhone. This is a convenient way to stream videos from your PC or access other files wirelessly. You can access folders shared from Mac or Linux in the exact same ways. You’ll just need to share the folders so they’re accessible from Windows PCs. They’ll appear alongside your available Windows PCs....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 744 words · Salvador Phillips

How To Add Settings Shortcut Widgets To The Home Screen In Android

You probably have some settings that you access on a regular basis. Instead of going into the Settings app on the status bar every time, you can create shortcut widgets to specific locations in the Settings app for one-click access. To do this, touch the “All Apps” icon in the dock either at the bottom of the screen (in Portrait mode) or on the right side of the screen (in Landscape mode)....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 238 words · Pablo Gonzalez

How To Avoid Junkware Offers With Unchecky

You recommend a program to a family member, and they proceed to install it along with five other junkware programs that sneak their way on to their computer in the installation process. Sound familiar? Unchecky prevents these unnecessary programs from installing themselves by unchecking the appropriate boxes. What is Unchecky? Unchecky is a lightweight application that aims to “keep your checkboxes clear.” It automatically unchecks the boxes that allow companies to install promotional crapware on your computer, and issues warnings if you accidentally agree to install something you may not want....

November 11, 2022 · 3 min · 627 words · Jane Rodriguez

How To Bring Back The View Image Button In Google Image Search

Google’s image-based search engine has been a staple of the internet for more than a decade. But this morning it got a little less useful: in addition to making the reverse image search tool harder to find, the “Show Image” button has disappeared. The button formerly functioned as a direct link to the image in question, allowing users to bypass the hosting web site itself. Its disappearance is apparently due to an agreement Google has made with the stock image provider Getty Images, in order to get the latter’s photo content included in image search results....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 316 words · Phillip Heimbach

How To Cancel Your Xbox Game Pass Subscription

Microsoft introduced Xbox Game Pass in June 2017. For $9.99 per month, Xbox owners had access to a rotating library of more than 100 games. The service also provides discounts on these games if you want to keep them in your digital library. Moreover, users had access to the Xbox Play Anywhere games on a Windows PC. Two years later, Microsoft introduced a similar, stand-alone, all-you-can-eat service for Windows 10, costing $9....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 393 words · Elizabeth Walters

How To Convert A Physical Windows Or Linux Pc To A Virtual Machine

Want to keep an old Windows or Linux installation around without keeping the hardware around? Convert that physical Windows partition to a virtual hard drive, allowing you to boot it in a virtual machine program like VMware, Hyper-V, Parallels, or VirtualBox. Windows ties itself to your computer’s hardware. These tools will create a copy of a physical machine’s state and turn it into a virtual machine, allowing it to boot in the virtual machine program you prefer....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 749 words · Gary Swift

How To Create A Copy Of An Excel Worksheet Without Formulas

Say you’ve created an Excel workbook you need to distribute, but you can’t reveal the formulas you used in that workbook. We’ll show you an easy trick that allows you to copy a worksheet to another workbook and quickly remove the formulas, so only the results show. RELATED: Defining and Creating a Formula This method allows you to move or copy worksheets from one workbook to another, but in our example we’re going to copy (not move) a worksheet to a new workbook, so we preserve the formulas in the original workbook....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 398 words · Mark Cunningham

How To Disable Hyperlinks In Microsoft Word

When you type a web or email address in Word, you may notice that the program automatically formats it as a live hyperlink. This is a setting in Word’s AutoFormat feature that is on by default but can be easily turned off. Live web hyperlinks in Word allow you to press “Ctrl” and click on a web hyperlink to open that web address in a browser. For live email address hyperlinks, you can press “Ctrl” and click on the email address to open your default email program and automatically insert the email address in the “To” field....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Lawrence Fitz

How To Find Your Unique Steam Id

Your Steam ID is a 17-digit number that uniquely identifies your account on the platform. You may need this ID to link certain services (like Ubisoft) to your account. We’ll show you how to find this ID in the Steam app. Your unique Steam ID also allows users to access your profile. For example, if your ID is 12345678912345678 , your Steam profile URL (web link) will be: You can customize this URL so it’s easier for people to find you on this platform, as we’ll explain below....

November 11, 2022 · 2 min · 338 words · Delbert Sloan

How To Go Digital And Get Your Old Physical Media Onto Your Pc

Why manage a collection of audio CDs, DVDs, some videos on VHS tapes, photos, and other documents in physical form? Go digital to get all your stuff on your PC — and on your other devices. You don’t have to get rid of the originals, but this will let you access them more easily. It’s also a good way to create a backup copy of all your important stuff, which will come in handy if you ever lose it....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 704 words · Ella Doran

How To Have Different Headers And Footers Per Page In Google Docs

By adding a header or footer to your document, you can include information without distracting from the content. But you may not want the same one on each page. Here’s how to use different headers and footers in Google Docs. Headers and footers are common locations for things like your company name or logo, page numbers, the document author, and the date. But not all documents need these details. You may have a document where you want a header or footer on only the first page, every other page, or one that’s unique on each page....

November 11, 2022 · 4 min · 714 words · Melissa Myers

How To Login To Os X Yosemite Automatically Without A Password

If you have a computer at home and there’s nobody else around, there really isn’t any reason to login every single time you need to use it. Luckily you can easily set OS X to login automatically. You can also setup Windows to login automatically. Make OS X Login Automatically Open up System Preferences, click on the Security & Privacy icon. Once you are there, click on the Lock icon in the lower left-hand corner....

November 11, 2022 · 1 min · 120 words · Theresa Fisher