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Most of the time, sharing a computer with others works out fine, but what do you do if you suspect someone is logging into your account behind your back? How do you find out or check to see if someone has successfully compromised your account? 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. The Question SuperUser reader Erel Segal Halevi wants to know if there is a way to see if someone has logged into his account in Windows:...

The option to delete a file association is conspicuously absent from file associations user interface in Windows 7, so how can you delete file associations you no longer want? Read on as we explore how to remove a default file association. 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. The Question SuperUser reader Christothes writes:...

The Internet is complicated. Never mind net neutrality — peering agreements can affect services like Netflix and YouTube, slowing down their traffic. Issues with peering agreements may be indistinguishable from an ISP throttling some types of traffic. Netflix and YouTube make up a huge percentage of Internet traffic, so it’s no surprise they’d be points of contention when it comes to negotiating who carries whose traffic and who pays for it....

Microsoft is restoring the Start button and adding a boot-to-desktop option in Windows 8.1, but they aren’t giving up on the Modern interface. The Modern interface has been dramatically updated, and it no longer feels quite as half-baked. Windows 8.1 is what Windows 8 should have been, and the Modern interface in Windows 8.1 is what should have shipped in the first place. Microsoft would have seen much less criticism if it did....

A funny thing happened after a recent move – after setting up my wireless router in a new apartment, no matter how I tried, I couldn’t change the name of the device’s wired network connection on any of the Windows 8 machines physically attached to it. Puzzling? Very. This went for weeks and I’d regularly return to trying to fix it, but when the answer isn’t blindingly obvious and every sane attempt to find one doesn’t work, I tend to give up after a while....

Windows 10 gained a new pen settings panel with the Anniversary Update. If your device has a pen or another type of stylus, you can customize exactly how it works and what its buttons do from the Settings window. This previously required device-specific apps like the Microsoft Surface app for configuring the Surface Pen on Surface devices. The Microsoft Surface app still allows you to adjust a Surface Pen’s pressure sensitivity, and other device-specific tools may still have additional settings....

When you’re analyzing data in a spreadsheet, counting empty or blank cells could help you focus on specific areas. This is why functions like COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, and SUMPRODUCT are so important in Google Sheets. A word of warning, however. If you have a cell that contains an empty text string (“”) or has a formula that returns a similar result, this cell would be blank, but it wouldn’t technically be empty....

To create a new folder for your Google Docs documents, you don’t necessarily have to open Google Drive. You can make new folders from within Google Docs on the web and mobile and we’ll show you how. The folders that you create from within Docs are saved alongside your other folders in Google Drive. Create a Folder in Google Docs on the Web To create a new folder in Google Docs on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, launch a web browser on your computer and open the Google Docs site....

The Linux terminal has a number of useful commands that can display running processes, kill them, and change their priority level. This post lists the classic, traditional commands, as well as some more useful, modern ones. Many of the commands here perform a single function and can be combined — that’s the Unix philosophy of designing programs. Other programs, like htop, provide a friendly interface on top of the commands....

Whether you need to perform diagnostics on a program or if you need to see what a suspected malware program is doing, you can use Process Explorer to essentially put the program on pause while you look at what it is doing. You might be wondering why you would want to suspend a process, and the answer is simple: if you need to do some work but a process is running away with the CPU, you can suspend the process and then resume when you are done with whatever else you need to do....

If you followed our guide to encrypting your removable disks with Bit Locker, you will recall that we saved our recovery key to the cloud, which is a new feature in Windows 8. The first thing we need to do is go and retrieve that key, which can be done by heading over to this URL. At this point you will need to sign into your Microsoft account, the same one you signed into Windows 8 with....

Grafana is a leading observability platform for metrics visualization. It lets you build bespoke dashboards to surface meaningful insights from your application’s real-time data streams. Grafana’s a cloud-native application that’s ready to be launched on popular infrastructure providers, installed on your own hardware, or deployed as a standalone container. In this guide we’ll focus on the latter choice by using the official Grafana image to start an instance that runs in Docker....

If a Windows system is badly infected with malware, running an antivirus from inside Windows often won’t help. You can more easily find and purge malware by scanning from outside Windows. Malware can hide itself on an infected system, avoiding detection. Other malware may attempt to battle the antivirus software, preventing it from properly installing or scanning. This is why it’s important to catch malware before it infects you....

Zoom, a popular video-conferencing application, is in hot water today. The Mac version runs a secret web server in the background—even after you uninstall it!—that can be used to reinstall Zoom and even turn on your video camera. If you’re wondering whether you’re affected—maybe you’re not sure if someone has ever installed Zoom on your Mac and then uninstalled it—here’s how to check. To see whether you have the main Zoom app currently installed, open the Finder app, select Applications, and look for “zoom....

Your Nest Thermostat can learn your preferences over time and automatically adjust the temperature accordingly. But if you’d rather program specific temperatures for specific times, here’s how to set a schedule on your Nest. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat Of course, a feature like this can be found on any programmable thermostat, but the Nest makes it rather quick and easy to set a schedule and do it right from your smartphone within the Nest app, but you can also do it right on the thermostat itself....

You probably secure your iPhone with Touch ID or a passcode. If you have an Apple Watch, you can secure that against unauthorized access as well. Additionally, you need to have a passcode enabled on your watch to be able to use Apple Pay. You’re probably thinking, “But, I don’t want to enter a passcode on that tiny screen every time I want to use my watch.” Luckily, that’s not the case....

RELATED: How to Search All Streaming Services For a Movie or TV Show Batman (1966) Play Video The goofy 1960s Batman TV series came to the big screen with this villain team-up, pitting Adam West’s Batman and Burt Ward’s Robin against a whole crew of bad guys from the TV show. Calling themselves the United Underworld, the Joker (Cesar Romero), the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), the Riddler (Frank Gorshin), and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) hatch a ridiculous plot to dehydrate a council of world diplomats, and then abduct them in powder form....

The big cloud storage services — Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and others — all have the same problem. They can only synchronize folders inside your cloud storage folder. But there’s a way around this limitation: symbolic links. Symbolic links are extremely useful for synchronizing any folder on your PC. You may want to synchronize some sort of configuration file that has to be in a specific location on your PC, for example....

On the “Your Account” page, scroll down to the list of quick links near the bottom of the page. In the “Ordering and Shopping Preferences” box, click “1-Click Settings.” The link that you just clicked was a shortcut to the Your Account > Your Payments > Settings > Your Purchase Preferences page. On this page, click the “Disable 1-Click Everywhere” link located in the box near the upper-right corner of the page....

Word includes a very powerful search feature that allows you to find information based on almost every kind of condition. There are special wildcard characters that allow you to search for information based on specific patterns and character sequences. Wildcard searches are available on the standard Find and Replace dialog box, using a special setting. We’ll show you the basics of using this feature to help you learn how you can find almost anything in your Word documents....