We recently reported about Microsoft yanking the November Update from the Media Creation Tool (MCT) and Windows Update. Today, the company restored the update, and this new cumulative update fixes privacy settings that led to it being pulled in the first place. If you upgraded to the November Update version 1511 and turned off the Privacy Settings shown below, the update reverted them to the default value, which is on....
If that’s all you needed to hear to want to sign up, hop on over to Spotify Premium for Students with Hulu page now. For more details, read on. Spotify and Hulu for $5 Deal for College Students So, here’s the deal: You get Spotify Premium for Students and Hulu’s Limited Commercial Plan for just $4.99 a month. To be eligible, you have to prove that you’re enrolled in a US Title IV accredited college or university and that you’re at least 18 years old....
To install the new channels, from the main menu scroll over to Apps. Then select Apps Marketplace. Then select See All. Then select the Video app you want to download. As you can see, YouTube and Syfy are now available. YouTube on the Xbox 360 is intuitive and has interesting features. It lets you connect your Xbox gamer tag with your YouTube account. Microsoft is slipping out into every platform....
Make Command Prompt Transparent in Windows 10 Launch the Command Prompt by hitting the Windows Key and type: cmd and hit Enter or select it from the hidden power user menu. Once it’s open, right-click the top border and select Properties. On the Options tab, make sure the Use legacy console box at the bottom is unchecked (it should be by default). Then go to the Colors tab, and at the bottom, you can adjust the opacity slider to get the transparency effect you want....
The same functionality to speed up your laptop exists in Windows 11, but it’s got a new name (and a new location). If you want to make your laptop faster using Windows 11 power mode, here’s what you’ll need to do. Using Windows 11 Power Mode Out of the box, a Windows 11 laptop is set to provide as good a battery life as possible—performance comes second. This can be good for all-day laptop use if you’re just browsing the web and doing word processing....
With Collections, you can organize quizzes for each class or term, surveys for customers or employees, and forms for sign-ups or registrations. However you want to group your forms, Collections in Microsoft Forms makes it easy. How to Create a Collection in Microsoft Forms If you want to create a collection in Microsoft Forms: Add Forms to a Microsoft Teams Collection Once you create a Collection, you can quickly add surveys, quizzes, or forms....
This is done, so everyone has consistent access to resources no matter the device or location. Admins can also regulate who has access to directories in a network share to keep data safe. Even if you are not in a complex network environment (your home network), you can also use Mapped Network drives to store, access, and retrieve data on another computer, home server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device....
And with Windows 10 version 1709, Microsoft added the ability to monitor your GPU use. You can monitor a few things, including an app’s GPU usage, an app’s video memory use, and overall GPU resource usage. Monitor GPU Performance on Windows 10 To monitor the performance of your graphics card, open Task Manager. Either right-click the taskbar and choose Task Manager or hit the Windows key and type: task manager and hit Enter....
By default, Thunderbird 3’s message pane header takes up a whopping three lines, plus all that room for buttons. We can put an end to that. Hide Header Information in Thunderbird 3 If you have just a massive amount of junk in your message’s header pane, then it’s likely that you’ve accidentally enabled Thunderbird to show all header information. Luckily, this is a very quick fix. Simply click View > Headers > Normal....
What exactly is a repair upgrade, though? It is simply a way to perform a fresh install of Windows 10 without deleting your apps, files, and settings. In this article, we take a quick run through the process of performing a repair upgrade. Perform a Repair Upgrade Using your Windows 10 Install Disc What are the benefits of a Repair Upgrade? Apart from preserving your personal files, apps, and settings, a repair upgrade can repair stubborn problems such as a corrupt Windows Installer service, Windows Update issues, registry entries, and corrupt system files....
Important information about deleting your Hotmail, Outlook, and Windows Live Microsoft accounts Visit the Microsoft Billing service before closing or deleting your Microsoft Account (Hotmail, Windows Live, and Outlook.com accounts). If a live subscription is active, it will block you from permanently closing your account.Hotmail, Windows Live, and Outlook.com accounts are not considered “Microsoft Accounts.” You can’t close just the Hotmail account without closing the entire Windows Live, aka Microsoft Account....
Showing the Downloads button only when necessary saves room on the toolbar, which is helpful if you have a smaller screen or want to make the browser window smaller. Today we’ll show you how to access your downloads without the button and two ways to show the Downloads button on the toolbar permanently. Access Downloads Through the Firefox Menu You can access your downloads using the Firefox menu. We’ll show you how in case you decide you don’t want to show the Downloads button on the toolbar....
You can get Spybot Anti-Beacon for free from their website. The first thing I noticed is that during the setup of Spybot Anti-Beacon there is an option to “refresh immunization” every time the operating system reboots. This is an important feature because Microsoft has been known to undo some of the privacy protections users have put in place whenever a major update is pushed through to Windows 10. I haven’t had Spybot Anti-Beacon installed long enough to confirm this works, but assuming it does it is a nice touch for a free software tool....
If you are working with a replacement receiver as I am – if you plug in the receiver and turn on the mouse, that won’t work. If you try to add devices from the control panel, that doesn’t work either. With these darn mouses, you’re almost always going to be required to use Logitech’s custom connection software. Step 1 On Windows, you can use either the SetPoint Logitech Mouse and Keyboard software or the Logitech Connection Utility....
Although it might seem obvious to some, if you’ve never redeemed a code before from the Apple App store, it can be a little tricky so we appreciate this great question! There’s a couple of ways to do it on your device or via iTunes on your computer. Let’s take a look! The easiest way to redeem a code for an app is directly on your device. Launch the iTunes App Store on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch....
You’d think that simply accessing that contact’s profile would provide you with a link to get rid of them, but it doesn’t. Here’s how to properly remove a connection you no longer want. Remove LinkedIn Connection Log in to your account and select Contacts on the top menu of your LinkedIn homepage. Then click Connections. On the next page, use search and/or filters to find the contact you want to remove....
With this in mind, Microsoft added a new feature to the calendar in Outlook for Microsoft 365 to accommodate this. You can have your events start late or end early which lets you build travel time into the schedule. Those attendees with back-to-back meetings will surely appreciate it! How to Set the Option to Start Late or End Early This handy feature is one that you can set up so that it’s available when you need it....
Intended to help people keep daytime and evening hours straight anywhere in the world, time zones don’t really matter to a computer. It’s usually best to set your Linux time zone to match yours or the one most of your users observe. Fortunately, it’s easy to configure the time zone on Linux even after installation. Here’s how. Why Does the Time Zone Matter in Linux? There are a number of tasks that Linux handles according to a schedule....
How to Create and Manage Time Machine Backups in macOS Before you perform a Time Machine backup, you will need an external hard disk with enough space to back up your entire Mac along with space for future needs. External drives are really cheap these days and you don’t need anything fancy; a USB 3.0 mechanical drive is recommended. You can get drives with 2 TBs or more for $70, sometimes even less....
Set Up, Use and Troubleshoot Handoff on macOS and iOS How does Handoff work? The ingredients are quite novel: Bluetooth and your iCloud account are all that you need. Your Mac should be running a minimum of OS X Yosemite, version 10.10 (sorry, no Windows support) and the latest version of iOS on your Apple devices. Apple also requires at least Bluetooth 4.0 LE in order to use Handoff. Of course, none of this would be possible without the Internet since it’s the glue that brings it all together....
