To get to the indexing service panel, just type index into the start menu search box, and hit enter. In the Indexing Options window, click the Modify button On the next screen, click Show all Locations Now we can actually figure out which folders we want to index. Just put a checkbox next to the locations you want to index. Note that you should NOT index your entire computer, because it will make indexing slow....

There’s a lot going on in the world of smart tech lately, and the biggest news is the just-around-the-corner release of Matter—a connectivity standard that aims to be the grand unifying thread that links smart home gear together. It’s only appropriate, then, that Apple would take a moment during their 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote to both give a shoutout to its ongoing support of the Matter standard and unveil a significantly updated Home app to show a renewed support for smart home initiatives....

Earlier this year, Apple revealed its long-awaited self-repair program for iPhones, which turned out to be incredibly complicated and a huge mess. Now the company is expanding that program to include fixing MacBook laptops. Just like the existing program for iPhone, Self Service Repair allows people to fix their devices without taking it to an Apple Store or other authorized repair center. Apple recommends it only for “customers who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices” — if you don’t have much experience, you should probably hand over your dead MacBook to a trained professional instead....

Your Biometrics Can’t Be Changed The biggest problem with using measurements of your body as an authentication system is that you can’t easily change them if that information is hacked. When your password information is inevitably leaked or cracked, all you have to do is change your password and the attackers are back to square one. If your biometric data is compromised, you can’t exactly change your fingerprints or iris patterns....

They forgot the stat about how many friends hate you for taking so many quizzes… Blocking Individual Applications If your significant other is completely addicted to some retarded Flash game on Facebook, you’ve probably ended up with a ton of messages about every tiny accomplishment in the game. The easy option is to simply click Hide –> Hide Application. This sometimes works… but with the amount of nonsense on Facebook, you’ll quickly be overrun with new games on a daily basis, and you’ll have to hide every single one of them, defeating the whole purpose of reading this article....

What Is TDP? The Thermal Design Power (or sometimes Profile) is essentially the heat budget of a processor. It’s designed to generate up to that amount and no more. TDP isn’t quite the same as the amount of power that a processor like a GPU uses, but it’s in that ballpark. What TDP is really about is cooling, If a GPU has a TDP of 100W, then it needs a cooling solution that can handle 100W of heat energy and move it out of the system quickly enough to prevent GPU throttling or even an emergency shutdown....

The Acrobat.com Beta was launched last year and is where you can store up to 5GB of data and share with others. You can access it from a browser, a desktop application, and now with the Outlook Add-in. Installing the Acrobat.com Add-in Installing the plug-in is fast and easy using the installation wizard. You might have to update to the shared Add-in support for .Net Framework 2.0 (KB908002). Just follow through the wizard, no special steps required…...

Setup Getting started with Win32Whois is extremely simple. There is no install process to deal with, just place the exe file in a location of your choice and create a shortcut (terrific!). When you start Win32Whois, this is what you will see. To get started, enter the domain address that you are curious about and click “Go”. For our example, we entered “www.howtogeek.com”. The results came up very quickly and as you can see by the scrollbar, there was quite a bit of information returned (very nice!...

Mozilla has updated Firefox to version 97.0.2 to fix two active vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild. If you’re a Firefox user, you’re going to want to update as soon as possible to make sure your browser is secure. The exploits are CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486. Mozilla described the exploits on its website. “Removing an XSLT parameter during processing could have led to an exploitable use-after-free. We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” is how the company describes CVE-2022-26485....

If you don’t have one, you can create a Windows Vista repair disk using our guide. Boot off the Windows Vista DVD and then click Next at the first prompt: You should see a link in the lower left-hand side for “Repair your computer” The installation process will attempt to find your Vista installation directory. If there’s more than one in the list, select the correct one and then use the Next button again....

The answer to our troubles is a small utility named OpenWide that sits in the system tray and forces these unruly dialogs to behave. Launch the application after installing it, and you should see a rather ugly new icon appear in your system tray. (You can disable the icon in the setting panel’s Preferences tab). In the placement section you can set the position on the screen as well as the size of the dialog, which I find extremely useful....

The new watches have a lot in common with Samsung’s earlier wearables, with the same round design, Samsung Health integration, and array of health sensors. It’s designed around Samsung Health, but since it runs Wear OS like the Watch 4, you can also use Google Fit or other services instead. You can also use Google Pay instead of Samsung Pay for the same reason — something I’ve done on my Watch 4, since Samsung Pay is clunky to use....

Available Games and How to Play Them The vast majority of these games require an active Netflix subscription, though some are completely free-to-play since they were made to promote a Netflix property (like Stranger Things 3: The Game). Games that require a Netflix subscription state that they are “available exclusively for Netflix members” in the game description. When you download these titles you’ll need to log in with your Netflix account to gain access, which may happen automatically if you’re already logged in to the Netflix app (for Android and iPhone or iPad)....

Here we’ll briefly go over what makes EVs different from gas-powered vehicles and how they work. So, How Do Electric Vehicles Work? When people refer to electric vehicles, they’re usually talking about entirely electric cars powered by a battery. These are sometimes called battery electric vehicles (BEVs). But there are other types of vehicles that could be categorized as EVs, including: Hybrid vehicles Plug-in hybrid vehicles Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs)...

People tend to groan at very long passwords—who enjoys pecking them out using a TV remote or the tiny touchpad on a network printer, after all? But passwords are important: the longer and more complex, the better. Here’s a look at the history of Wi-Fi password length from the beginning of the Wi-Fi standard, and how the maximum length has changed as the security protocols have evolved. If you’re not interested in the history of early Wi-Fi security protocols and passwords, feel free to jump to the last section for a discussion of modern Wi-Fi password requirements....

Linux Packaging Systems In order to allow their users to install software, Linux distributions need a software packaging system. If the distribution is a fork of another established distribution, it’ll usually stick with the packaging system of the older distribution. That’s why Fedora uses RPM packages (which used to stand for RedHat Package Manager) and Ubuntu and its numerous children use DEB packages. DEB is simply short for “Debian.” Other distributions opt to write their own package management system....

In my latest article on Lifehacker, I examined some of the most offensive myths out there regarding PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all: Disabling QoS to Free Up 20% of Bandwidth Make Vista Use Multiple Cores to Speed Up Boot Time Clearing Out Windows Prefetch for Faster Startup Cleaning the Registry Improves Performance Clear Memory by Processing Idle Tasks Clean, Defrag and Boost Your RAM With SnakeOil Memory Optimizer Disabling Shadow Copy/System Restore Improves Performance Enable SuperFetch in Windows XP Disabling Services to Speed Up the Computer...

To pull down the notification shade on Android you have to reach all the way to the very top of the screen. As part of the “One-Handed Mode” suite of features, Pixel phones have the ability to actually swipe down on the bottom of the display to open the notifications. RELATED: How to Enable One-Handed Mode in Android’s Google Keyboard First, swipe down twice from the top of the screen to reveal the Quick Settings menu and tap the gear icon....

This HowTo assumes that you already have an SSH server and know how to connect to it. First, you will go into the Options \ Session Options menu panel and click on SSH forwarding. Click the Add button, and you should fill in the dialog like this: You can name the connection whatever you want, and you are free to use a different port. The key thing that you will need to do is check the Dynamic forwarding using SOCKS 4 or 5 checkbox....

It may seem counterintuitive to use a smartphone to disconnect. The truth is smartphones aren’t responsible for this situation, it’s how we use them that’s to blame. You can “touch grass” without buying a trendy minimalist phone. It’s Not Your Phone’s Fault iPhones and Android devices are simply tools—they are not inherently bad or good. They can enable us to do truly useful, life-changing things like GPS navigation or meaningless social media scrolling....