When Should You Use a VPN? VPNs forward your traffic, making you appear as if you’re browsing from somewhere you’re not. They do this while creating an encrypted tunnel that hides your browsing habits from local network providers and your internet service provider. This makes VPNs great for circumventing regional restrictions, as well as partially hiding your identity online—though note we say “partially,” something we’ll get into more below. This makes VPNs tools with a fairly specific use, they’re no panacea for all your online ills....

Right-click on a file: And up pops a nice dialog that you can use to easily drop a file into the right directory. Install Just download, unzip, and double-click on the registry files. You can choose to use the copy to, move to, or both. Download Copy To / Move To Registry Tweak Note: We’ve written about the manual way to do this before. This tip has been around for many years and also works on Windows XP....

Photo by Vitor P If you were subjected to the annoying ad, we’re sorry, and this time it’s really not going to happen again. We’ve disabled the offending advertiser and won’t do business with them until they find a way to leave control of the ads completely in our hands so we can make sure it doesn’t happen in the future—or we just won’t do business with them period....

Instead of going through all that hassle, you can simply use a great utility called Double Driver to help restoring drivers the easy way. Using Double Driver After installation go ahead and launch Double Driver and click on the Scan button to begin detecting the drivers. Once the scan is complete you can choose specific drivers to save or select them all. To back up the drivers just press the Backup button....

I had always thought this was universally understood, but it turns out that a lot of people are unaware of how it works. There are two options, the default right-click menu… or QuickEdit mode. We’ll explain both. Enable QuickEdit Mode Right-click anywhere on the title bar and then select Properties. (Or use Alt+Space P) On the Options tab, check the box for “QuickEdit Mode” and then close the dialog....

The simple answer to the question is yes. We can make hyperlinks pretty much anywhere in a Word document. Just highlight the text on the document you want to create a hyperlink for, Right Click and scroll down to Hyperlink. This will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box where you will notice the highlighted text above. Make sure Existing File or Web Page is selected and type in the web address you want to link to and press OK....

In case you are confused about what we’re talking about… on the Processes tab in Task Manager there’s a button called “Show processes from all users” which will re-open Task Manager in order to show all the processes, which can be annoying if you need to do it a lot. Create the Task Manager Shortcut Right-click on the desktop or elsewhere, and then choose New \ Shortcut from the menu....

Syntax: Provides this output(will vary based on your machine): Adobe Active File MonitorAdobe LM ServiceApplication Layer Gateway ServiceAti HotKey PollerAutomatic UpdatesBackground Intelligent Transfer ServiceBluetooth ServiceCisco Systems, Inc. VPN ServiceCOM+ Event SystemComputer BrowserCryptographic ServicesDCOM Server Process LauncherDHCP ClientDistributed Link Tracking ClientDNS ClientError Reporting ServiceEvent LogFTP PublishingHelp and SupportHID Input ServiceHP WMI InterfaceIIS AdminInfrared MonitorLogical Disk ManagerMachine Debug ManagerMicrosoft Search

Extensoft helps you avoid the annoyances by offering an unofficial Windows upgrade. Extensions for Windows includes Enhanced Windows Explorer, Desktop Recorder, Keyboard Shortcut Manager, and Disk Analyzer utilities just to name a few. This is a handy package of very useful, easy to access upgrades that can increase your productivity. Lets look at some of the extensions and some of their stand-alone utilities which are available for free. After installing the Extension For Windows package you decide which components you want to include and update them....

If you are tired of the monotonous looks of Windows XP and even jealous of your friend’s Windows Vista, then there are some easy ways you can transform your Windows XP visually to something that is more appealing and interesting. We have selected some of the best software that can change the visuals of Windows XP entirely into something more appealing and interesting. Editor’s note: These “theme packs” will automatically make a large number of changes to your system, including hacking Windows to enable custom themes....

Using Duplicate File Finder This works with Windows 98 through Windows 7 so is a great way to clean up new and legacy systems. It has a nicely laid out interface for scanning and identifying duplicate files on a single computer or an entire network. Add or remove folders to check in the folder screen then start a scan. It will scan the main folders and all subfolders for duplicates....

I came across this exact situation the other day, where I was getting the error “Event Viewer cannot open the event log or custom view. Verify that Event Log service is running. The data is invalid (13)”… but the error only happened when trying to open the System log, while the Application log was working just fine, and restarting Event Log or rebooting didn’t help. What you can do in this situation is clear the system log, saving it to a file in the process....

It looks like Google is hard at work on gaming Chromebooks, as there are quite a few signs that indicate that these devices are coming. Here’s why we think Google is making Chromebooks designed for PC gaming. 9To5Google spotted three new codenames for possible Chromebook models with RGB keyboards. And if there’s one thing we know PC gamers love, it’s brightly colored lights on their devices. To go along with that, there’s a new flag in Chrome OS that enables RGB lights on a keyboard, which further lends credence to the idea that there will be some new gaming-focused Chromebook devices with support for RGB lighting....

Spotlight Everything You can trigger Spotlight search with Command+Space or by clicking on the Spotlight icon in your menu bar (top-right corner of the screen, toggled via System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar). Not only is this a powerful search engine, it allows you to access most applications and preference panes in a few keystrokes. Launching applications with Spotlight is so much faster than browsing the Applications folder or triggering Launchpad, and arguably quicker than moving your cursor to the dock and clicking on a shortcut....

First you’ll add the System.Net namespace to your using section: Example of code to get address from hostname: This was tested in C# 2.0.

Google confirmed this week on Twitter that it had removed the app permissions section on Google Play Store app listing pages, but the company “heard your feedback” and has started to bring back the section. — Android Developers (@AndroidDev) July 21, 2022 Back in the early days of Android phones and tablets, the Play Store prominently displayed the full list of permissions an app would request — including access to networking, your contacts, calls, Bluetooth, etc....

GreenPrint is designed to save printer ink, reduce unwanted pages, help reduce environmental damage, and save you money by catching pages before they go to the printer and optimize them to reduce waste. Installing GreenPrint Before installing you will need .Net Framework installed on your PC for GreenPrint to work. If you don’t it will download and install it for you. Most people should already have this installed, but it’s good to know that it’s a requirement....

What Is the Metaverse? The first thing we should make clear is that this technology is aimed at the Metaverse, not Facebook. In October 2021, Facebook changed the name of its company to Meta and announced that it had started work on something called the Metaverse. (The actual site you use to connect with friends and relatives is still named Facebook.) The Metaverse would be a world based on virtual reality, where your avatar—a digital version of you—could walk around and interact with other people and other things you’d associate with social media....

What to Know About Twitch Usernames and Display Names Let’s make this clear first: your Twitch display name is just the capitalized (or non-capitalized) version of your Twitch username. So for example, if your username is Mahesh, your display name must be Mahesh but with any letter in the name being lowercase or uppercase. The accepted display names include mAhesh, MAHESH, mahESH, and so on. When you change your Twitch username, your profile URL also changes....

We’ll show you a few templates you can download for a jumpstart on your survey as well as how to create your questionnaire from scratch. You can then print, send, or share your survey, like any other Word document. Microsoft Survey Templates for Word Because a survey is a fillable form and Microsoft offers its own Forms application, you won’t currently find many survey templates for Word direct from Microsoft....