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I went ahead and installed CC Cleaner v 2.06 with the Yahoo toolbar just for the fun of it. Before doing this I set my default browser to IE 8 Beta 1. Sure you it will allow you to run CC Cleaner from the browser … but how necessary is this? I have never been a fan of extra toolbars and Yahoo’s is certainly no exception. I suppose if you are already a huge fan of Yahoo’s services and want to keep dibs on everything while you surfing the web, you might want to install the Yahoo toolbar, there certainly is plenty to choose from....

Note that this will only work for computers that are configured to login to a domain, not for Home editions. Disable Cached Logons Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key: On the right-hand pane you’ll see a key called cachedlogonscount, which you can change to 0 in order to disable logging in when not connected to the domain....

You should note that this will disable all balloon notifications, so proceed with caution. Click on Start \ Run and type in regedit Now we will navigate to this path in your registry. On the right pane right click on an open area and choose New \ DWORD Value You will see New Value #1. Change this to EnableBalloonTips. Next double click the new registry entry you created. In the Value Data field set it to 0 (zero)....

Installation WordWeb is easy to install on your computer (or as a portable app on a flash drive). All screenshots for the install process are shown since you will need to make some choices based on your needs during the installation. Notice the usage limitation shown in the EULA. Once the 30 day period has passed, you will be prompted to specify your status concerning “ the number of flights that you take in a 12 month period”....

The game starts out with simple objectives using basic physic principles. Throughout the game the goal is to get the ball to the star .. sounds simple right? Once you start getting into the game tasks are more difficult allowing more creative was to accomplish the objective. Also included is a cool level maker for creating your own crazy and challenging levels. Also, you can upload these levels to The Playground where you can download other user’s levels too....

Most of the examples you’ll find online will show you something like this: That’s all fine and good, except that won’t work for our Windows Forms application without changing the type of the project to console, etc. Thankfully, this is completely unnecessary, because you can simply do this: And you can use this anywhere in your application, you aren’t just restricted to using it in the main() method like in a console application....

In an interview with The Register, NVIDIA’s CFO, Colette Kress, discussed all sorts of things, including the chip shortage. “We continue to try and get more supply for the latest quarter. But at the same time, we are procuring supply commitments for longer term. In many cases they can be for a year out, some of the times they may be for multiple years out,” Kress said. “We are working, as we’ve mentioned, in terms of longer-term, getting that supply....

Most of us use our computers in a shared in environment with our family members, friends etc. But sometimes we may want set some permissions so that we can actually restrict access to certain folders which do not lie in our My Documents, My Pictures etc. In this case when you can restrict access to a particular folder which could be any where on your hard drive. Set File or Folder Security...

How Blocks Work To figure out how to get past online censorship blocks, let’s first take a look at how they work. Right now, you’ve opened a connection from your device to your internet service provider (ISP), which in turn connected to How-To Geek’s IP address. You can read more about how all this works in our article on how the internet works. To block our site, you would somehow need to cut off access from your ISP to our IP address....

We’ll begin the process on the Android side. The companion app is called “Link to Windows” and it’s available from the Google Play Store on your Android phone or tablet. Select Samsung Galaxy devices already have this app installed. Once installed, open the app and tap “Link Your Phone and PC” to get started. Next, we’ll move over to your Windows 11 PC. Open the Phone Link app and click “Get Started....

By quoting text, you make a piece of text stand out in your Discord messages. There are options to quote specific text in a text string as well as quote entire lines of text on this platform. We’ll show you how to do just that. Note that the steps to quote text are the same for both Discord on desktop and Discord on mobile. RELATED: How to Quote Someone In WhatsApp...

Start the remote desktop client from the command line or the Start/Run dialog with this command: You can now select the server you wish to connect to, and you will connect to the server console session instead of a seperate session. If you want to see the usage dialog, type mstsc /?

How to Restart The Easy Way The easiest way to restart a Mac is by using the menu bar at the top of the screen. To do so, click the Apple logo in the upper-left corner of the screen. In the menu that appears, select “Restart.” If you see any pop-up confirmation messages, click “Restart” again. Your Mac will close currently running apps, and the screen will momentarily go black. When you see the Apple logo on the screen, the startup process will begin....

If you use Instagram and iPad, you’ve probably wondered why there isn’t a native iPad application for the popular social network. As it turns out, Instagram doesn’t think the iPad is popular enough to justify its own app. Popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee tweeted about the lack of a native Instagram app for iPad, which actually led to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri saying that the iPad isn’t big enough to justify a native app....

Installing AfterStep is a simple process. You will want to make sure that you have selected the alternate install repositories. Open a terminal window and use the following command: Once the install is complete, log out and click on the Options button in the lower left hand corner: You will see a menu listing all of the window managers installed on your system. Select AfterStep from the menu, and continue to log in....

Note: You will need to be using a recent trunk build of Chrome or a Dev Channel release. Get Chrome Ready for Extensions First things first, you will need to do a little bit of prep work to get your installation of Chrome ready for extensions. Locate the shortcut(s) for Chrome and right click on them. Select “Properties”. Once you have clicked through, you will see the “Properties” window with the “Shortcut” tab displayed....

Intel hyped up its new chip, which it calls a “blockchain accelerator,” by focusing on both performance and energy efficiency. In the announcement for its new chip, Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior vice president, says, “We expect that our circuit innovations will deliver a blockchain accelerator that has over 1000x better performance per watt than mainstream GPUs for SHA-256 based mining.” That’s a substantial amount of currency generated per watt of power used compared to graphics cards, which require significant energy to run....

Most Content on an 8K TV Is Upscaled Upscaling is the process of taking lower resolution content and optimizing it for display on a display with higher pixel density. Old upscaling techniques used rudimentary pixel doubling, to simply “blow up” the image. Since this content was never designed for larger, more pixel-dense displays in the first place results were usually disappointing. Over the years upscaling techniques have improved significantly, with the latest technology leaning heavily on machine learning....

One of the first things I did when I started using Outlook 2007 was to change the filter to only show the tasks for the current day, or if you want, you can also show tasks that are overdue as well. To change this setting, just right-click on the “Arranged By” column and then choose Custom from the menu. Note: You could just click the Filter button and then change the Time drop-down on the Tasks menu to “due” and the second drop-down to “today”....

The only problem is that when you click the close button on the VMware window, you get a prompt saying “Some virtual machines are still powered on. You can continue to run these virtual machines in the background, suspend them for later use, or power them off now.“ I always want my virtual machines to run in the background! You can disable that window by just telling VMware to always run virtual machines in the background by going to Edit \ Preferences....