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Microsoft Edge has had a mixed track record lately, adding some helpful features alongside unnecessary (or even harmful) bloat. Microsoft Edge 103 is now rolling out, and this time around, most of the focus is on gaming. Microsoft revealed during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase earlier this month that it was working on more game-related features for Edge, which are rolling out with today’s Edge 103 update. There’s a new Gaming tab on the homepage with game recommendations from Xbox Cloud Gaming and random news articles, as well as a new dedicated Games menu with Facebook-style free to play games....

Here’s what the fonts look like without font smoothing: And here’s what they should look like with ClearType enabled: To make sure that ClearType is enabled, you’ll need to open the classic Appearance Settings dialog. Right click on the desktop and choose Personalize. Then click on Window Color and Appearance: If you have Aero enabled, you’ll have to click on “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”. Click on the “Effects…” button and make sure that your computer has the checkbox for font smoothing enabled....

The problem comes in when your local user account has been set to expire the password, because there’s not an obvious place to change that setting in Vista, although it’s easy to do. Note that this problem doesn’t exist in the Home editions of Windows. Open the Local Users and Groups administration panel by typing in lusrmgr.msc into the start menu search box. (or the Run box on XP) Select “Users” in the left hand pane, and then double-click your user account in the list....

The Windows 11 life cycle is in full swing, and Microsoft just announced Insider Preview Build 22557. This build comes with some significant improvements to touch, including five new gestures you can use to navigate the OS. In total, Microsoft is adding five new touch gestures that make performing several actions within the OS quicker and easier. Here are the five new touch gestures Dev channel Insiders can try right now:...

Basically, Alienware showed off an extremely powerful gaming server that sits in your home, an intelligent controller, and some custom software that allows you to play games in a way that’s currently impossible. When it comes together, it lets you seamlessly play a game in one place, pause it, and move to another spot in your home. It also lets multiple people play games at the same time, all without killing your internet too much....

The AutoCopy extension will automatically copy to the clipboard any text you select, and allow you to paste it with a middle click anywhere in Firefox. All you have to do is select the text you want to copy, and it will be copied to the clipboard right away. You’ll notice the new icon in the status bar, which will let you change a few options or open up the full options panel....

Public Blockchains Aren’t Private Public distributed ledger technology is basically a giant transaction history of all the economic activity on a given blockchain that is out in the open for all to see and use at their discretion. Imagine if a major bank like JP Morgan or Wells Fargo published all the transactions happening across all of their accounts for everyone to see who cared to look—and made access to look free to anyone around the entire world....

Reports of random emails from Burger King flooded social media last night and this morning, and multiple staff here at How-To Geek received the message as well. The email is a receipt for an order, except in (seemingly) every case, the order number is blank and there is no information about the pickup location or what was ordered. There are no reports of payment card theft associated with the email — it seems like someone just sent out the blank email template....

You might be surprised to find that you can, with ease even. Although they are usually sold as bundles—which certainly implies that the collection of mesh nodes you get in the box is intended to be used together—you don’t actually have to use all of them. In fact, you could simply plug in one of them and stop there or not purchase a bundle in the first place and pick up a single unit instead....

Folderico is a free utility from Shedko software and is quite easy to use. Launch the program and browse to the folder you want to change the color of. Here you can also put in a custom tooltip for the folder that will be displayed when hovering over it. Next click on Select icon to bring up the multiple choices of colors and styles to choose from. After you choose the look of the folder click on Apply....

What we are changing here is the amount of documents shown in this menu (I changed mine down to 1 for illustration) Manual Registry Tweak Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then navigate down to the following key, creating it if it doesn’t exist. Add a new DWORD 32-bit value named MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane, and then double-click to open it up. To set the value, you’ll first need to change Base to Decimal, and then you can enter any value you want....

Right click anywhere on the desktop and go to New Shortcut. Now in the Create Shortcut window type in “mailto:yourcontact@email.com” of course you will put in your contact’s email. So for instance if I wanted to create on to email The Geek I would put in the following and hit Next. Next name the shortcut something so you will remember what it’s for and click on Finish. Because it is an email and Outlook is my default email client, Vista associates an Outlook style icon for the shortcut....

I thought I understood why iPhone users loved iMessage so much. The closest equivalent for Android is RCS, which does improve text messaging a lot. But iMessage is much more than just better SMS, and it’s not only about blue and green bubbles. RELATED: How to Check if Your Android Smartphone Has RCS My History With iPhones First, I want to explain my perspective. I’ve been using Android devices for over a decade....

Command Syntax Note that there are spaces between rm, {}, and ; Explanation The first argument is the path to the files. This can be a path, a directory, or a wildcard as in the example above. I would recommend using the full path, and make sure that you run the command without the exec rm to make sure you are getting the right results. The second argument, -mtime, is used to specify the number of days old that the file is....

Suse Linux has an amazing set of graphical administration tools that let you perform virtually any system administration task without having to use a command line. The only problem is that there are just so many settings, it’s easy for new users to get lost. To get to this setting, click that green Suse “start” button, and type in user management into the search box, and select the highlighted option below....

The base model Kindle has a 6-inch 167 ppi (pixels per inch) e-ink screen, which mimics the look of ink on paper rather than the LCD or AMOLED screens we usually see on electronics. The battery usually lasts a few weeks on a single charge, like most eReaders, and there’s 8GB of internal storage (which can store thousands of books).

Note: CSMenu comes in exe install file and portable versions. CSMenu – Before and After Here is a quick look at the default Start Menu in our Windows 7 example. Time to get that Classic Menu! Double click the CSMenu exe file to get things started. The install process for CSMenu is quick and straightforward. After finishing the installation, you will see a message window that will say that CSMenu is going to index your Start Menu....

And why does Microsoft tout these as some revolutionary technology to bring us into the next century? I remember downloading a program called Desktop Sidebar back in 2003 for XP. This program did basically the same thing albeit not as graphically elite. At the time it was a pretty cool thing … I think I had that installed for 5 days before growing tired of it. The Clock… yeah we have all seen the clock!...

The team at GRID Studio was generous enough to send me two frames for review. Here’s a closer look at the GRID 1 (first-generation iPhone) and GRID Game Boy Color. But don’t worry, if you’re an Android user, they also have a deconstructed Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, and more. GRID 1: 1st-Generation iPhone As soon as I saw pictures of the GRID 1, a stylized first-generation iPhone, I wanted it on my wall....

Why Headphone Impedance and Sensitivity Matter If you’re like most people, you probably just want to plug your headphones in and start listening. With a standard set of wired earbuds, this is perfectly doable, but as your headphones get larger and more expensive, things get complicated rather quickly. Larger headphones, especially those aimed at audio professionals or audiophiles, often require a headphone amp. If you’re tempted to just buy a headphone amp and call it a day, unfortunately, it’s not that easy....