Why is UAC important? UAC or User Account Control setting makes sure that no program can run with admin privileges unless allowed by the user. It prevents potentially harmful programs from making changes to your computer. It is best to keep this setting to default and not make any changes unless extremely necessary. Remove the blue & yellow shield from an icon The blue and yellow shield is an Icon Overlay....

How to remove or reset Acer laptop BIOS Password If you are looking for ways to remove or reset your Acer laptop BIOS password, you can do it in the following ways. Let’s get into the details of each method to reset or remove Acer laptop BIOS Password. 1] Remove the password using the BIOS Security features One of the non-harming ways to remove an Acer laptop BIOS password is to change it and leave the new password blank in the BIOS Security features....

What is Text Direction in PowerPoint? The Text Direction feature in PowerPoint changes the orientation of the text to various positions such as Horizontal, Stacked, Rotate all text 90 degrees, and Rotate all text 270 degrees. How to rotate or change Text Direction in PowerPoint You can change the PowerPoint text direction and make it go from right to left. You can change the orientation of the text to various positions such as Horizontal, Stacked, Rotate all text 90 degrees, and Rotate all text 270 degrees....

Schedule a Windows Defender scan To schedule periodic full scans in Windows Defender that will run in the background and safeguard your Windows from malware, you have to make use of the built-in Task Scheduler. Press Windows Key + R combination and put taskschd.msc in the Run dialog box. Click OK. On the Task Scheduler window, in the left pane, navigate to Task Scheduler -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Windows Defender....

How to search Windows Registry Regedit lets you search using the Find feature in the Windows Registry. To access it, you have to click on Edit menu and select Find. The Find box will let you search for items in the Windows Registry, and this includes Keys, Values, and Data. You can also set it to match whole strings only. Hitting the F3 key will take you to all the found searches, one after the other....

Set Linux Distribution version to WSL1 or WSL2 WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) is a new version of the architecture in WSL that changes how Linux distributions interact with Windows. WSL 2 has the primary goals of increasing file system performance and adding full system call compatibility. Each Linux distribution can run as WSL 1 or as WSL 2, and can be switched between at any time. WSL 2 is a major overhaul of the underlying architecture and uses virtualization technology and a Linux kernel to enable its new features....

Microsoft Edge for iOS is one of the best browsers as it offers more features than the in-built one. Previously, an iOS user couldn’t change the default browser because of internal restrictions. However, many people often want to opt-out of Safari. If you are one of them, now you can change your default browser on Windows and Mac. What happens when you set Edge as the default browser on iOS When you click on a link in a document or email, Safari browser opens the webpage, by default....

To set up Work Folders in Windows 10, you can open Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Work Folders and click on Set up Work Folders. But if you are using Windows 7 and are looking forward to using this feature, you will now be able to do it, after applying this update. Work Folders in Windows 7 As we had mentioned in our earlier post, Microsoft was planning to release an add-on client for Windows 7 and an App for the iPad too....

Besides the extensions, there are many plugins that are not visible by default. The Settings menu does show you how many pages are running in the background but that is not the overall count of plugins and extensions. Some extensions are loaded per tab thereby slowing down your browsing speed. Note that the performance of other applications on your machine can also slow down Google Chrome. To fully optimize Google Chrome, you may need to identify such apps and either remove them or set their process priority to “Below Normal” or “Low”....

The WebP image format is natively supported in Google Chrome, and other web browsers such as Firefox, Edge, and Opera, along with other tools and software libraries. Google switched over to the WebP image format in order to reduce the size of photos on the web. The idea is to help websites load faster than they do now in a bid to give users a better experience, especially those who do not have a high-speed internet connection....

Many people sign up a Twitter account just to communicate with their beloved ones like friends and family. Minding its own privacy and safety, they prefer to keep their tweet protected. If you’re also using Twitter with the same purpose, you might need to stop people from following you on Twitter. How to stop People from Following you on Twitter Below are the steps you can take to prevent other people from following you on Twitter: The above steps are described in more detail here: To get it started, you first need to do is go to your Twitter account’s home page....

LinkedIn is one of the best job search sites where professionals often post media files, including videos. The problem starts when this site begins playing videos as you scroll through the timeline. People use videos for various purposes, including promotions, reviews, etc. However, if you like to stop videos from playing on sites like LinkedIn, you should follow this tutorial. Stop videos from playing automatically on LinkedIn To disable autoplay of videos on LinkedIn and stop them from playing automatically, follow these steps- Let’s check out these steps in detail....

Switch back to the old Facebook layout Well, the answer to that is yes, and from within this article, we are going to explain how to get it done, and quickly too. The changes were made in September 2020, which is not too long ago. The new redesign is a welcome addition because Facebook was looking quite ancient to many users of the platform. Now, we should point out that when the redesign was in its beta stages, Facebook offered an option in the Settings are to rollback to the original design, but that is no longer possible....

However, if you want to take the screenshot of Lock Screen in Windows 11/10, without using a screen capture software then how will you do that? Take screenshot of Lock Screen in Windows 11/10 The concept of Lock Screen was initially introduced in Windows 8 OS, and it is carried forward in the next version of the OS including Windows 11/10. A typical Lock Screen shows several useful details such as date, time, battery status, network connectivity and a customizable background wallpaper, with additional information....

While GoPro an epitome for action photography, it is nowadays used by even casual users and bloggers as well. The quality of videos, videos and overall features are close to a production camera. It is possible to mound the GoPro camera in all impossible scenarios. That’s makes it incredibly handy for adventure photography. To import all the GoPro videos and photos, all you need to do is install the GoPro app and connect your camera to the computer....

How to turn off or disable Num Lock on Windows laptop Once you have downloaded the installer, follow the setup wizard to install NumBlock and also configure it to start with Windows. This freeware tool utilizes the keybd_event method in Windows user32.dll to change Num Lock state, along with periodic monitoring of the Num Lock key using the Control.IsKeyLocked(Keys.NumLock) parameter of the .NET Controls Object found in System.Windows.Forms. Once the installation process is complete, restart or run the app from the Start menu....

How to turn off word count in Microsoft Word Follow the steps below to disable Word Count in Microsoft Word: It’s that simple! How do you check Word Count on the keyboard? Combination keys are the use of one or more keys pressed together to give a specific result. To open the Word Count dialog box, press the shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + G. How do I turn on word count in Word?...

Turn On/Off & Clear Clipboard History in Windows 11/10 Earlier, there was no feature to turn off the history of the clipboard. You had to use other ways to clear clipboard history. Microsoft did listen to the feedback and it’s here. Steps to turn on/Off Windows 11/10 Clipboard History: It means that we are turning off the Cloud Clipboard feature. The default clipboard will hold one last item, and will not display the data on the clipboard....

How to Turn On or Off Sticky Keys in Windows 11/10 If pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL is an acrobatic feat, you can turn on and set up Sticky Keys. With Sticky Keys, you can hit one key at a time in a keyboard shortcut. You can even set it to make a noise, so you know it’s working. This way, you can press a modifier key and have it remain active until another key is pressed....

Information Rights Management in Office The beauty of the Information Rights Management Service is that once the permissions for the file have been restricted using it, the file access and usage restrictions are then strictly enforced and will be always there, as the permissions are contained within the file itself. IRM can help organizations to enforce their corporate policy governing the control and dissemination of confidential or proprietary information. Simply, Microsoft Office allows organizations to keep their confidential and classified information to themselves....