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Windows 10 includes an option to hide all the icons on your desktop that’s easy to find. But if you want to hide only a few icons, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. Here’s how. How to Show or Hide System Desktop Icons Before we get into hiding regular files and folders on the desktop, it’s worth noting that Windows 10 includes a dedicated panel that lets you hide and unhide system icons such as your user folder, This PC, Recycle Bin, and Network....

Like all personal computers, a PC running the Ubuntu desktop operating system must be turned off now and then. Shutting down Ubuntu is easy, and you have several methods at your disposal for a safe end to operation. How to Power Off Ubuntu in the Desktop The conventional way to shut down Ubuntu is in GNOME, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu. If you’re a recent convert from Windows or Mac, though, you won’t find the option where you’d expect....

It can be frustrating when you need to log into a site on a different device or browser but you’ve lost the password. Luckily, if you’ve previously stored that password using Safari on iPhone or iPad, you can easily retrieve it. Here’s how. First, launch “Settings,” which can usually be found on the first page of your Home screen or on your Dock. Scroll down the list of Settings options until you see “Passwords & Accounts....

Microsoft Word has made it incredibly easy to track the changes made to any document and to restore previous versions. We’re going to show you how to view and restore previous versions of a Word document. To use this method, you’re going to need an active Microsoft 365 subscription. This is a requirement because Microsoft Word enables version history only when files are saved to OneDrive. Fortunately, you get 1TB of OneDrive storage along with your Microsoft 365 subscription....

RELATED: The Best TV Shows on Netflix in 2022 I May Destroy You Play Video Star and creator Michaela Coel drew from her own experience of sexual assault for this powerful series about a writer dealing with the aftermath of being raped. Coel also wrote and co-directed all 12 episodes, charting the journey of main character Arabella as she processes her trauma, contemplates revenge, and attempts to move on with her life....

No one likes internet downtime. It can make you feel completely crippled in your ability to work or communicate, control your home, or monitor your security system. But in those situations, how do you tell who’s to blame? If It’s Not You, It’s Them As remote work and smart home setups become more prevalent, our tolerance for connection failure is shrinking fast. Connection loss is a common intermittent occurrence, but what do you do when the problem becomes incessant and unmanageable?...

One of the more powerful, but seldom used functions of Excel is the ability to very easily create automated tasks and custom logic within macros. Macros provide an ideal way to save time on predictable, repetitive tasks as well as standardize document formats – many times without having to write a single line of code. If you are curious what macros are or how to actually create them, no problem – we will walk you through the entire process....

Microsoft dropped Internet Explorer from Windows 11, instead only making it accessible through ‘IE Mode’ on the new Edge browser. Now the company is preparing to remove it from some builds of Windows 10, too. Microsoft confirmed again last month that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022 — two days from the publication of this article. The update will be rolled out to Windows 10 version 20H2 and later, but server and enterprise editions of Windows 10 are unaffected....

Discover the DeskMate Difference In the early 1980s, IBM PC compatible computers were not very user-friendly. To use MS-DOS, you needed to memorize typed commands that didn’t immediately make sense if you weren’t already used to them. Meanwhile, computers like the Apple Macintosh made computing as easy as point-and-click with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and a mouse. Since the debut of the TRS-80 Model I in 1977, Tandy marketed most of its PCs toward a mainstream consumer audience—one that might stop by a neighborhood Radio Shack retail store....

Are you embarking on a weight loss journey and want to regularly track your progress and learn about your Body Mass Index (BMI) and lean muscle mass? Or, do you just want a higher-tech scale that will provide more health metrics than your normal scale? It’s important to figure out your goals, so you have a better idea of which smart bathroom scale is best for you. Many smart bathroom scales can sync up with fitness trackers or accompanying apps....

Devices with Windows 11 SE are targeted at the education market, where affordable devices are even more desirable. Chromebooks are ridiculously popular in schools, so it makes sense for Microsoft to want to claim that large market. Previously, Microsoft tried to take over the education and affordable PC market with S Mode, but the stripped-down version of Windows didn’t take off in the way the company hoped. In reality, S Mode just made things difficult, and it seems Microsoft is taking a different approach with the Windows 11 SE....

A 400 Bad Request Error occurs when a request sent to the website server is incorrect or corrupt, and the server receiving the request can’t understand it. Occasionally, the problem is on the website itself, and there’s not much you can do about that. But most of the time, the problem is one you might be able to solve—maybe you typed the address wrong, or maybe your browser cache is causing problems....

Multi-Dimensional Sound DTS:X is an audio codec that was introduced in 2015 for cinemas and home theaters. It is essentially a competitor to Dolby Atmos, another surround sound format. The codec attempts to mimic the real-world sound experience through object-based audio and surround sound speaker systems. Object-based audio is a mixing technology in which sound elements are mapped to positions in a 3D field. It comes with metadata that tells a receiver how the sound elements should be reproduced....

What Is a Software Thread? A software thread is a sequence of instructions that are processed by a CPU. It’s the basic unit of programmed instructions managed by the scheduler. The scheduler is a component of the operating system that allocated hardware resources to the various types of software running on a computer. Every application running on your computer exists as one or more processes. Threads are effectively segments of these processes sent to the CPU for execution....

What Is Lossless Audio? Most digital music is encoded with “lossy” codecs like AAC and MP3. To save space, lossy compression discards data that is deemed less important. Depending on how severe the compression is, audio quality can suffer greatly particularly in the high and low ends (treble and bass). Lossy compression trades overall recording quality in order to use less space or bandwidth (the amount of data used while streaming)....

What Happened With Microsoft Power Apps? Essentially, the Microsoft Power Apps platform defaulted to making data publicly accessible instead of keeping the data private by default, as discovered by Upguard and reported by Wired. Unfortunately, this meant that anyone looking to quickly get a web app up and running with these APIs would need to manually enable security, rather than the other way around. “The UpGuard Research team can now disclose multiple data leaks resulting from Microsoft Power Apps portals configured to allow public access – a new vector of data exposure,” Upguard said in a blog post....

Not everyone buys a Mac to solely run macOS. The bad news is that as of November 2021, native Linux support on Apple Silicon isn’t yet possible. Progress is being made, however, so let’s take a look at the Linux on Apple Silicon story so far. Linux on Apple Silicon: An Uphill Struggle Prior to November 2020, Apple used 64-bit x86 Intel processors in all of its Mac computers. These used the same architecture as most commercially-available Windows and Linux machines....

Ad blocker uBlock Origin “can no longer exist” if a proposed change to Chrome goes through. That’s according to Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, in a comment on Chromium’s bug tracker. As spotted by The Register, Google engineers are proposing this change in the Chromium project’s bug tracker. Chromium is the open-source browser that forms the basis for Google Chrome, Opera, and soon Microsoft Edge....

According to Bleeping Computer, DuckDuckGo saw an impressive search volume increase of 46.4%. The report says DuckDuckGo received 23.6 billion total search queries with a daily average of 79 million search queries by the end of December 2020. In 2021, the total number of search queries rose to 34.6 billion, and the daily searches jumped to 100 million per day. This is a clear sign that at least some internet users are concerned about privacy, as they’re using a privacy-focused search engine....