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When installing Windows 11 Home on a new PC, Microsoft’s website states you’ll need to have an internet connection and a Microsoft account to complete the setup. There won’t be an option for a local account. Here’s how it will work. A Required Microsoft Account at Setup When you first install Windows 11 Home, you’ll be asked to sign in with a Microsoft account during the initial setup process. The installation won’t proceed unless you’re connected to the internet and you link a Microsoft account with Windows 11....

A user on Twitter asked Google about the Pixel 6 fingerprint scanner and why it’s slower than expected. A representative of the company responded and said, “We’re sorry for the hassle. The Pixel 6 fingerprint sensor utilizes enhanced security algorithms. In some instances, these added protections can take longer to verify or require more direct contact with the sensor.” — Made By Google (@madebygoogle) November 6, 2021 The Google representative also pointed to a support page, though the page doesn’t offer much help regarding the fingerprint scanner....

One of Windows 11’s most exciting features is the ability to install Android apps. You can finally use some of your favorite mobile apps on your desktop PC. How did Microsoft make this happen? Let’s take a look. What You’ll Need Android app support didn’t arrive as part of the initial release of Windows 11. As of October 2021, you can only install Android apps if you’re using Windows 11’s beta Insider Preview channel....

How Helicopters Fly We’ll start off with something completely different: helicopters. It might seem like a strange detour, but knowing a bit about how helicopters fly will make understanding drone flight much easier. A typical helicopter has a main rotor and a tail rotor. Other designs do exist, but they all work to control the same forces. This is a very basic explanation of how helicopters fly, but appropriate to our goal when it comes to understanding drone flight....

Things like names, obscure towns or cities, street names, and pet names may not be known by your keyboard. Rather than manually correct the keyboard every time it tries to change those words, you can add them to the “dictionary.” We’ll show you how to do this with Google’s Gboard and Samsung’s keyboard. RELATED: How to Change the Keyboard on Your Android Phone How to Add a Word in Gboard First, we’ll be using Google’s Gboard keyboard....

Comments in Word allow you to provide feedback in a document without changing the text or layout. You can place the cursor in the content or select content (text, images, tables, etc.) and add a comment about that part of the document. When you add a comment to some text in a document and then click away, you may notice that there is no line connecting the comment to the text it corresponds to (as shown on the image below), until you move your mouse over the comment or put the cursor in, or select that text, again....

Thanks to Windows 11, you can save energy, extend a portable PC’s battery life, and lengthen your screen’s lifespan if you configure your monitor or screen to automatically turn off after a certain period of time. Here’s how to set it up. First, launch the Settings app by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or right-click the Start button and select “Settings” in the menu. In Settings, select “System” in the sidebar, then click “Power & Battery....

By default, Google Chrome doesn’t offer a direct way to copy the addresses (URLs) of all open tabs at once. But there’s a workaround for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and we’ll show you how to use it. The Bookmark Workaround While you can’t copy the website addresses of all your open tabs directly, Chrome does allow you to copy the addresses of your bookmarked sites. You can add all your open tabs into a bookmarks folder and then copy the addresses of all bookmarked sites inside the folder....

Booting on Apple Silicon Unfortunately, as of this writing in July 2021, this technique won’t work on new Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 system-on-chip or later. Corellium has already managed to port Linux to run natively on an M1 chip, but the process is much more complicated than simply writing a disk image file to a USB stick. Linux kernel version 5.13 includes support for the new ARM-based chips, so hopefully support for mainstream distros like Ubuntu isn’t too far off....

As your Google Slides presentation develops, you may notice an unnecessary slide or two. When you have superfluous slides, it reduces the overall value of the presentation. Luckily, there are a few simple ways you can remove them. Use Your Keyboard or the Context Menu You can quickly delete a slide in Google Slides by using the Delete key on your keyboard or by selecting the Delete option from the context menu....

It is important to note that files and directories deleted using rm and rmdir do not get moved to the Trash. They are immediately removed from your computer. If you accidentally delete files using these commands, the only way you’ll be able to restore them is from a backup. How to Remove Files with rm The simplest case is deleting a single file in the current directory. Type the rm command, a space, and then the name of the file you want to delete....

Solving math problems becomes easier with the new Math Solver feature in Microsoft Edge. However, if you don’t plan to use it, you can disable or remove it easily. Here’s how. Edge Browser Minus Math Solver At the time of writing in June 2021, “Math Solver” is still in the Preview stage and is available by default in Microsoft Edge 91. When you click on it, a sidebar opens on the right side to let you clip and drop math formulas or type one in there....

YouTube’s dark mode provides an easier-on-the-eyes viewing experience. It’s particularly nice when watching videos in the dark or at night. YouTube’s dark theme is available on the YouTube website and in YouTube’s mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Enable Dark Mode On the Web On YouTube’s desktop website, click your profile icon found in the top-right corner of the page. Then select the “Appearance: Device Theme” option in the menu....

Discord has plenty of features for gamers and community builders, but if you don’t see the features you need, you’ll need to add a bot. If you’re a bot developer yourself, you may want to enable Discord’s developer mode first. Developer mode enables certain additional information in the Discord client, such as channel and message IDs for your server. If you’re developing a bot to monitor and post in a certain channel, for instance, you’ll need this information to point the bot in the right direction....

If you have a network printer connected to your Windows 10 PC and you’d like to configure or troubleshoot it, you will have to find your printer’s IP address. Here are several ways to do it. If you have installed the drivers for your printer on your PC already, use the Control Panel method to find the printer’s IP address. If you have yet to install your printer, use the router method below—or you can potentially check the printer itself....

By default, whenever you click the Start menu in Windows 11, you’ll see a “Recommended” section that includes a list of files and folders you’ve opened recently. Here’s how to turn that off. First, open Settings. You can find it pinned to the Start menu and click the gear icon, or you can press Windows+i on your keyboard to bring it up. In Settings, locate the sidebar and click “Personalization....

Many times, symbols can be better visuals than letters or numbers. If you want to insert a check mark symbol into your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, it takes only a few clicks. While you can certainly use interactive checkboxes for things like creating a checklist in Microsoft Excel, you don’t always need that extra step or added work. You can simply place a checkmark next to something like a completed task, fulfilled order, or confirmed data....

Adding your signature to a Microsoft Word document is the ultimate way to personalize it as your own, especially for documents like letters or contracts. If you want to add a signature to a Word document, here’s how. There are several ways to add your signature to a Word document. You can add a signature line for a post-print signature, add a digital signature, or insert your own handwritten signature as a picture....

Display Zoom Versus Accessibility Zoom You do have another option to magnify your app and that’s Display Zoom. The feature is a handy one but does have limitations. With Display Zoom, you magnify everything on your screen, from your Home screen and Dock to the apps you use. You cannot turn it off and on as easily, change the magnification level, or use a smaller window instead of full screen....

Windows 10’s taskbar clock can display the precise time down to the second. This feature requires a registry hack to enable, and only works on Windows 10. Windows 7 users will instead need a third-party utility like T-Clock Redux to do this instead. Early beta versions of the taskbar clock did show seconds. However, this caused performance problems in the ’90s, and the feature was removed before the release of Windows 95....