Windows users have learned over the years that they need to keep their computers defragmented to keep running at top speed. While Windows Vista and 7 automatically defrag your disks, here’s some ways you can dig deeper into Windows Defragmenter. Windows Disk Defragmenter was turned into a very stripped down utility in Windows Vista and 7. In fact, Vista’s Disk Defragmenter didn’t even let you select the disks to defragment until it was updated in Service Pack 1....

LEGO Holiday Ornaments Why limit yourself to using your LEGO blocks to recreate your favorite Dr. Who scenes? Visit the link above to grab LEGO building templates and crank out LEGO block ornaments. You can mix up the colors to make your ornaments as festive or Darth Vader’esque as you’d like. Slice Up Some Star Wars Snowflakes Speaking of Darth Vader, if regular snowflakes are two boring for your Christmas party these Star Wars snow flakes might be just the right bit of décor....

When we think of the Old West, we remember how wild and dangerous it was and the opportunities it provided. The internet really isn’t much different. Let’s analyze the similarities and consider how we can tame the wild, wild web. Growth and Development (Image Credit: Map of the Internet, XKCD) The Wild West in America represented the attempt by people to move out and find opportunity, to tame the wild areas of the frontier, and to find and utilize natural resources....

Not sure you love the touch bar? Maybe you mostly just don’t love what’s on it. No worries: that’s easy to change. I’ve long had a troubled relationship with the top rows of keys on the Mac. Some, such as the volume and brightness toggles, I use constantly; others, like the Mission Control and the Launchpad, I’ve never touched. There were ways to swap out these key’s functions for something else, if I decided to put these buttons to work, but they depended on third party software and often didn’t work consistently....

The new version of Office comes complete with SkyDrive integration, but sadly SkyDrive is the default save location. Here’s how to make your Office apps save documents to your PC by default instead of SkyDrive. How to Change the Default Save Location for Office 2013 Open any one of the office programs and click on the File menu item. Then click on Options. Now head into the Save settings....

Photoshop may be the professional standard for high quality photo prints, but that doesn’t mean you have to pay hundreds of dollars for printing software. Freeware program Google Picasa can create excellent quality photo prints that’ll only cost you a download. Picasa and other freeware graphics programs are hardly news to savvy geeks, although with a little patience, they can produce quality prints few could tell apart from thousand dollar graphics suites....

We’ve covered a lot of Windows tweaks over the years, and today we’re going to show you how to customize the look of your folders in Windows Explorer to add a background image or change the folder icons. This guest article was written by our friend Ciprian from 7Tutorials, who also authored the Microsoft Press book covering networking Windows 7. Be sure to check out his web site for some interesting Windows 7 content....

Wouldn’t it be great to use your Android lock screen to turn on your flashlight, jump to your camera, and otherwise make accessing your phone and information on it lightening fast? Read on as we show you how. What You Need Smartphone locks screens, Android and otherwise, are woefully underutilized. Where all manner of information widgets and quick-access buttons could reside there’s usually nothing but the lock slider and/or security interface....

In Safari 14.0 and higher on the Mac, the Tab Preview feature lets you peek into the web page by hovering your cursor over the tab. If you find this annoying, you can disable it using Terminal. Here’s how. Apple added the Tab Preview feature in the macOS Big Sur update, but it’s also available for macOS Catalina users who have updated to the latest version of Safari. Usually, Apple adds a toggle in the Preferences for disabling the newly added features, but there’s no such option available for Tab Preview....

Do you store sensitive files on Dropbox or another cloud storage service? Encrypt them with EncFS for Linux, an encrypting file system that transparently encrypts and decrypts each individual file with your encryption key. There’s also an experimental Windows build. EncFS works differently from a TrueCrypt container, which stores your encrypted files in a single large file. Instead, EncFS creates separate files for each file you add. It works better with cloud storage services that would re-upload the entire TrueCrypt container each time it’s changed....

Windows Photo Viewer was first released with Windows XP. Despite being ancient in software terms, it still holds up pretty well in Windows 11. If you want to keep using it, you can — it isn’t even hard. Here’s how you can enable Windows Photo Viewer. How to Enable Windows Photo Viewer on Windows 11 There isn’t normally a way to use Windows Photo viewer in Windows 11. The software is still included in the operating system, but it is completely disabled....

Monitoring the resource usage of your Kubernetes cluster is essential so you can track performance and understand whether your workloads are operating efficiently. The kubectl top command streams metrics directly from your cluster, letting you access the basics in your terminal. This command won’t usually work straightaway in a fresh Kubernetes environment. It depends on the Metrics Server addon being installed in your cluster. This component collects metrics from your Nodes and Pods and provides an API to retrieve the data....

We’ve already shown you how to use the BitDefender Rescue CD to clean your infected PC, but what if you wanted to achieve the same thing only without a CD over the network? In this guide, we’ll show you how. Image by baronsquirrel Prerequisites It is assumed that you have already setup the FOG server as explained in our “What Is Network Booting (PXE) and How Can You Use It?...

The Impact of a Data Breach Data breaches happen when there’s a weakness in security leading to the exposure of private data. Sometimes it is an inside job. Staff may make a mistake, or harbor a grudge and maliciously release data, or someone might be a whistleblower. But data breaches are most commonly caused by cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks, hacktivist campaigns, doxxing attacks, and industrial espionage can all lead to data breaches....

If your PC is infected with the Win 7 Anti-Spyware 2011 malware or something similar, you’ve come to the right place, because we’re going to show you how to get rid of it, and free your PC from the awful clutches of this insidious malware (and many others) Win 7 Anti-Spyware 2011 is just one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live, Advanced Virus Remover, Internet Security 2010, Security Tool, and others that hold your computer hostage until you pay their ransom money....

When you create a folder on an iPhone or iPad, Apple automatically gives the folder a name. As these names aren’t always fitting, you’ll likely want to change them. Here’s how you can rename folders on your devices. Create a Folder Although Apple allows you to manage your apps by moving them to various home screens, folders make it much easier to organize the dozens of apps on your device....

Podcasts are a great way to pass the time on long drives, or during long bouts of tedious work. But podcasts can often consume a lot of space rather quickly, so it’s good to know how to best manage them. You probably don’t even realize this is happening. You just subscribe to more and more podcasts without realizing that they automatically download episodes. The next thing you know, you’re receiving low storage warnings on your device....

Why Would You Want to Cap Your FPS? This feature is particularly useful on Windows gaming laptops with NVIDIA hardware, as you can stop your GPU from running as fast as it can. This will save battery power and reduce heat consumption, letting you game for longer when you’re away from a power outlet. You might also find the cap useful to reduce screen tearing in games. You can try setting the maximum FPS to your display’s refresh rate if you don’t have a G-Sync or FreeSync-enabled monitor with variable refresh rates....

While Microsoft 365 subscribers can do real-time collaboration on PowerPoint presentations, some people prefer working independently and having that work reviewed and edited at a later date. Here’s how you can see and track what changed when the presentation comes back to you. To track the changes that the reviewer of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation made, you’ll need these two things: A copy of the source file A copy of the reviewed file...

Tethering your phone’s internet connection, which allows users to share their phone’s data connection with other devices, is really useful if you’re out and about with no Wi-Fi, but some carriers block the feature from your phone. If you get an error message when you try to tether—something like “Account not set up for tethering”—here’s a fix. I know this is a touchy subject, and there are two sides to this argument....