What You’ll Need To use the Media Creation Tool, you need a PC running Windows 10 or 11 as well as a USB drive that is eight gigabytes or larger. An external solid-state drive (SSD) or external hard disk drive (HDD) would also suffice. RELATED: How Create a USB Flash Drive Installer for Windows 10, 8, or 7 Creating a Bootable USB Drive Microsoft provides an application to automatically create a bootable Windows 11 USB drive on their website....
Near-Field Communication, or NFC, is an incredibly useful technology that gets ignored far too often. While it can be used for advanced automation of things on your Android phone, it can also be used for equally simplistic stuff, like easily sharing your home Wi-Fi data with friends. RELATED: What is NFC (Near Field Communication), and What Can I Use It For? What You’ll Need NFC, as we’ve discussed before, allows you to tap your phone to an NFC-enabled object—like a pastic “tag”—and have it perform a certain action on your phone....
We have all had to connect to a network share at some point only to have the authentication dialog pop up. There are many ways around it, for example mapping a network drive, but if you have a lot of users connecting to copy some files you may want to disable the password dialog instead of distributing your password. Disabling Password Protected Sharing If you try to connect to any modern Windows OS that’s hosting a network share you will probably be greeted with an authentication dialog....
Messing around in the Windows Registry can cause all kinds of problems if you’re not careful. If you share your PC with others, you can prevent less experienced users from accessing and editing the Registry. When you share a PC with other people, it can be really helpful to lock down certain aspects of Windows. For example, we’ve talked about how to prevent users from shutting down Windows and how to disable the Control Panel and settings interface....
Chrome’s “Reading List” is a convenient way to save pages and articles for later. However, if you’re not interested in the feature, the permanent button in the Bookmarks Bar can be annoying. We’ll show you how to remove it. The Reading List is simply a place to save pages to read later. It’s a similar concept to services like Pocket but built right into the Chrome web browser. On iPhone and iPad, the Reading List is easy to ignore if you don’t use it, but on the desktop, it takes up space in the Bookmarks Bar....
Do you have a song stuck in your head? Did you listen to a new song and now you’re humming it? Do you just remember a few words from that song? Or even better, are you currently listening to the song? In either case, you’re in luck, because we have got a list of utilities that can help you identify a new song you’ve heard! There can be two situations in which this method is applicable....
You have an iOS device like an iPhone or iPad, you have a printer, and you want to print things—the only problem is your printer isn’t AirPrint compatible. No problem, read on as we show you how to print to older printers. In the fall of 2010 Apple released the iOS 4.2 update that included a host of updated features including support for a new mobile/wireless printing protocol AirPrint. At the time there were barely a dozen HP printers that supported the service and even though the number has grown and includes a handful of offerings from the major printing companies there are still thousands upon thousands of printers—old and new—that do not support AirPrint....
If your copy of Google Chrome has taken on a sudden and inexplicable hatred for Shockwave Flash, we’re here to help. Read on as we show you how to tame Chrome and get it to play nice with Flash. RELATED: How to Troubleshoot Google Chrome Crashes More so than other browsers, Google Chrome is particularly susceptible to a specific but not uncommon situation in which it simply will not coexist peacefully with Adobe Flash—frequent slow downs and annoying crashes are common as a result....
Gmail’s redesign is now mandatory — the opt-out option is gone. Use a third-party style sheet to get the old Gmail look back or tweak Gmail’s settings to undo some of the changes. If you like the new look, that’s great – but if you don’t, you have a choice. The options here will help Gmail look more like the webmail system you’re used to. Install a Style Sheet “The Return of Old Gmail” is an unofficial user style (custom style sheet) that makes Gmail look like the original....
The upcoming version of OS X, also known as “Lion”, has a new feature that many people hate—scrolling on the trackpad is reversed, just like an iPad or iPhone. If you want this feature in Windows, it’s as simple as can be. To accomplish this, we’ll be using AutoHotkey, a very simple but powerful scripting language for Windows. Luckily for you, we’ve done all the work, so there’s nothing to do but make the script for yourself....
When working on a document in Word, you may find that you need to insert text from another Word document. Maybe you’re collaborating with others and combining multiple pieces, for example. RELATED: How to Collaborate on Documents in Real-Time in Office 2016 There is a better way to collaborate on documents in Office 2016, but there may be times when a fellow collaborator needs to work offline and they send you a document to integrate into the main document....
Flash may not be important in the future – but a lot of websites want it today. If you’re not ready to give up Flash just yet, you can install Flash on your Nexus 7, even if Adobe doesn’t approve. Bear in mind that Adobe hasn’t “certified” the Flash Player for Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) – it’s not guaranteed to work properly and you may see some bugs. Adobe is discontinuing development of Flash for Android....
Have you come across an interesting Facebook page that you think your friends would like? If so, invite your friends to like that page so they all see the page’s content in their news feed. Here’s how to do that on Facebook on desktop and mobile. Know that you can only invite your friends to like a Facebook page. If you want to invite someone who is not your friend, you will have to add them as a friend first....
There are some websites like Netflix or Twitter that you might want to turn into “apps” with a direct Dock icon on your Mac. Using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, it’s easy to do. Here’s how. How Does It Work? Both Chrome and Microsoft Edge are built on the same Chromium engine, and they offer a unique feature that lets you create a Dock shortcut for any website. But both browsers do it differently....
When you have guests over who want to use your Wi-Fi, Eero makes it really simple to create a guest network for them to connect to. That way they can get internet access, but they won’t be able to access your local network files or other devices. RELATED: How to Set Up the Eero Home Wi-Fi System This is particularly useful if you share files over your home’s network that might contain sensitive information....
If you’ve just updated to Ubuntu 12.04, you may notice an option missing in its system menu. The Hibernate option is now hidden by default, but you can get it back if you prefer to hibernate your system. Hibernate is disabled by default because it can cause problems on some system configurations. You should perform a hibernate with a special command to test that it works properly before re-enabling it....
If you use Linux, you know how useful the command line can be for working with files, installing software, and launching programs. But it can be even more efficient if you run multiple commands at once. Combining two or more commands on the command line is also known as “command chaining”. We’ll show you different ways you can combine commands on the command line. RELATED: 10 Basic Linux Commands for Beginners...
Using Instagram’s selfie stickers feature, you can create a short, expressive, animated sticker. You can record your expression or use an animated emoji overlay (with hearts, laughter emoji, and more). This feature is available with Instagram’s cross-platform messaging update that brought the ability to message Facebook friends to Instagram DMs. You can get this update from the Settings menu in your Instagram app for iPhone or Android. RELATED: How to Message a Facebook Friend From Instagram...
Of course, this technique is meant for real servers, but if you’ve got a Linux box sitting in your house acting as a home server, you can use it there as well. In fact, since many home ISPs block regular outbound email, you might find this technique a great way to ensure you still get administration emails, even from your home servers. Overview Configuring the Email sending ability for a machine immediately gives us the upshot that a lot of the system’s administration problems and critical alerts will be automatically sent to that system’s designated administrator....
Tired of getting robocalls all day long on your iPhone? Your iPhone lets you silence the harassment by turning on a feature called “Silence Unknown Callers” in Settings. Here’s how to do it. What Is an Unknown Caller? On your iPhone, an “unknown caller” is someone who is not in your Contacts list, which is an address book stored on your device that can be accessed through the Phone or Contacts apps....
