The Windows Registry offers a treasure trove of possible tweaks for your PC, but it’s a complicated structure to work in. You can make things a little easier by bookmarking your favorite locations. RELATED: Learning to Use the Registry Editor Like a Pro Adding favorites in the Registry is another of those super simple tips that people may have noticed, but rarely seem to make use of. As usual, we have to caution you about reading up on working with the Registry if you’re new to it and backing up the Registry (and your computer) before making changes....

Tactile feedback from a touch screen keyboard is crucial, in my opinion, but I don’t like sounds when I tap keys. You may not be like me—maybe sounds are your thing, but vibration is annoying. Or maybe you dislike both (you rebel!). The good news is that you not only enable or disable both of these features in Google Keyboard, but you can also adjust each of them. Here’s how....

Your iPhone or iPad has a physical switch on its side, which can be used to mute the device so you’re not disturbed while you’re trying to work, sleep, or in a movie theater. Truth be told, this switch is great, and it’s unfortunate that more device manufacturers don’t include them on their products. It’s annoying to have to unlock your phone and mute the volume through the software interface....

Changing the default application for most files in OS X is easy. OS X also allows you to choose your default web browser and email client, but these options are hidden in a place you might not expect. Some browsers and email clients may offer to automatically become your default when you first launch them, but if they don’t–or if you want to change it later–you’ll have to find OS X’s settings for these....

Whether your favorite Disney character is Baby Yoda, Elsa, or even Mickey Mouse, you can change your Disney+ profile picture to match. Here’s how to set a new avatar from your web browser or the mobile app for iPhone, iPad, or Android. If you haven’t already, make sure you log into Disney+ on your computer or download the mobile app for iOS/iPadOS or Android before going forward. That will be the initial step before you can change your profile picture....

One of the more irritating problems with the Windows command prompt is that you can’t paste anything into the window using the keyboard easily—it requires using the mouse. Here’s how to fix that problem. The solution, as with many Windows shortcomings, is to use a quick AutoHotkey script to enable pasting from the keyboard. What it actually does is take the clipboard contents and use the SendInput function to send the keystrokes really quickly to the console window....

Say someone sent you a Word document with a lot of images, and you want you to save those images on your hard drive. You can extract images from a Microsoft Office document with a simple trick. If you have a Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), or PowerPoint (.pptx) file with images or other files embedded, you can extract them (as well as the document’s text), without having to save each one separately....

Fantastic Shortcuts and Where to Find Them Once you find a shortcut you like, installing it on your iPhone or iPad just takes a couple of taps. There are several shortcut communities and resources online. Below are some of our favorite shortcut sources: r/Shortcuts: This subreddit is the biggest shortcuts community online (over 175,000 members). You’ll find amazing shortcuts, discussions, and support for creating your own. MacStories Shortcuts Archive: Known for easy-to-use shortcuts that accomplish complex tasks....

You’d think call forwarding would be an easy thing to set up on your iPhone. While it isn’t really complicated, how you enable it depends on whether your phone provider uses the GSM or CDMA standard. If you use a GSM network, like AT&T or T-Mobile, you can do it right from your phone settings. If it’s CDMA, like Verizon or Sprint, you’ll need to type carrier codes on your phone’s keypad....

Writing a Build Configuration The CI/CD pipeline featured here works pretty simply. GCP listens for changes in your source control, either new commits on a specific branch, or new pull requests. Then, it sends the source to Cloud Build, which runs a set of commands to test and build the application, and sends the output build artifacts over to App Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, or a Cloud Storage bucket. Most of the configuration for Cloud Build actually happens outside of Cloud Build, in a YAML file called cloudbuild....

Microsoft Office allows you to add more functionality through add-ins. Many modern add-ins also work with Office for iPad, Office Online, and Office for Mac–not just traditional desktop versions of Office for Windows. Add-ins are available for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, and SharePoint. They allow you to do everything from translate text or search the web to schedule a meeting at Starbucks and call an Uber. How to Get Office Add-ins RELATED: A Free Microsoft Office: Is Office Online Worth Using?...

We all have a few large chunks of text we have to type regularly–like your address, long names or phrases, or even tables and images you use often. The AutoText feature in Word allows you to store these chunks of text and quickly insert them with a few keystrokes, so you can waste less time typing. The AutoText feature has been part of Office for a long time, but is now part of Quick Parts, which was added to Office 2007....

You probably don’t do a lot of multitasking on your PlayStation 4, but sometimes you just need to flip back and forth between a pair of apps (or an app and a game). Fortunately, there’s a fast and easy way to do this. RELATED: What’s the Difference Between the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Slim, and PlayStation 4 Pro? Before we get into it, however, I want to point one thing out: you still can’t use this to jump between games....

When you sign into Windows 8 or 10 using your Microsoft account (and other Microsoft devices, like an Xbox), those devices become associated with your account. If you want to remove an old device you’ve gotten rid of, you’ll have to pay a visit to Microsoft’s account web site. RELATED: All the Features That Require a Microsoft Account in Windows 10 Windows 8 and 10 both allow you to sign into your computer using either a Microsoft account or a local account....

Notepad is a basic but useful text editor that’s been included in Windows in some form since the beginning. You’ve probably customized Notepad for the way you work, but now you want to reset Notepad to its default settings. No worries. It’s easy, and we’ll show you how. You can customize the default font, font style, and font size in Notepad, enable or disable word wrap and the status bar, as well as change the size and position of the Notepad window....

If you haven’t ripped your music CDs to audio files on your computer yet, it’s not too late. All it takes is a CD drive and a bit of time. When you’re done, your physical music collection will become your digital music collection. You can then listen to that music on your computer or copy it over to your smartphone. There are even many free services that will let you store that music online and stream it from anywhere....

Smartphones still don’t have Internet connections everywhere — and, even if they did, there are times you’ll want to save a copy of a web page. Modern iPhones and Android phones allow you to save copies of web pages so you can refer to them later. If you want a copy of a full web page, save it as a PDF. This is ideal for receipts, tickets, maps, and anything with just more than text....

Sort Feed by Most Recent in Facebook’s New Design If you haven’t already enabled the new Facebook Desktop interface, most should have the option to upgrade and switch over right now. This new design will probably replace the current Facebook interface in the future. But for now, most accounts are able to change back and forth between the two interfaces at any time. To sort your Facebook feed by most recent, start by going to Facebook’s website in any desktop browser and log in to your account....

When you type in Word, paragraphs flow smoothly from one page to the next, and page breaks are automatically inserted when needed. However, what if you want to keep a certain paragraph together and not split the paragraphs between two pages? There’s a simple fix for this. Why not just insert a manual page break before the paragraph? As you edit the document, other page break locations will change, and that manual page break may cause some strange pagination....

When someone calls my iPhone, it rings, as you’d expect. But so do my Mac and my iPad. It sounds like a teenage band at their first rehearsal: everyone’s trying to play the same tune, but they’re not doing it at the same time. While I get how this feature could be convenient, I’ve never answered a phone call from my Mac. I’ve always just picked up my iPhone. If you’re in the same boat, it might be worth turning it off....