Windows 8 introduced privacy settings and Windows 10 adds a bunch more. If you are interested in protecting your privacy while using Windows 10, you’re going to want to read further. In Windows 8.1, you could access the Privacy options from the PC settings, which contain five categories: General, Location, Webcam, Microphone, and Other devices. Windows 10 greatly increases the number of privacy options to twelve. In some cases, you can disable many things ahead of time by using the customized setup versus the express....

The PowerCfg command is a hidden tool on Windows. Beyond just tweaking power-management settings, it can generate some sophisticated HTML reports on Windows 7, 8, and 10. To use this tool, open an administrator Command Prompt window. On Windows 8, 8.1, or 10, right-click in the bottom-left corner of the screen or press Windows Key + X and select Command Prompt (Admin). On Windows 7, locate the Command Prompt shortcut in the Start menu, right-click it, and select Run as Administrator....

What Is OLED? OLED stands for organic light-emitting diode or organic LED. To generate light or produce an image, an OLED display must pass an electrical current through organic electroluminescent material. Displays that can generate light without the need for a backlight are called “self-emissive” displays. Self-emissive means that the organic materials used in construction generate light without any need for additional backlighting. This is different from other types of displays like LCDs, which require a separate light at the back of the display stack....

You may have misplaced a Wi-Fi password, but your laptop probably remembers it if you’ve connected in the past. If not, you can always grab the password from your router itself or reset the Wi-Fi passphrase and set a new one. These tricks allow you to recover the passphrase to any network that your laptop can connect to. You can then easily log into those networks from other devices or share the password with your friends....

When your documents are mainly text only in nature, then it would seem like the file sizes for .docx and .pdf versions should be fairly similar when saved, but that is not always the case. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s questions about the large difference in file sizes. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

Kubernetes has become one of the most popular ways to run containerized workloads in production. It simplifies deploying, scaling, and maintaining the containers that run your service. Kubernetes has arguably been less impactful in the arena of local development. It’s common for developers to build and test new services using plain Docker containers, perhaps arranged into stacks with Docker Compose. Running a local Kubernetes cluster is often seen as an extra layer of complexity and overheads....

Looking for a good video meeting service for your small business? RingCentral Video has a great free product that stacks up well against competitors like Zoom. Because meetings are often longer than 40 minutes. RingCentral has been around for a long time as a great VoIP phone system for small businesses and a powerful fax service, but they’ve more recently started offering their video call system as a standalone product, and it’s really worth a look....

Here’s How Often Popular Products Go On Sale Telling you to wait is one thing, but how long? And which products are worth waiting for? To give you a sense of how often products go on sale, we analyzed sale data between October 5, 2021 and October 5, 2022. (As such, in the charts below, the “Sales” column represents how many sales a particular product had in that 1-year window.)...

How to Take a Screenshot on Android Let’s start with the basics. As you’ll see later in this article, there are multiple ways to take screenshots on some Android devices. However, there is one way to take a screenshot on Android that works on practically all Android devices across the board. Simply press and hold the Power Button + Volume Down until the screen flashes. If the screenshot was taken, you’ll see a small preview thumbnail in the corner of the screen....

Speech Recognition is Just a Magic Trick It can’t use contextual clues to make the best guess, or even use an understanding of similar topics to inform its decisions. It isn’t hard to trip up voice assistants either. While you can ask Alexa “Do you work for the NSA?” and get an answer, if you ask “Are you secretly part of the NSA?” you get an “I don’t know that one” response (at least at the time of this writing)....

FTP is Old, and It’s Time to Move On File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around for over 50 years now, first introduced April 16, 1971 in RFC 959. It’s been a bedrock protocol of the Internet, allowing easy network file transfers across computer platforms, for most of its lifespan. For the past several decades, computer security experts have generally advised people to avoid FTP whenever possible. By default, FTP sends login information as unencrypted plain text, which means it can be easily intercepted....

Firefox 91 Enhanced Cookie Clearing Using its new method of handling cookies, Firefox Strict Mode can prevent hidden privacy violations and allow you to see which websites are storing information on your computer. When you elect to forget a website, Firefox will automatically delete all cookies, supercookies, and any other data stored on your machine. With traditional cookie deletion techniques, third-party cookies can sometimes stick around when you try to delete them....

Mac keyboards have Option and Command keys where standard PC keyboards have Alt and Windows keys. The keyboards are otherwise pretty similar, but new Mac users will need to understand these different keys. Apple’s Mac keyboards actually do have a Control (Ctrl) key, but the Control key doesn’t function like the Control key on Windows. Keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C to copy text won’t work. The Command Key The Command key doesn’t do anything on its own....

Alternative text (alt text) allows screen readers to capture the description and read it aloud, providing aid for those with visual impairments. Here’s how to add alt text to an object in PowerPoint. Adding Alt Text to Objects in PowerPoint As sophisticated as screen readers are, they still aren’t sophisticated enough to comprehend what an object is or what an image represents without the help of alt text. RELATED: How to Make Your Computer Read Documents to You...

One big feature of the Nest Thermostat is the ability to automatically adjust the temperature for you by learning your patterns over time. But if you’d rather have total manual control over the Nest, here’s how to add some quick and easy temperature presets to your phone’s home screen. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat This is particularly useful if you’re always changing the thermostat to the same temperatures....

It may seem like a simple thing, but changing your password is a fact of life, and knowing how to do it is something we here at How-To Geek generally take for granted, but the question is: do you know how to change your password? Changing your password regularly may not be the best course of action, but changing it to something strong and hard to crack or guess is....

By default, when you download something using Internet Explorer, it gets saved the main Downloads folder for your user account. If you’d rather save your files somewhere else, you can change the default save folder. Here’s how to do it. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button on the right side of the toolbar and then click “View Downloads” on the drop-down menu. In the View Downloads window, click the Options link at the bottom....

Although automatic updates are enabled by default on the new Apple TV, it’s useful to know how to check your tvOS version number and manually update it. Read on as we show you how. Note: This tutorial applies to the 2015 4th-generation Apple TV hardware update and the subsequent updates running tvOS. Why Do I Want To Do This? RELATED: How to Set Up and Configure Your Apple TV...

Your iPhone keeps a history of recent calls you’ve made and received. For the most part, this list is pretty handy. If you favor privacy, though, it’s easy enough to delete individual calls from your iPhone’s call history or even clear the whole recent calls list at once. Here’s how to do it. Start by opening up your Phone app. In the Phone app, switch to the Recents tab to view your call history and then click Edit in the upper right corner....

You’ve set up a worksheet, when you realize it would look better if the rows and columns were reversed. There’s no need to re-enter all that data. Just use Excel’s Transpose feature. Select the cells containing the headings and data you want to transpose. Click the “Copy” button or press Ctrl+C to copy the selected cells. Click a blank cell where you want to copy the transposed data. The cell you select becomes the top, left corner of whatever you’re copying....